Funded Projects

This project focused on the validation of the Hot Form Quench manufacturing process, which produces high-strength aluminium pressings, with reduced weight and simpler, stronger structures for vehicle bodies.

This project developed a semi-automated pilot production line and facility for advanced lightweight composites assembly to build on the UK’s expertise in lightweighting technology.

This projects will develop a hybrid powertrain and e-clutch for vehicles with manual gearboxes, using hybrid propulsion to enable engine downsizing, while retaining performance.

This project integrated the high-efficiency axial flux motor, cooling system and gearbox into a next generation fuel cell electric vehicle.

This project aims to develop a production-ready, innovative vehicle body electrical system, using powerline communications technology, to consolidate electrical architecture for weight reduction.

This project will develop the PODSweep - the UK's first autonomous electric road sweeper - created to reduce the harmful environmental impact created, while improving safety and productivity through the autonomous control system.

This project sought to characterise a new material technology that could not only act as a filter media in air cabin filtration systems, but also in vehicle after treatment exhaust systems.

The project will take a major step with disruptive high strength aluminium alloys, and processing and joining technologies, enabling new enclosure design concepts for the manufacture of both vehicle integration structures and battery enclosures.

This research project aims to develop a hybrid material structural engineering tool to promote lightweight design and verification for product development processes.

This project aims to develop stiffer and lighter body structures, through the research and development of composite materials, to enable mainstream electrification of common vehicle platforms.