SCALE-UP addresses the challenge of high-volume sustainable lightweighting in Battery electric Vehicle using composite materials and delivering four innovations. * ?A lighter, sustainable/lower-CO2e, affordable door, as alternative to aluminium benchmark, anticipating future legislation and decarbonisation of aluminium. * A high-volume, affordable, sustainable carbon fibre wheel breaking the ceiling of state-of-art production volume through deployment of innovative design and manufacturing process. * Production scale-up of high-performance recycled carbon fibre materials to allow mass production of recycled carbon fibre composite retaining up to 90% of the original performance. * Digital tools using new modelling methods predicting the feasibility, performance and quality of the final products.

Ensuring driving safety is crucial, especially for older drivers (aged 60+), who often face diminished eyesight and slower response times (Mather,2009). Augmented-reality (AR) Head-Up-Display (HUD) technology offers a potential solution by providing essential driving information without diverting attention. However, current HUD systems have a significant drawback in visual adjustment time which poses safety risks, particularly for older drivers (upto 1 sec). This project, a collaboration between JLR and Lark Optics, aims to set a global standard for HUD technology, prioritising driver safety and customer experience. This project aims to industrialise and commercialise an innovative technology that is on the verge of changing the global visual display industry and that can enhance the inclusion and wellbeing of its users significantly.

The Electric Vehicle Advanced Inverter Technology (EleVAIT) consortium will investigate key inverter technologies and concepts that will enhance the attributes of future Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) electrified vehicles from 2030\. The EleVAIT project will focus on wide band gap semiconductors, integrated device packaging, modelling and utilisation techniques to enable increased power density, higher efficiency and lower costs. The project will support growth of UK manufacturers of automotive power electronic components and products.

The project will investigate key automotive battery technologies and concepts that will enhance the attributes of future Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) electrified vehicles from 2026\. The project will focus on an integrated structural battery pack and wireless communicating battery cells to enable increased efficiency, reliability and sustainability. The project will support growth of UK manufacturers of automotive battery components and products.

Green mobility is key for a Net-Zero future. Polymer composites are a critical enabler to deliver lightweight solutions with ultimate performance. However, current manufacturing technologies are costly and inherently slow as well as limited in terms of fibre orientation distribution, given that current deposition and laying-up solutions (automated fibre placement - AFP, automated tape laying - ATL, tailored fibre placement - TFP) force straight/geodesic continuous fibre-paths. These issues result in labour intensive and prolonged manufacturing processes with low-productivity, increased energy consumption, production costs and environmental footprint, hindering wide adoption of composites in automotive. Also, whilst delivering lightweight solution in comparison to metal components, CFRP (Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic) have a higher embedded CO2e compared to their metallic counterparts. This is primarily due to the energy intensive process use in the production of the carbon fibre. Considering company and government commitment to a net-zero future it is instrumental to make efficient use of such material to balance components/vehicle structure mass, cost and CO2e targets. The SOCA project aims to bring to market CO2e-optimised/net-zero and lightweight composite technologies and body-structure for automotive electric vehicles (EVs) using the award-winning skeleton/flesh concept, which was successfully demonstrated during previous projects. The skeleton/flesh concept includes the use of low-cost/low-performance ''flesh'' material strategically reinforced with structural unidirectional (UD) carbon fibre tapes acting as a ''skeleton'' for the manufacturing of fibre reinforced parts (FRP). This is possible through iCOMAT's Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) technology the world first automated composite manufacturing process that can place wide composite tapes along curved paths without generating defects. Effective fibre-steering allows alignment of fibres with the primary load-paths and complex geometries required in automotive application, leading to ultra-lightweight cost-effective components of ultimate performance. The SOCA consortium will develop and validate through structural testing and simulation both virtual and physical demonstrators using an existing body structure concept. The aim is to exploit the technology through low-volume in the short-term before expanding to higher volumes following successful demonstration and adoption in low-volume. The implementation of SOCA technologies is expected to reduce body-structure environmental footprint, mass and can enable further vehicle mass reductions due to additionally induced mass savings in secondary systems such as batteries. Furthermore, enabling the use of low-CO2e FRP from recycled fibre and optimised UD laying, will drastically reduce the environmental footprint of current automotive FRP component, specifically when extensively using carbon fibre.