Our Roadmaps
The UK Automotive Council is well known for producing robust and detailed technology roadmaps that define potential routes for Automotive including Commercial Vehicles and Off-Road machinery and related products to achieve our UK environmental and societal goals. Roadmaps are a function of current knowledge and as new ideas and technologies emerge, must be regularly renewed. This exercise, led by the Advanced Propulsion Centre, has generated the fourth generation of these roadmaps.
Systems roadmaps
Published: 25/09/2024
Mobility of Goods
This roadmap provides a resource for automotive industrial strategy planning, helping to build synergies across its interfaces with the wider transport system.
Published: 25/09/2024
Mobility of People
This roadmap aims to highlight the current and future mobility landscape, highlighting key trends and drivers which are expected to shape automotive road transport for the movement of people.
Technology roadmaps
Published: 25/09/2024
Internal Combustion Engines (ICE)
ICE will remain at the forefront of technology to 2040 and beyond, but the fuels that they burn will change radically over this time period as we progress rapidly towards net zero.
Published: 25/09/2024
Electrical Energy Storage
The development of lithium-ion batteries has accelerated over recent years with many previously forecasted developments happening sooner than was considered feasible.
Published: 25/09/2024
Electric Machines
The demand for electric motors continues to increase as global legislation drives the adoption of low- and zero-emission vehicles requiring electrified powertrains.
Published: 25/09/2024
Power Electronics
Power electronics play a key role in the automotive sector, and will continue to do so especially as the sector transitions to a net zero future.
Published: 25/09/2024
Lightweight Vehicle and Powertrain Structures
Global events, supply-chain vulnerabilities and environmental concerns are prompting government and industry to change what materials are used and how they are sourced.
Published: 25/09/2024
Hydrogen Fuel Cell System and Hydrogen Storage
The advancement of technologies in this area has progressed rapidly in recent years, with policy and environment concerns driving the automotive industry to decarbonise.