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All-electric racing car unveiled

Codenamed B12/69EV and the result of the collaboration of several partners, the electric prototype, developed by Lola Group and Drayson Racing Technologies, is expected to become the fastest electric car in the world, running at ...
Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer at Rolls Royce

Rolls-Royce Motors cruises to record sales figures

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars sold 3,538 cars in 2011, up 31% on the previous year’s total of 2,711. The figure represents the best sales result in the luxury carmakers’s 107-year history, with the previous record of ...
Vauxhall Ampera RE-EV low carbon vehicle car

Top 10 green cars to watch out for in 2012

Next Green Car,  the UK’s leading green car website, has compiled its definitive list of the greenest and most innovative low carbon cars due for launch in 2012. In 2012, purchase incentives for plug-in electric vehicles ...
Aerial view of the Leyland Trucks plant in Lancashire

Andrea Thompson – Team captain

Andrea Thompson makes thousands of trucks a year on a production line where two consecutive trucks are rarely the same. Her company has won a string of awards for operational efficiency and product quality. Will ...
toyota EV

Toyota and Honda suffer as Nissan booms

Car sales in the US fell by around 7% for Toyota and Honda in 2011 while overall sales rose by 10% to 12.8 million. By contrast with the poor performance of Toyota and Honda’s products, ...
Dagenham Diesel Centre (UK)

Ford Dagenham Diesel Centre – the diesel revolution

Tim Brown takes a look inside one of Britain’s iconic manufacturers, the Ford Diesel Engine plant in Dagenham and talks to manufacturing manager, Martin Everitt about the Ford journey. Ford in Dagenham has enjoyed somewhat ...
Bentley Continental GT

Bentley benefits from Chinese consumer power

The history of luxury car manufacturer, Bentley, is firmly located in the UK despite being owned by German-based Volkswagen since 1998. All Bentleys are designed, engineered and manufactured in Crewe, Cheshire, so Bentley’s announcement yesterday ...

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  • Finance for Manufacturers Report

    The calls for cheaper and longer bank lending terms still ring out across industry, and yet the banks say a healthy manufacturing sector is keeping them busy. With the EFG, BGF, asset and invoice finance

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  • Catapult Update: shaping the network of centres

    This document explains how the UK’s new network of Catapults is being established by the Technology Strategy Board. Catapults are centres of technology and innovation that will transform the UK’s ability to create new products

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