Automotive technologies: the UK’s current capability
Innovation for UK Automotive Success
How to Make a Difference
19th February 2015
Innovation
for UK
Automotive
Success
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s
current capability
• Reflect on the Automotive Industry UK
• Introduce the Automotive Council
• AC successes
• Roadmaps
• Opportunities – supported & collaborative
• How to engage and make a difference
• How to Make a Difference
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The Automotive
Industry
a major
Automotive
technologies: the
UK’s currentis
capability
contributor
to innovation and growth in the UK
 The result of great Industry and Government effort in recent years
 However – much work still remains to deliver sustainable success
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Strategic
Government
andcapability
Industry
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s current
partnership reversed Automotive decline
Background
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Job losses from closures in the early
2000s estimated at 95,000
•
Government policy promoted services
•
Manufacturing viewed as “sunset”
sector
Catalyst for Change
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Improved Government & Industry relationship promotes long term strategy
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2008 call for “market-driven industrial activism” leveraging government intervention
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Support existing strengths and sectors capable of sustained future growth
 Automotive is One of Eleven targeted Growth Sectors
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Joint Industry/Government
team
Automotive
technologies: the UK’s current capability
consensed
future Automotive vision
Outputs
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High-level roadmap on low carbon technology
•
Collaborative Academia/Industry R&D agenda
•
UK Automotive Capability Study
Recommendations
New Automotive
Innovation and
Growth Team
(NAIGT) Report 2009
•
Form an Office for Low Emission Vehicles
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Establish UK Automotive Council
•
Transform business environment in the UK
•
“Testbed UK” for large-scale technology trials
•
Develop detailed technology roadmaps
•
Develop a stronger supply base
2009 NAIGT report framed recommendations to secure the future
of UK Automotive Industry
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The Automotive
Council
the voice
Automotive
technologies: the
UK’s currentis
capability
of our
industry in the UK
Aims
•
Transformed business
environment
•
Compelling investment
proposition
•
Develop technology
roadmaps
•
Exploit UK opportunities
•
Stronger supply chain
•
Provide a public voice
Automotive Council provides an ongoing advisory & consultative
forum for Government and the Automotive Industry in the UK
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The Automotive
Council
is to
Automotive
technologies: the
UK’s currentgoal
capability
build long term
world class ‘research to manufacture’ capability
Fundamental
Research
Applied
Research
Development
Manufacture
Sustainable
Business
Re-investment
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€
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Strategic Investment
 Transform the business environment for the automotive industry
in the UK, providing a compelling investment proposition
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Success
: Innovate
UK
Low
Carbon
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s
current
capability
Vehicle
Innovation Platform (LCV IP)
“Innovate UK’s LCV IP invests jointly with industry and other funders in
interventions that promote UK-based R&D in low carbon vehicle technologies”
Significant
•
£206m million of Government investment to date, supporting a further £200m of private
investment
Targeted
•
Investment aligned to Automotive Council’s five Strategic Technologies
Coordinated
•
•
Leveraging co-investment from partners such as OLEV, BIS, DfT and EPSRC
Bringing together 288 unique partners from industry and academia
Active
•
•
•
•
194 projects funded to date
15 interventions so far, including the Integrated Delivery Programme (IDP)
2 large scale LCV demonstrators run (600+ vehicles), including Europe’s largest ever LCV trial
2 new competitions launched in 2014
 LCV IP has invested £206m of Government funding to date
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Success
: Innovate
UK
Low
Carbon
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s
current
capability
Vehicle
Integrated Delivery Programme (IDP)
The IDP is just one element of Innovate UK’s Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation
Platform (LCV IP)
Integrated
•
•
•
Innovation chain
Technology creation & adoption
Supply chain
Delivery
•
•
•
Growth of the UK automotive sector
Faster introduction of vehicle-centric technologies
Carbon reduction in domestic and international vehicle markets
Programme
•
•
•
Adaptive portfolio approach – “technologically agnostic”
Seeding and pull through of technology
Aligned R&D with industry , government, and research councils
129 Projects
Government funding
of £131.5 million
240 participants
 The IDP Platform channels BIS, DfT, OLEV and EPSRC support
into the five strategic technology areas
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Success
: UK automotive
strategy
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s current capability
for growth
and sustainability
Invest in innovation and technology:
•
•
£1 billion over 10 years in new Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)
Improve co-ordination / collaboration with academic research
Enhance supply chain competitiveness and growth:
•
•
£3m inward investment via Automotive Investment Organisation (AIO)
Improve access to finance via Banking/Industry framework
Invest in people – ensuring the right skills:
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UK Industry 5 year plan for 7,600 apprentices and 1,700 graduates
Attracting more young people, especially women, into automotive
Create competitive business environment for automotive:
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•
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Enhancing the UK’s flexible labour market & support free trade
Partnership between Auto Council, EU & local enterprise
Continued early market support for ultra-low carbon vehicles
 Sets out the collaborative activity that will secure the next stage
of automotive sector growth
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Success
: Advanced
Propulsion
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s current
capability
Centre open
for business
APC Vision : To position the UK as a global centre of excellence for low carbon
propulsion development and production.
•
Invest £1bn in promising products, processes
and people over the next 10 years.
•
Encourage collaboration between SMEs, vehicle
manufacturers and their suppliers.
•
Enable projects that drive investment in the UK.
•
Embed expertise and know-how.
•
Work with existing providers to deliver a complete
propulsion development infrastructure
•
Enable advanced propulsion technologies to be ready for
on and off road applications: turning technologies into
products.
•
The next generation of propulsion systems has yet to establish a supply
chain, not just in the UK, but internationally  Opportunity
 The APC will facilitate the industrialisation of new supply chains
in the UK
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Success
: Battery
Material
Scale-up
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s
current capability
Facility
and R&D Pilot Line at WMG

£13m investment (InnovateUK/Industry) in
a battery chemistry scale-up R&D pilot line

A facility to develop scale-up processes to
take new chemistries from button cell size
to power pack size

£5m capital plus £4m research revenue
from UK Government

£4m research revenue from industrial
collaborators

Includes Imperial, Oxford & St Andrews
Universities
Research
Performance
Manufacture
 Enables manufacture and test of single cell, modules, battery
packs through to complete powertrain.
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Success
: Technology
roadmaps
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s current
capability
to guide
Research and Development activities
• Cross industry teams
• Research challenges
• UK capability
• Automotive Council
consensus
• Five strategic technology themes where the UK could show
leadership through specialisation
Technology Roadmaps published at LCV2013 guide focus of UK
Automotive growth activity
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Roadmaps
: Living
pathways
to
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s
current capability
focus activity
What is a Technology Roadmap
• Advisory not directive
• Relative priorities
• Relative UK strengths
• Consensed
• Not precluding new ‘fundamental research’
• Currently preferred pathway, not the only pathway
• A living document
How do I use it ?
• Priorities recognised as technology and business challenges 
hence technology and business reward to those that overcome !
 The Automotive Council Roadmaps sign-post the consensed
industry technology priorities
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Application
Roadmap
: Commercial
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s current
capability
&
Off-Road Example
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Technology
Roadmap
: ICE
Example
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s current
capability
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The Automotive
Council
is to
Automotive
technologies: the
UK’s currentgoal
capability
build long term
world class ‘research to manufacture’ capability
Fundamental
Research
Applied
Research
Development
Manufacture
Sustainable
Business
Re-investment
€
Battery
Centre
£Xm
Xyrs
£206m
£500m
10yrs
£
¥
$
£3m
2yrs
Innovate
UKInvestment
APC
EPSRC
AIO+RGF+AMSCI
Strategic
Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
R&D Tax Credit
• Roadmaps for UK ‘Sticky Technologies’ focus ‘research to manufacture’ activity
 Strategic investments and interventions guided by roadmaps, are
accelerating critical technology development and growth
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Our roadmaps
into
a natural
Automotive
technologies:fall
the UK’s
current
capability
structure linking
Industrial Strategy to our Technical Challenges
WHY are
challenges and
future technologies
important ?
HOW will
future growth
and applications
be supported ?
Technology Challenge Areas
ICE
Lightweighting
Electrical
Machines
Energy
Storage
Intelligent
Mobility
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UK Automotive
R&D
Automotive
technologies: the
UK’s Technology
current capability
Advanced Internal
Combustion Engines
• Downsizing and
downspeeding
• Boost systems
• Flexible valve trains
• Electrification
• Integration of ICE and
e-machines
• Advanced Pm and
NOx emissions control
• High efficiency
combustion systems
• Advanced regenerative
cycles (target ɳ>60%)
• Thermal energy
recovery
• Lightweight structures
• Reduced friction
Electric Machines &
Power Electronics
• Lower cost of
manufacture/high
efficiency e-machines
• Recycling at high
volume
• Reduce material cost
• Alternatives to rare
earth magnets
• CAE optimisation of
electromagnetic,
thermal, mechanical,
NVH and control
• Higher power density
and lower cost/kW
• Integrated power
electronics package
Challenges
Energy Storage and
Energy Management
Lightweight Vehicle &
Powertrain Structures
Intelligent Transport
Systems
• Low cost battery
chemistries
• ‘Scale up’ technologies
• Battery system design
for efficient
• Thermal mgmt
• Packaging
• Safety
• Cost effective alternate
energy storage
• Battery and energy
management systems
• Lightweight structures
and interiors with low
cost of manufacture
• Light weight powertrain
including transmission;
driveline; and chassis
integration
• Low rolling resistance
tyres and brakes
• System integration for
lower system weight
• Connected and
autonomous vehicles,
systems & subsystems
• Sensors Actuators
• Software control
• Object recognition
• Decision algorithms
• Safety systems
• Human-Machine
interface & ITS/human
behaviour inter-action
• V2V/V2X technologies
• Traveller information
systems
• Freight logistics
• Business case
demonstration
 The industry seeks your involvement in solving these challenges
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Opportunity
forthe
supported
and collaborative
Automotive
technologies:
UK’s current capability
innovation for UK automotive success
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If you innovate in a ‘roadmap’ area, you’re delivering to an agreed
industry need
•
Increasing the chance of getting support, getting to market & getting
rewarded
•
Collaborative innovation
Have a
shared
goal
Helps
realize
others’
visions
Motivate
your own
team
Share
new ideas
Build on
others’
ideas
Buy-in
Engagement translates to success
 Enables you to find a better or alternate way to fulfil existing
functions and to find a new way to solve a problem
 Positive direct and indirect impact on your bottom line whatever
your motivation
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How totechnologies:
engage the
in UK’s
supported
and
Automotive
current capability
collaborative
innovation for UK automotive success
Stay knowledgeable about what your industry needs from you …
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Stay in touch with Automotive Council activities ( www.automotivecouncil.co.uk
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Understand, support and shape the roadmaps
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The funding competitions are aligned to the roadmaps across all TRLs  Collaborate!
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Other organisations and communities  Join and engage within the industry.
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Technology Workstreams  Get involved
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Industry Events  Attend and grow your network
Some important contacts:
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Research  EPSRC ( www.epsrc.ac.uk )
Demonstration  Innovate UK (www.innovateuk.org.uk)
Innovation  Catapult ( www.catapult.org.uk )
Industrialisation  APC ( www.apcuk.co.uk )
Networking  KTN ( www.ktn-uk.co.uk )
Investment  UKTI / AIO
 Engaging will help your organisation contribute to bringing UK
automotive success
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The Automotive
Council
is to
Automotive
technologies: the
UK’s currentgoal
capability
build long term
world class ‘research to manufacture’ capability
Fundamental
Research
Applied
Research
Development
Manufacture
Sustainable
Business
Re-investment
€ ¥
$
£
Battery
Centre
£Xm
Xyrs
£206m
£500m
10yrs
£3m
2yrs
Innovate UK
APC
EPSRC
AIO+RGF+AMSCI
Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
R&D Tax Credit
•
Opportunity to engage and contribute at every step to benefit from relevant funding,
networking, influence, impact, knowledge, process and skills benefits
•
Collaborative R&D funding competitions supporting roadmap technologies are central to
growth strategy
 Reaching out to others is an essential step to success
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Innovation
for UK
Automotive
Success
Automotive
technologies:
the UK’s
current capability

Industry is coming together in a new way to collaborate to bring new
technologies to market in innovative products

The Automotive Council has worked to build an improved business framework in
the UK, guided by technology roadmaps

Represents industry consensus following consultation with leading experts in
both business and technology - it's real and important !

Support mechanisms and collaboration opportunities are in place

Contact … Automotive Council, InnovateUK, KTN, EPSRC to engage and
benefit from the growth of our industry

Please join in and Make a Difference
 Opportunity to research, develop and deploy the critical
Automotive Technologies that the industry needs…
 Through an accelerated, collaborative and co-funded
process…
 In the UK . . . . . . . automotivecouncil.co.uk
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