With transportation accounting for more than a quarter of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, innovations in electrification across all areas of the sector will be key to enabling the UK to achieve its 2050 net zero ambitions.
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Held to coincide with The Engineer’s “Sustainable Mobility” week – a week long programme of content focused low carbon transportation - this special panel discussion brought together leading engineers from organisations including Ricardo, Rolls-Royce Plc, The Advanced Propulsion Centre and UKRI to discuss UK progress in electrification.
This free to attend session - which was run in partnership with the engineering consultancy Ricardo - explored the latest trends and technologies that are driving electrification across different sectors, examined the obstacles to electrification and considered the ways in which cross-sector collaboration can help overcome some of these challenges.
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MEET THE PANEL
- Philippa Oldham – Stakeholder Engagement Director, Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APCUK)
- Riona Armesmith – Chief Project Engineer, Hybrid Electric Propulsion, Rolls-Royce Plc
- Dr Will Drury - Challenge Director for Driving the Electric Revolution
- Adrian Greaney - Director Technology and Digital, Ricardo
- Colin Morgan - Chief Engineer for Advanced Services, QinetiQ
- Jon Excell – Editor, The Engineer
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