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Tesla loses two more chip architects ahead of Autopilot 3.0 hardware launch

Earlier this month, Tesla claimed to have the ‘world’s most advanced computer for autonomous driving’ with its Autopilot 3.0 hardware update coming next year. Now we’ve learned that the automaker is losing two of the chip architects behind the project. Back in 2016, we first exclusively reported on Tesla quietly hiring legendary chip architect Jim Keller from AMD… Continue reading Tesla loses two more chip architects ahead of Autopilot 3.0 hardware launch

Tesla pares losses in volatile trading after falling below $300

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Tesla's stock price fell below $300 per share at one point on Monday as investors in the electric car maker continued to doubt the validity of a privatization proposal by founder Elon Musk.

Shares of the Palo Alto, California-based company fell as low as $288.20 before rebounding shortly after the open of trading. The stock was down 0.6 percent at $303 as of 10:43 am ET.

Earlier Monday, J.P. Morgan slashed its projections for the carmaker, telling clients that while it originally took chief executive Elon Musk's proposal to take the company private at $420 per share seriously, the funding to do so “appears to not have been secured.”

The firm pared its year-end price target for Tesla shares back to $195 from $308, representing 36 percent downside to Friday's close.

But while the bearish J.P. Morgan note may have weighed on the stock Monday, investors have had plenty of reason to question the CEO over the past few weeks.

Shares also fell after news broke that PIF, the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund that Musk has said could help him fund an offer to take the car company private, is in talks to invest in rival Lucid Motors, Reuters reported cited sources.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, reportedly served Tesla with a subpoena early last week after Musk's now-infamous privatization tweet.

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Earlier reports said the SEC had intensified scrutiny of the automaker after the Aug. 7 tweet. A subpoena would be one of the first steps in a formal inquiry.

The SEC declined CNBC's request for comment on the subpoena.

Musk admitted last Thursday in an emotional interview with The New York Times that the past year has been taxing for him, blaming so-called short-sellers — investors betting against the company — for much of his stress.

He told the newspaper he's overwhelmed by the job, has been working up to 120 hours per week and takes Ambien to fall asleep on occasion.

Tesla shares tumbled 9 percent to $306 the day following the interview.

Columnist and businesswoman Arianna Huffington later called on Musk to adopt a healthier work-life balance in light of the interview, but he said that's not a viable option.

Musk told the Huffington Post founder in a tweet Sunday morning that his car company and Ford are the only two American automakers that have avoided bankruptcy. He then added, in an apparent reference to his long workweek: “You think this is an option. It's not.”

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Citi Research says Tesla should raise capital to prevent a negative confidence ‘spiral’

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Tesla's finances may be hurt by the negative ramifications of CEO Elon Musk's controversial plan to take the company private, according to Citi Research.

The firm reiterated its “neutral/high risk” rating for Tesla shares, citing the company's deteriorating balance sheet.

“Ultimately, credit risk is a function of confidence, without which a company's financial position can quickly spiral into distress. Though we don't think Tesla has necessarily entered such a spiral, the current state of affairs heightens the focus,” analyst Itay Michaeli said in a note to clients Monday. “If a go-private transaction is looking less likely, we think it'd be wise for Tesla to at least try to raise significant new equity capital sooner rather than later.”

The analyst said if Musk's plan to take the company private doesn't happen, the company's cash position may be “pressured” from class-action lawsuits.

Tesla shares fell 0.5 percent Monday after the report.

Tesla's skeptics have called into question the state of the company's financial position. It lost nearly $2 billion last year, and through the first two quarters this year it has burned through about $1.8 billion in cash after capital investments. The company had $2.2 billion in cash at the end of the June quarter.

“When a company's balance sheet is fundamentally weak the outcome can become self-fulfilling — and that's really the risk we see with Tesla right now,” he said.

Michaeli reaffirmed his $356 price target for Tesla shares, representing 16.5 percent upside to Friday's close. The company's stock is down 2 percent this year through Friday versus the S&P 500's 7 percent gain.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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UPDATE 1-Nissan to boost China production capacity by 40 pct, source says

BEIJING (Reuters) – Japan’s Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) plans to invest about $900 million to boost vehicle-making capacity in China by 40 percent by 2021 – part of a 60 billion yuan ($8.73 billion) strategy to become a top three player in the world’s largest auto market. A car with the Nissan logo badge is… Continue reading UPDATE 1-Nissan to boost China production capacity by 40 pct, source says

Carmakers struggle to hire hackers, the hottest job in the industry

Carmakers struggle to hire hackers, the hottest job in the industryMcConnell Trapp has a special set of skills.
He can hack into cars and control aspects of them from his computer.
Trapp, 39, who has a law degree and speaks Japanese fluently, started hacking cars about 16 years ago. He used a computer, some various vehicle spare parts, a turbocharger and the help of few good friends to increase the 120 horsepower normally found in a 1995 Honda Civic sedan to almost 300 hp.
“It was a lot of trial and error,” said Trapp, who admitted he “blew up a lot of engines.”
Today, Trapp is director of Speed Trapp Consulting in Troy. He works as a legal “techno” consultant. He is one of the good guys who uses his ability to infiltrate car computer systems and uncover potentially dangerous flaws that would make them vulnerable to someone with malicious intentions. But if he were a bad guy, he knows how he could compromise several cars at once. Cars in operation today.
“I'd walk into a dealership. I would see if they have a WiFi router designated for customers and gain access into that first,” he said.
Then, if the dealership's service department server is hooked into the main system, he'd infiltrate the service department's storage database that the technicians use for vehicle diagnostics. From there it's as easy as inserting a “fake” update resembling other files for vehicles and infecting multiple cars there for service.
“Hypothetically, I could make a running engine turn off, or render other aspects of the car either useless, or just make it appear as though the vehicle constantly needs service or recalls when it actually doesn't,” he said. “That's the danger, that's the scary part.”
It's that threat associated with vehicle technology that is driving many auto companies and other industries to increasingly look to hire hackers with ethics like Trapp, called “white hat” researchers. Those hackers can identify cybersecurity flaws and thwart nefarious actions of “black hat” hackers.
But finding white hat hackers to hire is incredibly hard, personnel experts said. First, few people have those skills. Then, they must be vetted to make sure they have both the technological acumen and the moral compass for the job. The need for them is outpacing the thin supply.
Hackers for hireTypically, computer hacking is associated with a person or a group with malevolent intentions. The hacker gains unauthorized access to a computer and a technology dependent system to do harm.
In the 2017 movie, “The Fate of the Furious,” for example, actress Charlize Theron's character hacks into every self-driving car in New York City, takes remote control of them and causes mass chaos and destruction.
Depending on which hacker you talk to, some, such as Trapp, say such a movie scenario is unlikely in real life, especially if a human is still needed to turn on a car. Others say, though, that we are almost to a point where that could happen.
General Motors is leading the way in developing autonomous cars. It has promised to bring them to market in urban areas in a taxi-like platform next year. But the fear of scenarios such as the one in the movie, as well as a desire to keep customers' information protected in regular cars, is ratcheting up the need for the company to hire white hat researchers.
GM launched a new program this summer called Bug Bounty. It took GM years of forming relationships with white hat hackers. GM will now bring those hackers to Detroit and pay them a hefty bounty or cash payment for each “bug” they uncover in any of GM vehicles' computer systems.
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Fiat Chrysler has had a Bug Bounty program in place since 2016. It pays white hat hackers up to $1,500 each time they discover a previously unknown vulnerability in vehicle software.
Last year, GM's self-driving unit, Cruise, hired famous car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek. The two, dubbed the “Cherokee Brothers” by Trapp and others in the hacking community, gained fame in 2015 when they proved they could remotely stop a Jeep Cherokee.
GM approachGM conducts its cybersecurity using a three-prong approach: It hires third-party companies that employ white hat hackers, it has its own hackers on staff and it has the Bug Bounty program.
GM and Cruise employ 25 to 30 white hat hackers on staff today compared with five to 10 in 2013, said Jeff Massimilla, GM's vice president of Global Cybersecurity. GM has about 450 people dedicated to all other aspects of cybersecurity across the company, he said.
“As we continue to get more connected and into AV, we will want to increase that number of white hat researchers,” said Massimilla.
Massimilla declined to say how much GM is investing to hire cybersecurity personnel, but he said, “It’s an extremely high priority, we’re well funded and well resourced.”
GM relies on its three-prong approach because of the shortage of white hat hackers, he said. Plus, many don't want to work for one company.
“Hacking a Camaro is pretty darn exciting, hacking an autonomous vehicle is pretty darn exciting — but it's tough to attract that talent because they’re just not there or they want to do it through bounty programs where they can work from home and have flexibility,” said Massimilla.
High priceMore than half of employer demand related to connected and self-driving cars is for workers in data management, cybersecurity and information technology, said the 2017 Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) Skills Gap Analysis by the Workforce Intelligence Network.
In 2015-16, there were 10,344 total job ads placed for CAV-related employment, and 5,400 of those ads were for jobs in data management and cybersecurity, the report said.
And, as demand rises for such skilled workers, the supply remains flat, thus inflating salaries. The average salary for CAV jobs in 2014-15 was $89,616. In 2015-16 that rose to $94,733, the WIN report said, citing data from Burning Glass Technologies.
There's a gap in demand for cybersecurity personnel, especially white hat hackers, versus the supply cuts across many industries. There also is in health care and insurance, said Bob Zhang, CIO of Strategic Staffing Solutions in Detroit, which works to find contract workers to fill such roles for its clients.
“The supply is really low right now. By 2020, the job gap will be 2 million jobs. That means 2 million unfilled openings in cybersecurity,” Zhang said. “You can’t just teach hacking. It requires a whole lot of knowledge from IT and computer science … you have to be the jack of all trades with a deep interest in systems networking.”
Some organizations offer training courses to verify a hacker as a “certified ethical hacker,” he said.
But most large corporations find it beneficial to hire third parties staffed with white hat hackers for specific projects.
“If I'm an IT manager, do I really want to hand-pick somebody and say, 'I’m going to put all of this multibillion-dollar company in the hands of the people I hire?' Or outsource it to a company that focuses on this type of service? Many do both.”
The gap in cybersecurity job demand versus supply is probably the largest gap in the IT industry's history, Zhang said.
“Once the security world matures and the amount of security providers increase, the demand will even out,” he said.
Creating the next generationSome colleges and universities offer courses in cybersecurity, but expanding that curriculum and recruiting younger people into vocational hacking courses to grow the talent pool can't happen fast enough to meet the soaring demand, said Jennifer Tisdale, director of connected mobility and infrastructure for Grimm.
Grimm is a technology consulting company with a new “car hacking lab” in Sparta, Michigan. It uses white hat researchers for automotive clients as well as other industries.
“We need to hire 20-plus researchers in the next two years,” said Tisdale. “I don't have time to wait for a college to structure a program for cybersecurity.”
College programs might not be the full answer anyway, said Brian Demuth, Grimm's CEO.
“There’s not a degree that should be created to do all of this, but there are things like extended learning that can help,” he said.
Grimm, which has 46 employees scattered across the country, looks for people who have a “fundamental view of computer science” and then trains, teaches and grows them from there, said Demuth.
Demuth, 38, is a hacker himself with a computer science background and a passion for tinkering with cars.
“I was always interested in how things worked. I grew up the son of a Marine, and he was in the intelligence field, so there were always computers and amateur radios around,” said Demuth. “My father was into mechanics and working on vehicles and making them start faster or stop faster. That’s what drove my passion into this.”
The hacker stigmaPart of the difficulty in recruiting hackers lies in the stigma surrounding the pursuit.
Matt Carpenter, 44, is Grimm’s lead researcher dedicated to automotive, aerospace and energy businesses. Carpenter works with four other white hat researchers in Grimm's car hacking lab.
“What I do and my team does is everything that can be done by an attacker,” Carpenter said. “We do this so that we can benefit the community and identify problems before someone with bad motives can do it.”
When asked if he calls himself a hacker, he said, “I like to be called a good guy, but there’s no way to be considered a good guy by everybody and do what I do. There’s a great stigma around being a hacker.”
Many people misunderstand the work white hat hackers do, which Carpenter said is “vital” to secure every car on the road.
“It takes a lot of deep knowledge and deep work,” said Carpenter. “You can’t pull me ..

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen’s UK headquarters

Air pollution Campaigners and doctors set up ‘sick bays’ to highlight diesel emissions health risks Greenpeace air pollution campaigners and medical professionals have blocked Volkswagen staff from entering the company’s head office in Milton Keynes. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Greenpeace Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight… Continue reading Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen’s UK headquarters

Wed 11 Apr 2018

Shell to further power progress on the Global Vehicle Trust OX: the inventive flatpack truck
Shell is collaborating with Gordon Murray Design to make this mission happen

Shell has announced that it will commission a pre-production prototype of the world’s first flat-pack truck and it will take this truck to India, which is home to almost 18% of the world’s population1. The ‘OX to India’ mission will showcase the capabilities of the vehicle for bringing low-cost all-terrain mobility to rural communities in developing countries.

The ‘OX to India’ mission is a partnership between Shell and Gordon Murray Design (GMD), working in close alignment with the Global Vehicle Trust (GVT). This represents a crucial development stage of the vehicle, which was officially launched in 2016.

Shell will fund a bespoke prototype OX to take to India and will set up an outreach programme once the vehicle is in India. The vehicle will be re-engineered and built by GMD, and flat-packed for shipment to India in the later part of 2018.

The OX, based on GMD’s flexible iStream® technology, will run exclusively on Shell fluids including Shell Rimula, a hard-working and high-performing diesel engine oil designed to help heavy duty and light duty engines to run efficiently in demanding conditions.

“Shell is eager to play a role alongside others in developing and promoting mobility solutions in developing regions. The OX to India demonstration will see the concept validated and discussed on the ground in a real world setting. We know limited mobility in hard-to-reach communities in developing economies can restrict access to basic services, and can limit the effectiveness of efforts to improve the quality of life. The OX has the potential to broaden access to transport possibilities and all the resulting benefits that come with this,” said Huibert Vigeveno, Executive Vice President, Shell Global Commercial.

The OX is designed to carry a payload of 1,900kg (approximately twice the capacity of most current pickups), which could include everyday necessities, medical supplies, building and agriculture materials. It can seat up to 13 people. The vehicle was envisioned by entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Torquil Norman and designed by renowned automotive engineer Professor Gordon Murray.

Other innovative features of the OX include:

Lightweight, rugged and durable design to maximise payload for goods and people

Low cost, simple maintenance through accessible components and fewer parts

Designed for self-assembly, supplied fully assembled or flat-packed for easy shipping and local assembly

Sir Torquil Norman, founder of GVT said: “I’m so pleased to welcome Shell aboard the OX project and for sharing GVT's vision that this remarkable and versatile vehicle will provide a transformation in affordable mobility for so many people where the need is most acute. With Shell taking the OX to India we can demonstrate its capability in a key market, which will help attract long-term production partners.”

Professor Gordan Murray, Executive Chairman, GMD said: “After our highly successful co-engineering Shell Concept Car programme with Shell, it is exciting to be once again working with Shell on the next phase of this extremely important and ground-breaking project.The OX is one of our most important engineering designs and it is certainly the vehicle of which I am most proud of, as its disruptive design has the potential to change the current mobility model and with Shell’s vision this vehicle could go on to improve so many people’s lives.”

Recognising the need for sustainable, cleaner and more energy efficient transportation solutions, Shell is collaborating and co-engineering a number of projects. In 2016, Shell partnered with Gordon Murray to coengineer the Shell Concept Car – an ultra-efficient city vehicle that, compared to a typical city car, uses 34% less primary energy over its entire lifetime. Shell is also partnering with AirFlow Truck Company to develop a new hyper-fuel mileage Class 8 truck known as the Starship. Its aerodynamic design will seek to demonstrate improvements in fuel economy for while lowering CO2 emissions.

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ENQUIRIES:
Shell Lubricants Global:
Mary B. Walsh, +32478402938, mary.walsh@shell.com
Yashidha Kumari, +65 6390 7345, y.sevakumar@shell.com

Gordon Murray Design Limited:
Sarah Smith, +44 (0) 1483 484700, sarah.smith@gordonmurraydesign.com

Global Vehicle Trust:
Ed Callow, PFPR Communications, +44 (0)1622 766520, ed.callow@pfpr.com

Notes to Editors:

1Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision

Link to images of OX: https://www.flickr.com/photos/royaldutchshell/albums/72157671223809135

The OX’s revolutionary nature extends beyond the vehicle design because, uniquely, it is capable of being flat-packed within itself, enabling it to be transported more efficiently around the world. It takes three people less than six hours to create the flat pack in the UK prior to shipping, and six of these flat packs can be shipped within a 40ft high-cube container. Assembly labour is transferred to the importing country, where local professional companies will be employed to assemble and maintain the finished vehicles. Three skilled people can put an OX together in approximately 12 hours.

The overall vehicle length is far shorter than a large SUV, and yet it can carry a payload of 1900kg (approximately twice the capacity of most current pick-ups) with a load volume of 9.0 m3. Based on EU size guidelines, it can seat up to 13 people or carry eight 44-gallon drums or three Euro-pallets.Figures are based upon production targets.

For more information visit: http://oxgvt.com/

Royal Dutch Shell plc
Royal Dutch Shell plcis incorporated in England and Wales, has its headquarters in The Hague and is listed on the London, Amsterdam, and New York stock exchanges.Shell companies have operations in more than 70 countries and territories with businesses including oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of liquefied natural gas and gas to liquids; manufacturing, marketing and shipping of oil products and chemicals and renewable energy projects. For further information, visit www.shell.com.

About Gordon Murray Design Limited
Gordon Murray Design Limitedis a British company operating from Shalford, Surrey. The Company is recognised as a world leader in automotive design and reverses the current industry trend for sub-contracting by having a complete in-house capability for design, engineering, prototyping and development. The Company is compact and focused and undertakes automotive and other engineering programmes in an efficient and innovative way. For more information please visit www.gordonmurraydesign.com.

The iStream® technology is a complete rethink and redesign of the traditional automotive manufacturing process and could potentially be the biggest revolution in high volume manufacture since the Model T. Development. The process began over 15 years ago and it has already won the prestigious ‘Idea of the Year’ award from Autocar who were given privileged access in order to make their assessment. The simplified assembly process means that the manufacturing plant can be designed to be 20% of the size of a conventional factory. This could reduce capital investment in the assembly plant by approximately 80%. Yet the flexibility of this assembly process means that the same factory could be used to manufacture different variants. The iStream® design process is a complete re-think on high volume materials, as well as the manufacturing process and will lead to a significant reduction in full lifecycle CO2. For more information please visit www.istreamtechnology.co.uk

About the Global Vehicle Trust
In 2010, Sir Torquil Norman founded the Global Vehicle Trust (GVT) to pursue his ambition to help people in the developing world by providing cost-effective mobility for all. The GVT subsequently briefed renowned automotive designer Professor Gordon Murray on a unique humanitarian programme to create a revolutionary lightweight truck. As part of an aid programme, the Global Vehicle Trust OX could provide an essential element of infrastructure to enable the local population to raise the community’s standard of living, and to assert its independence by gaining control of its transportation needs and costs.

Sir Torquil Norman is a former pilot, banker, company executive and toy manufacturing entrepreneur. He is a passionate philanthropist, and is chiefly responsible for the rescue and renovation of The Roundhouse in Camden, north London.

Cautionary note
The companies in which Royal Dutch Shell plc directly and indirectly owns investments are separate legal entities. In this press release “Shell”, “Shell group” and “Royal Dutch Shell” are sometimes used for convenience where references are made to Royal Dutch Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general. Likewise, the words “we”, “us” and “our” are also used to refer to Royal Dutch Shell plc and subsidiaries in general or to those who work for them. These terms are also used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular entity or entities. ‘‘Subsidiaries’’, “Shell subsidiaries” and “Shell companies” as used in this press release refer to entities over which Royal Dutch Shell plc either directly or indirectly has control. Entities and unincorporated arrangements over which Shell has joint control are generally referred to as “joint ventures” and “joint operations”, respectively.Entities over which Shell has significant influence but neither control nor joint control are referred to as “associates”. The term “Shell interest” is used for convenience to indicate the direct and/or indirect ownership interest held by Shell in an entity or unincorporated joint arrangement, after exclusion of all third-party interest.

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Wed 18 Jul 2018

SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS IN THE 14TH INTEGRATED DELIVERY PROGRAMME: PROJECT ‘PARADIGM_SHIFT’: ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION TO ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES

Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and Innovate UK via the Faraday Battery Challenge (part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund) invest a total of £20 million to successful competition winners of the 14th Integrated Delivery Programme. The winning projects will develop low-cost, highly integrated systems to enable zero emission capable journeys for cars, vans and heavy goods vehicles.

Paradigm_Shift is a 16 month project led by Gordon Murray Design (GMD) – an iconic automotive design and engineering company, Delta Motorsport – electrification, hybridisation, and vehicle dynamics specialists, and aiPod – the company that designs city-integrated autonomous mobility systems. The vehicle platform will deliver dramatically lower mass (450 kg), high levels of safety, lower energy, and drive-by-wire capabilities in a small footprint, making zero-emission transport options available more rapidly to the entire population.

Responding to the urgent need for a low-cost, ultra-lightweight vehicle platform, using GMD's iStream superlight® technology suitable for mass-production, the consortium will incorporate a breakthrough level of integrated design and safety performance and ensure the platform is ready for the new era of autonomous driving.

The consortium will design and engineer a ground up small footprint demonstrator vehicle to demonstrate the integrated technology approach that will be available at the end of 2019. The project aim is to deliver a sub 450 kg vehicle to meet M1 levels of safety performance whilst reducing cost and investment to enable development of flexible and affordable electric vehicles. The platform will address traditional driven vehicle requirements alongside the rapidly growing requirement for MAAS autonomous transportation and last mile logistics. The combination of affordable EV in a small footprint offers a solution to the growing emissions, congestion and parking crisis currently experienced in urban environments globally.

Editors Notes

Gordon Murray Design Limited is a British company operating from Shalford, Surrey. The Company is recognised as a world leader in automotive design and reverses the current industry trend for sub-contracting by having a complete in-house capability for design, prototyping and development. The Company is compact and focused and undertakes automotive and other engineering programmes in an efficient and innovative way. For more information please visit www.gordonmurraydesign.com.
Gordon Murray Design’s patented iStream® technology process is a complete rethink and redesign of the traditional automotive manufacturing process and could potentially be the biggest revolution in high volume manufacture since the Model T. Development. The process began over 15 years ago and it has already won the prestigious ‘Idea of the Year’ award from Autocar who were given privileged access in order to make their assessment. The simplified assembly process means that the manufacturing plant can be designed to be 20% of the size of a conventional factory. This could reduce capital investment in the assembly plant by approximately 80%. Yet the flexibility of this assembly process means that the same factory could be used to manufacture different variants. The iStream® design process is a complete re-think on high volume materials, as well as the manufacturing process and will lead to a significant reduction in full lifecycle CO2. For more information please visit www.istreamtechnology.co.uk.

Silverstone-based Delta Motorsport Limited is engineering for the future (www.delta-motorsport.com). Its background is deeply rooted in high-performance engineering, and it has over 10 years of experience developing technologies through innovation and continuous improvement that enable electrification; for passenger cars and beyond. Delta now has three main business streams.
Powertrain integration and development of a novel microturbine range extender, “MiTRE”, that delivers freedom from range anxiety in a small and light-weight package whilst also achieving extremely low emissions (particularly NOx and particulate).
Delta’s battery systems experience spans 48V to 800V, and it has developed a highly flexible, modular approach to battery system manufacture. These systems can be liquid cooled (using Delta’s patented low cost and light-weight approach), air cooled or uncooled, depending on the application.
Delta launched its in-house EV – the Delta E-4 Coupe – in 2011, and since this time it has been developing strategies to control any actuators fitted to the vehicle that deliver the longitudinal and lateral dynamics requirements, such as traction motors, brakes and steering. In PARADIGM_SHIFT, this control will be completely “by wire”, with no input from the occupant.

aiPod designs and builds systems that enable smart cities to manage the impact of rapidly approaching waves of innovation in sensors and computational technologies and their interaction with rapidly evolving mobility-focused business models. aiPod's vision is to build urban mobility traffic control systems for autonomous vehicles that will help cities transition from individually-owned automobiles to Integrated Mobility-as-a-Service enabled by AVs. To learn more about aiPod, please visit www.aipod.com.

For more information please contact:
Sarah Smith, Communications Officer at Gordon Murray Design on +44 (0)1483 484700 or via email at sarah.smith@gordonmurraydesign.com.

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