Low Cost Auxillary Power Unit (LowCAP)

该项目将为续航增程电动汽车(REVS)塔塔汽车欧洲技术中心(TMETC)plc、阿什伍德汽车有限公司(Ashwood)和巴斯大学(Bath)设计、建模、开发和评估业界首个低成本辅助动力装置(LowCAP)，以提供在全球大众市场批量开发、评估和开发产品的一整套技能。该项目将使英国的知识产权在技术和商业上与市场上成本最低的现代内燃机(ICE)之一捆绑在一起，该内燃机由塔塔汽车制造，预计将在塔塔汽车集团内部和全球OEM市场以外的地方得到开发。该项目将从第一天起专注于低成本的REEV市场。这些电机和控制器将是阿什伍德通过之前由TSB资助的涉及阿什伍德和巴斯的项目开发的低成本电机技术的利用。该项目将进一步创新低成本电机和逆变器IP，使由可持续材料建造的高效、低成本、完全集成、轻量化的APU得以开发。成功的产品将由塔塔汽车集团在他们自己的汽车中销售和分发，并作为标准的LowCAP单位分发给全球OEM。

The project will design, model, develop and evaluate an industry first Low Cost Auxillary Power Unit (LowCAP) for Range Extended Electric Vehicles (REEVs) Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) plc, Ashwoods Automotive Ltd (Ashwoods), and University of Bath (Bath) combine to offer the set of skills to develop, evaluate and exploit the outputs in global mass market volumes. The project will result in UK intellectual property being technically and commercially tied into one of the lowest cost modern internal combustion engines (ICE) on the market which is built by Tata Motors and is anticipated to be exploited globally within the Tata Motors Group and beyond to the global OEM marketplace. The project will be focused from day one towards the low cost REEV market. The motors and controllers will be an exploitation of the low cost electric motor technology developed by Ashwoods through previous TSB funded projects involving Ashwoods and Bath. The project will see futher innovations low cost motor and inverter IP that will enable the development of a highly efficient, low cost, fully integrated, lightweight APU built from sustainable materials. Successful outputs will be sold and distributed by Tata Motors Group within their own vehicles and as a standard LowCAP unit to global OEMs.