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<\/a><\/p>\nIn November\u00a0Meteor Power was\u00a0one of twenty nine\u00a0applications invited to apply for the second stage of the competition and duly submitted a more comprehensive application in mid-December. This application included a more detailed application form, comprehensive finance forms for each of the project partners along with several appendices giving additional\u00a0information on the potential market, innovations and goals, intellectual property, project development plans, project\u00a0partners and subcontractors, etc.<\/p>\n
An unfortunate technical glitch led to one of the appendices becoming corrupted in the upload process, resulting in the loss of formatting on a number of headings and tables plus\u00a0the loss of a\u00a0key exploitation plan, curiously the only landscape page in the whole document. Sadly the problem was\u00a0only noticed on downloading the submitted version after the deadline which proved incredibly frustrating as the exploitation plan was a natural extension\u00a0of the one submitted\u00a0for a project under the IDP11 programme in 2014 and can be\u00a0read clearly in the appendix prior to being transmitted to\u00a0the central server.<\/p>\n
Westfield Sports Cars (Project Partner) – The competition required the involvement of a vehicle manufacturer to ensure real world\u00a0automotive requirements were addressed in the project application. Meteor Power were delighted to have Westfield involved\u00a0in the project as not only could they advise on their requirements from a four wheel point of view they could also offer support and advice in\u00a0vehicle manufacturing and regulatory type approval. More importantly, the project would deliver a a fully Euro 6 compliant and tested sports car using the new hybrid power train for direct comparison with\u00a0their existing Euro 6 compliant models.<\/p>\n
Mahle Powertrain (Subcontractor) – Mahle\u00a0are involved to offer two key services, firstly to advise on ‘design for manufacturing’ and related quality processes, such as ISO\/TS 16949, i.e. ensure nothing we do early on will prevent issues later on once volumes increase and we ‘productionise’ the building of the petrol engines and power electronics, and secondly, to manufacture and machine the key engine components to the required\u00a0specifications.<\/p>\n
Meteor Power\u00a0have the engine design capability in house, supplemented by Bath University, so\u00a0Mahle Powertrain are involved as a subcontractor with a view to supporting the project through this stage but with a longer term goal that the project\u00a0partners will learn enough to be able to go it alone without\u00a0Mahle on future projects.<\/p>\n