Love's still-mysterious car,
Has many a light of gold and white,
And a single dark red star.
Last night we heard from Intelligent Energy, Johnson Matthey, and Lotus about the succession of emission control technologies needed to clean up our car exhausts and those of the lorries, motorbikes and construction motors running in our cities. They have built up skills in chemistry, engineering, and electronics control to supply components and designs globally to Original Equipment Manufacturers responding to ever tighter legislation.
It is interesting to hear about the technology and design trade-offs of a hydrogen plane, a catalytic converter, a hydrogen taxi. These choices are important to component and design suppliers like ARM, Cambridge Consultants, eg technology, PA Consulting, Philips, PowerSi, Omnagen, TTP, University of Cambridge, University of East Anglia, Anglia Ruskin and the wide range of government, legal and financial advisors contributing to the discussion afterwards.
The time scales and investments required for changes in global distribution systems are huge - and ideas from around Cambridge can help make those decisions cleaner. And that can lead to leading world market shares, as local companies like Johnson Matthey (autocatalysts) and ARM (automotive electronics) have shown.
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