Collaborative R&D Competitions
McLaren Applied – ESCAPE
Bringing Power Electronics capability home
The APC’s funding of this project ensures that a key component of moving to zero carbon electric vehicles – Silicon Carbide – has a supply chain in the UK and the technology and manufacture to ensure that change is made.
End-to-end Supply Chain Development for Automotive Power Electronics
Project Highlights
- Building a secure UK end-to-end supply chain capable of competing globally
- ESCAPE will produce game changing technology supporting the drive for electrification UK and worldwide
- Aligning the UK SiC supply chain to be capable of the end-to-end supply of materials and parts to support UK power electronics manufacturing
- Successful exploitation of ESCAPE will Result in further UK investment in SiC R&D and capital expenditure
- Total project value £19.5million, with £9.7 million funded through the APC
Project Consortium
- University of Warwick
- Clas-sic Wafer Fab Limited
- Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Limited
- Compound Semiconductor Centre Limited
- Lyra Electronics Limited
- Microchip Technology Ltd
- MaxPower Semiconductor Ltd
- Techworkshub Ltd
- Tribus-D Ltd
- Turbo Power Systems Limited
- Exawatt
- McLaren Applied Technologies Ltd