Controlled Power Technologies joined other UK companies and delegates attending a low-carbon vehicle mission to India, timed to coincide with the 4th biennial international Environmentally Friendly Vehicle (EFV) conference held in Delhi on the 23-24 November 2009 – an event supported by UNECE (United Nations Economic Council for Europe) and sponsored by the FIA Foundation.
At a seminar held in Delhi on 25 November, Mike Dowsett, senior manager micro-hybrids, Controlled Power Technologies, joined representatives from Ricardo and MIRA in a discussion on the hybridisation of vehicles. CPT’s research and development of an electric supercharger, high efficiency starter-generator and exhaust driven turbo-generator represents the type of technology necessary for the progressive electrification of a conventional powertrain.