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I don't see an electric vehicle manufacturer in London.
by zump 11y ago
I don't see an electric vehicle manufacturer in London.
- untog 11y agoBecause companies grow out of the environments that surround them. London depends heavily on public transportation, so I wouldn't expect to see much innovating in the automobile industry there.
- gd1 11y agoNearly every F1 team is located in Southern England. Williams is in Wantage, Mclaren in Dorking. Exotic materials, wind tunnels, FE clusters, CAD/CAE engineering talent, etc...
- robin_reala 11y ago(McLaren is in Woking, not Dorking)
- christoph 11y agoRed Bull are based in Milton Keynes.
- Animats 11y agoThere's Global Electric Vehicle Corporation.[1] It's a classic startup. Cool web site, new marketing concept ("white label" electric vehicles), hip features ("not just a car, an eMobility vehicle designed to meet the lifestyle needs of today's electronically wired and iPod generation"). They're not actually shipping cars, and all the images of cars seem to be renders. But their web site is really cool. (Although they're in the Midlands, not London.) [1] http://www.globalelectricvehicle.com/ http://www.globalelectricvehicle.com/
- DanBC 11y agoTrue. But electric vehicles (milk floats, buses, trains, trams, underground trains) have been used for a very long time. Since 1890 for tube trains, for example. England's electric vehicle companies would tend to be located in areas that had heavier engineering - electric trains were built in Birmingham
- Symbiote 11y agoElectric trains still are built in Derby and Loughborough. Perhaps Vivarail counts as a recent startup, founded 2012 in Stratford upon Avon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivarail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivarail
- cjrp 11y agoWhile not a fully-electric vehicle, the McLaren use some interesting battery tech in their P1 road car and F1 cars.
- jdietrich 11y agoIt would be insane to start an EV company in London. Rent and rates are cripplingly high and you could get considerable tax incentives for setting up elsewhere in the UK. Nissan have recently opened a massive battery factory in Sunderland to complement their existing car factory. Jaguar Land Rover have announced electric models for 2017 which would be manufactured in their Birmingham, Halewood or Solihull factories. Magtec in Sheffield and Zytek in Staffordshire design and manufacture electric drivetrain systems for a number of companies. London =/= Britain.
- ommunist 11y agoRight you are! When Britain produced strategic Handley Page bombers, they made it at Bricket Wood.
- ommunist 11y agoThis is because they can only historically be in Woking.