Onstreet charging points such as
Char.gy will support battery electric
vehicle (BEV) take-up. L-R: Cllr Jim
O’Boyle (Coventry City Council),
Anthony Evans & Gavin Shipley
(both of Sarginsons) –
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Strengthening current
Emobility is gaining pace and activity in the supply chain that serves carmakers and the related
infrastructure is spreading more broadly as sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) gather pace in the UK
and around the world. But electrifi cation stretches more broadly than that. Andrew Allcock reports
With the announcement that the ban
on the sale of diesel- and petrolonly
vehicles in the UK is to be
brought forward to 2030, the speed of
change across industry and throughout the
supply chain is only set to increase. While the
large automotive OEMs are clearly well
plugged into the new age of the electric
automobile (see Machinery February 2019,
p10 – www.is.gd/uqumog ), this change lters
down through the supply chain, affecting rst
manufacturing technology suppliers and then
the factories that use it, taking in ever wider
numbers as demand grows.
So it is that emobility or electri cation are
increasingly frequent references appearing in
material arriving at the Machinery of ce these
days, and that is set to accelerate, no doubt,
with this latest announcement. Speaking in
January this year, Harry Merrison, investment
manager at Kingswood Holdings, noted:
“Internal combustion engine (ICE) production
peaked in 2018 and is now in decline as the
world moves towards cleaner solutions.”
DS Automobiles has confi rmed it will meet the new 2030
UK deadline fi ve years ahead of time. It’s range will be
exclusively electrifi ed by 2025, offering an electric variant
across its entire model range. By 2025, the brand will
exclusively offer plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) and fully
electric vehicles (EV) to its customers. Pictured here is the
And Volkswagen Group last month announced
that it would manufacture 26 million fully
electric cars by 2030 and is committed to
investing €73 billion on electri cation, hybrid
powertrains and digital technology over the
next ve years.
So, let’s run through some of the
announcements made this year up and down
the UK supply chain and which start to give
shape to the new emobility/electri cation
manufacturing world. In January, metal
contact and precision stampings specialist
Samuel Taylor Ltd (STL) secured a signi cant
contract to support vehicle electri cation,
a rst for the Redditch-located rm.
A manufacturer of precision stamped
components and assemblies that specialises
in the sophisticated bonding of bi-metals
within the development of battery busbar
technology, the company said that the
development of this technology for electric
vehicles represents an area of signi cant
potential growth.
Commented STL sales manager
DS 3 Crossback E-Tense
Carl Siviter: “We are already a manufacturer
of high precision busbars and contacts used
in smart metering applications and so it was
relatively straightforward to leverage this
know-how to focus on automotive busbars
needed for electric vehicles. Several
innovative techniques have been used in the
nal tool design, which will allow for a
signi cant level of exibility and cost savings
to be achieved.”
Also in January, Coventry-based
Sarginsons Industries, which traditionally
supplies aluminium castings to a range of
sectors including automotive and energy,
revealed that it was diversifying its business
after becoming the sole supplier to charging
point specialist Char.gy. This technology sees
charging points either mounted onto lamp
posts or separate charging bollard units that
can themselves draw from lamp post
electricity supplies.
Sarginsons announced that it will supply
the full unit to Char.gy, including aluminium
castings plus the internal assembly including
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