SMMT Award for Automotive Innovation: 2012 competition
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ Award for Automotive Innovation, sponsored by GKN Driveline and supported by The Times, is returning for its third consecutive year.
The Award recognises innovations within UK automotive manufacturing, design and engineering, acknowledging ideas that have already benefitted, or have the potential to deliver excellence in the sector.
Last year, over 30 participating organisations represented the full scale of UK automotive industry, with entries covering passenger cars, engines, buses, coaches, light and heavy commercial vehicles and more. Submissions included a hybrid drive system, an EV charging unit and a sophisticated blind spot detection system. Six entries were short listed and given extensive profile within the automotive industry.
Jaguar Land Rover won last year’s Award for the Land Rover Range_e, an affordable plug-in hybrid 4×4 concept with respectable range. In 2010, it was Gordon Murray Design for the iStream manufacturing process.
The short listed entries for this year will be featured at the SMMT Annual Dinner in November, in front of an audience of 1,000 people, when the winner will be announced.
Call for entries
We are now welcoming entries. We must receive your submission by midnight on 2 September.
The Award is open to SMMT members and non-members, engaged in any aspect of the automotive industry in the United Kingdom. Entries should be for innovations created no earlier than 1 January 2010. Entry is free and open to anyone, be it an individual, team, department or a submission on behalf of an organisation, provided there is a link with the UK sector.
Click here to download the Award for Automotive Innovation 2012 entry form. Completed forms should be returned by e-mail to innovationaward@smmt.co.uk, or by post to: SMMT AAI c/o Dan Montefusco, 71 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BN.
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