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Event review: LowCVP Conference 2016: Low Carbon Automotive – a much needed area of future certainty for the UK
The LowCVP Conference 2016 looked at a range of issues including a new APC report on the UK’s low carbon automotive capabilities, as well as potential changes for the UK’s low carbon automotive industry after Brexit. At a time when the country was dominated by uncertainty following the EU Referendum, reassurance was provided by a […]
Event review: Winning Eco-marathon Vehicle Achieves 7,362mpg
The winning vehicle at the 2016 Shell Eco Marathon held in London’s Olympic Park from 30 June to 3 July achieved 7,362mpg (2,606.4km/litre). As if that wasn’t enough of an achievement, this year’s event even included a race between the eco cars… The Shell Eco Marathon is a competition that challenges student teams from around […]
Event review: Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) Event 2016 Preview
The Cenex LCV 2016 event, taking place from 14th to 15th September at Millbrook Proving Ground, is the must-attend conference (and exhibition and ride & drive) for all companies and organisations operating – or wanting to operate – in the low carbon vehicle sector. A preview day provided a taster of what you can expect […]
Event review: Automechanika Birmingham and SMMT Open Forum
Automechanika took place for the first time at Birmingham’s NEC from 7-9 June 2016, and the NAA had a stand at the event showcasing Force Technology, Fylde CNC, Erlson Precision Components, Auto Marine Cables, Tilsatec, Wilson Gunn and the STRIVE project. As well as incorporating more of a supply chain focus rather than just purely […]
Event review: Cholmondeley Power & Speed 2016
The NAA, Helical Technology and Automotive Comms shared a hospitality table at Cholmondeley Power and Speed, which took place from 10-12 June 2016. Helical’s customers and prospective NAA members were hosted at the event, which featured a wide variety of vehicles competing on the sprint circuit in the grounds of Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire – […]
NAA Event Review: Celebrating 50 years at Mini Gears
Every NAA factory tour and networking meeting is unique and fascinating for its own reasons, but the recent visit to Mini Gears was all the more memorable due to the family-owned business having its 50th Birthday party on the same day as our event… Mini Gears Chairman Paul Darwent welcomed the NAA contingent to the […]
NAA Event Review: Unique behind-the-scenes tour of Vodafone Automotive’s Secure Operating Centre
During the last month NAA members have visited Mini Gears, which was a highly enjoyable visit, but for something very different we’ve also been fortunate to have a unique behind-the-scenes tour of the Vodafone Automotive Secure Operating Centre (SOC) in Burnley, where visitors found out about the company’s activities in the area of the prevention […]
NAA Event Review: Networking Meeting, Ginetta Cars, Leeds, 10 March 2016
The NAA offers its members ‘money can’t buy’ opportunities, including events such as a fascinating recent visit to Ginetta in Yorkshire, a company that is making big progress in helping more people into motorsport… NAA visitors were treated to a tour of Ginetta’s factory and a presentation by Technical Director Ewan Baldry (see this month’s […]
Event Review: Niche Vehicle Network Symposium 2016
The Niche Vehicle Network Symposium 2016 showed that smaller automotive manufacturers and suppliers can deliver innovative research and development projects with impressive results in short timescales and with comparatively small budgets… The UK automotive industry has been transformed over recent years by government and industry working together and by collaborative funding projects, however typically the […]
Event Review: Future Powertrain Conference 2016
The Future Powertrain Conference 2016 had one main theme: emissions – showing that all supply chain companies also need to have this focus… In summary: Volkswagen emissions scandal mentioned in many presentations Keynote speech delivered by Michael Hurwitz from the Department for Transport: “We need to engineer for the future world.” Prof Neville Jackson from […]
