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  • This collaborative venture brings together all businesses in Wales developing or manufacturing low carbon vehicle technologies and encourages them to work closely together to invest in research and development, develop new IP, and commercialise new products.
  • Swansea Metropolitan University’s Formula Student Team have yet again proved themselves to be one of the best motorsport teams in the world, having confirmed themselves as best in Wales, top three in the UK and, even more impressively, top twelve in the world, after the 2010 Formula Student competition at Silverstone.
  • Two Welsh firms are in the running for a European award for being “the best of the best” on the continent, including Wales’ only FTSE 100 company Admiral.
  • The Prince of Wales helped build one of the first new generation Ford EcoBoost 1.6 petrol engines when he visited the Ford Bridgend plant to mark its 30th Birthday at the end of June 2010.
  • The European Investment Bank has signed off a £450m commercial loan to Ford, which anchors the car giant’s £1.5bn investment in a new generation of low carbon vehicles.
  • Battery and energy storage systems of the future are being put through their paces at the University of Glamorgan thanks to funding from A4B.
  • A Low Carbon Vehicles Cluster is to be established in Wales to link innovative automotive companies with academic expertise to develop next generation products for the rapidly expanding green automotive sector.
  • The M4 in south Wales is to become a "hydrogen highway", with alternative energy refuelling points, Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has announced.
  • Precision bearings and automotive engine components manufacturer Schaeffler (UK) Ltd has joined the Welsh Automotive Forum’s Low Carbon Vehicle Cluster (LCVC).
  • A Llanelli automotive plant is to manufacture a new generation of products in an £11.4m project which will create 37 new jobs.

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