Ten UK universities are to appear in the University Showcase section at the Cenex-LCV2014 lo carbon vehicle community exhibition and conference.
They are: Loughborough, Warwick, De Montfort University, Sheffield, Sussex, Cranfield, Oxford Brookes, Imperial College London, Oxford University and the University of Bath.
All will display research and project work aimed at low-carbon vehicles – ranging from a web-based vehicle-to-grid interactive demonstrator to intelligent mobility vehicle applications.
In addition, the EPSRC (the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) will be showcasing research it sponsors in lightweight, composite materials for automotive applications, electric vehicles and power electronics, internal combustion engines, and vehicle energy storage and management systems.
Additionally, the Showcase will include the FUTURE Vehicle project (funded by EPSRC), which aims to gain a better understanding of the science behind vehicles of the future – demonstrating collaborative work between Loughborough University, Imperial College London, University of Sheffield, Cranfield University and Oxford University.
"The research that the 10 universities will present validates the academic excellence the UK has to offer the motor industry," comments Robert Evans, CEO of Cenex.
"We are pleased to support this new initiative and we are excited to be working with the Transport Community at the KTN and EPSRC to make it happen," he adds.
"The UK's research base and its universities are a fantastic source of new ideas and refinements from which industry can draw to grow and innovate," states Professor Philip Nelson, EPSRC's chief executive.
"Low carbon vehicles are, without doubt, an inevitable and very necessary next step for the automotive industries."
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