SMMT News

1. Government unveils Ultra-low emission vehicle strategy
2. Registrations for new cars, commercial vehicles and bus and coach up in August
3. BIS announces details of 2013 See Inside Manufacturing scheme
4. Plans to improve cycling safety in London announced
5. Businesses urged to prepare bids for Regional Growth Fund Round 5
6. DfT Clean Bus Fund awarded
7. Week ahead

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has announced its latest See Inside Manufacturing (SIM) scheme, which is will give youngsters the chance to experience the car manufacturing industry at first hand, in a programme that runs throughout October.

Bus and coach registrations up 56.9% to 488 units in August. Registrations for all bus and coach markets down 16.9% year-to-date. Purpose-built coach registrations up 15.4% to 643 units for the year-to-date. Purpose-built bus and coach registrations increased 52.0% to…

Total CV registrations were robust in August up 14.8% at 13,451 units with year-to-date volumes 7% above 2012 at 190,159 units. Vans rose 11.1% with 10,344 registrations in the month and remained 9.4% up for the January-August period with 161,938…

SMMT has published Electric Vehicle (EV) registration figures for August and the year-to-date.

Registrations have grown in every month in 2013 by an average of 10%.

Jaguar Land Rover has announced details of a new research project which will showcase next-generation hybrid and fully electric technologies based on the Range Rover Evoque platform. Dubbed ‘Evoque_e’, the £16.3m programme will be supported by the Technology Strategy Board,…

PPVL Technical Bulletin August 2013

Transport Minister, Norman Baker MP, has today launched Driving the Future Today, the strategy to implement £500m funding to support in Ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEV), which was announced earlier this year.

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