Jaguar Land Rover ‘to take the heat off petrol emissions’

Jaguar Land Rover is leading a project aiming to recover car exhaust heat and use it to make petrol engines more efficient. Other partners in the initiative, which is called VIPER2 (Vehicle Integrated Powertrain Energy Recovery), include Ford, European Thermodynamics and Nottingham University. So far the project has received £2 million of investment, which it […]

£56m funding revs up low carbon transport projects

An estimated £56million of public and private funding has been made available to support low carbon transport projects. The Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency, said the money will be invested in 17 major research and development projects and many will be led by car manufacturers such as Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover. They […]