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To realise the dream of truly high-performance electric vehicles, engineers are working to solve the key challenge – how to increase battery capacity, (and so boost performance or range) while maintaining safety standards, without adding weight?

Project Century was a £4.9m initiative investigating whether a manufacturing process for a composite component could meet automotive industry targets of a 60 second production cycle time, equating to a vehicle production rate of 50,000 a year. Allied to this was the goal of delivering a comparative component weight reduction in the region of 30% compared to metallic counterparts.

The NCC's testing of damaged couch tops used in radiotherapy treatments at Cheltenham General Hospital's Oncology Centre could save the NHS up to £90,000.