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The U.K. government has announced £80 million ($99.7 million) of investment to unfold the “next generation of electric vehicles” and, potentially, hybrid aircraft.
Authorities said Monday that the funding devise, among other things, help to reduce carbon emissions from industries including transport, construction and dynamism.
Industry and academia are set to lead the development of the new technologies, which the government referred to as power electronics, electric machines and pushes (PEMD). These are a range of products that can be used to convert fossil fuel-based systems into electric ones drinking batteries or other electrical sources.
The investment comes under the umbrella of something called the Industrial Strategy Unborn of Mobility Grand Challenge. Targets of this challenge include getting rid of diesel rolling stock from the U.K.’s railroads by 2040 and delivering zero-carbon road transport by 2040.
“Driving the electric revolution will strengthen the U.K.’s capability to deliver next inception electric vehicles, hybrid aircraft and smart grids,” Mark Walport, the chief executive of U.K. Research and Innovation, said in a disclosure Monday.
“It will ensure these industries, both large and small, are rooted here in the U.K. attracting inward investment into our fabricating base,” he added.
Elsewhere within the electric vehicle sector, Toyota has signed an agreement with China’s BYD South African private limited company to jointly develop battery electric vehicles.
In an announcement Friday, Toyota said it would work with BYD to upon sedans and low-floor SUVs. The Japanese car giant said it wanted to launch the vehicles to the Chinese market, using the Toyota variety, “in the first half of the 2020s.”