• Hydrogen innovator secures APC funding
    • 05/12/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Hydrogen-powered commercial vehicle innovator Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) has secured a £15m grant from the UK Government’s Advanced Propulsion Centre. The Glasgow-based company is leading innovation in hydrogen mobility in the form of the UK’s first indigenous, clean-sheet, hydrogen fuel-cell Heavy Goods [...]
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  • Gordon Murray Group announces major growth strategy
    • 04/07/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Gordon Murray Group has unveiled significant growth plans with a new technology division, a strengthened leadership team, and new facilities in the UK and the US. Professor Gordon Murray, formerly group CEO, has been announced as executive chairman of the business, with responsibility for all product [...]
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  • Parts supply disrupter set for spring launch
    • 13/12/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Tech start-up Autentica has raised over £150,000 of investment ahead of its launch into the spare parts market next spring. Autentica has developed the first blockchain-powered, AI-based digital supply chain for spare parts and – with private investors matching a £76,000 Innovate UK grant – is set to move [...]
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  • Ford confirms major UK investment
    • 18/10/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Ford has announced it is investing up to £230m to manufacture electric components at its Halewood plant in Merseyside. The investment will help to protect 500 jobs. The factory will be Ford's first European plant to produce components for electric cars and is expected to start manufacturing electric power units [...]
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  • Fix Auto Sandhurst rises from the flames
    • 27/08/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Fix Auto Sandhurst has completed a major programme of investment and rebuilding after an arson attack in 2020. Owner Martin Weller has spent an additional £150,000 on top of the insurance money received after arsonists destroyed his offices and part of his main workshop. The repair centre now boasts a brand-new [...]
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  • CAM commits to keep tyre industry rolling
    • 10/08/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    CAM has announced that it will continue to invest £1.5m in software innovation and research and development to support the continued development of the tyre industry. After 40 years in the industry Cam is now the primary tyre solutions provider for 19 of the UK’s top 25 tyre wholesalers, Chairman Trevor Allen [...]
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  • Huge EV investment secures Ellesmere Port future
    • 06/07/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The future of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant has been secured with a £100m investment from Stellantis and the commitment to turn the plant into an electric vehicle manufacturing centre. Supported by government investment, Stellantis has pledged to transform the plant to produce electric models in both [...]
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  • Nissan confirms Sunderland EV expansion
    • 01/07/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Nissan has confirmed it will develop a new electric vehicle Gigafactory in Sunderland, while also manufacturing a new all-electric model at the site. The £1bn expansion, hoped to be completed by 2024, will create 1,650 new jobs as well as nearly 5,000 supply chain jobs. The Gigafactory will be developed by [...]
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  • Nissan to develop Sunderland Gigafactory
    • 29/06/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Nissan is expected to announce plans to build the UKs first battery Gigafactory in Sunderland, creating thousands of new jobs in the area. Supported by investment from the government, the site could open in 2024 and produce batteries for about 200,000 cars every year. It’s also been reported the company may [...]
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  • ‘A pivotal moment for the business’
    • 02/06/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Three months after revealing plans to expand and develop a secondary site, Fix Auto Mid Devon owner Louise Woolacott and her daughters Erika and Alena have now opened the doors to Fix Auto Newton Abbot. The 6,000 sqft state-of-the-art repair centre has been designed and developed to complement their existing site [...]
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