eShadow is an £8.5 million project - including £4.1 million in Government grant funding - aiming to develop a lightweight chassis design for electric commercial that significantly improves payload capacity without compromising durability or cost-effectiveness.

Listen to this in-depth interview with late Professor Alan Banks, to whom we dedicate this episode. As UK Lightweight Innovations Manager at Ford, he had a central role in this project, and he is sorely missed.

More information, and a video about the project, is available to watch here: https://www.apcuk.co.uk/impact/case-studies/ford-lighter-chassis-stronger-performance/

The APC, on behalf of the Automotive Council UK, has updated its roadmaps for 2024.

The highly-anticipated documents chart a path to a net-zero future, and give clarity to help you navigate through where the innovations will be in the next decade and beyond.

Reporting from Cenex Expo, the UK auto industry's showcase of zero-emission and connected automated mobility, Clem Silverman asked people why it's important to look ahead and how useful roadmapping exercises are to the industry.

Including:

Jon Caine, Technical Director for AVL in the UK

Claire Spooner, Director of Mobility at Innovate UK

Will Grocott, Head of Delivery at the National Composites Centre

Mili Naik, Technical Delivery Lead at Zenzic

Dr Hadi Moztarzadeh, Head of Technology Trends at the APC explains that for 2024, collectively we identified the need to introduce two system-level roadmaps, the Mobility of People (MoP) and the Mobility of Goods (MoG), to provide a holistic view of the role of automotive products in the broader transport ecosystem.

Listen to this episode to discover what the roadmaps cover, and who they are for. Discover the roadmaps now by visiting https://www.apcuk.co.uk/knowledge-base/roadmaps/

What happens to an EV battery when it reaches the end of its life? It's re-born!

The destiny of batteries is not landfill, but to be recycled to extract the critical minerals and go into new products.

Although in its infancy, this is an industry with an exciting future ahead of it. On reaching end-of-life, batteries can be discharged, dismantled and shredded to produce black mass, a rich source of critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese. If profitably extracted and processed, we can de-risk the UK’s battery supply chain and support the creation of a self-sustaining, globally competitive industry.

In 2022, Altilium Clean Technology, a leading company operating in this space, secured funding, delivered through our own Automotive Transformation Fund, to advance it’s game-changing, proprietary recycling technology.

Listen to this interview with Dr Christian Marston, President and COO of Altilium, about how the company is pushing ahead with its hydrometallurgical extraction technique to recover over 95% of the critical metals found in black mass.