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Ilika leading £8M project on high silicon content electrode SSBs for EVs

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BMW Group and WAE Technologies will join the project’s steering committee. At BMW Group we have more than 13 years of automotive battery cell development experience. —Georg Steinhoff, Head of R&D at BMW Motorsport Ltd. Ilika will receive a grant of £2.8

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€26M ZEFER project to introduce 180 fuel cell electric vehicles into fleets in Paris, Brussels and London

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The European ZEFER (Zero Emission Fleet vehicles for European Roll-out) project will deploy large fleets of 60 hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in each of three European capitals (Paris, London and Brussels). One hundred seventy FCEVs will be operated as taxi or private-hire vehicles, and the remaining 10 will be used by the police.).

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AMTE Power launches ‘Power Up’ project to develop ultra high-power battery cells for automotive

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UK-based AMTE Power has secured a project from the Government’s Faraday Battery Challenge, worth £1 million, to develop a higher energy density variant of its Ultra High-Power (UHP) lithium-ion cell, with support from Imperial College London for battery modeling. Earlier post.).

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Gordon Murray T.27 EV overall winner of 2nd annual Brighton to London RAC Future Car Challenge

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Overall winner of the second annual Brighton to London RAC (Royal Automotive Club) Future Car Challenge on 5 November was former Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray and his T.27 27 electric vehicle. Earlier post.). More than 65 low-emission vehicles —some not seen on UK roads before— completed the Challenge.

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BMW launches operations at Center of Urban Mobility Competence; boosting electromobility through EV sharing

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BMW Group has officially launched operations at its Center of Urban Mobility Competence, which it established earlier this year. At the same time, BMW also announced that 100 all-electric BMW i3 cars are now available for DriveNow car sharing customers in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. BMW i3 at DriveNow Berlin.

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UK BEV and PHEV registrations up 27% in 2017 to 46,522 units

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Go Ultra Low is a collaborative campaign and is the first of its kind, bringing together a consortium of vehicle manufacturers, government and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Meanwhile, the South West and Scotland grew the fastest, boosting plug-in uptake by 140% and 70% respectively against the previous year.

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JLR sees U.S. as key to good fortune for reborn Jaguar logo

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LONDON – Jaguar Land Rover sees the U.S. JLR is overhauling Jaguar through decreasing its type length and pushing the logo upper upmarket to compete with Bentley and Porsche rather of Mercedes-Benz and BMW. The corporate is dividing Jaguar Land Rover into what it phrases a Area of Manufacturers. ’ The post JLR sees U.S.