Gaydon, Warwickshire – The British government has announced an investment of £23 million to help speed up the development of technologies that will significantly reduce CO2 emissions. Jaguar Land Rover announced that it is involved in a number of the projects being funded, through partnerships with suppliers, government agencies and universities.

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the Department for Transport have announced that sixteen development projects, worth a total of over £52 million, will receive the government funding through the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform.

The projects include a range-extended electric vehicle built on a large premium SUV platform; a mechanical flywheel hybrid system for premium vehicles; a large luxury vehicle with advanced hybrid electric driveline based on a Jaguar aluminum body structure; and the feasibility of a mass-producible lightweight car based on post-consumer scrap aluminum.

Jaguar Land Rover is also involved in a project to deliver a global premium vehicle demonstrating a 25 to 30 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions with no loss of performance, using an innovative, highly-downsized gasoline engine with two-stroke/four-stroke switching technology.