£20m announced for UK electric vehicle data centre

Posted on 6 Nov 2018 by Maddy White

£20m has been announced to create the UK Mobility Data Institute, a focused research centre to collect, process and analyse transport data generated from autonomous and electric vehicles.

Jaguar will produce EVs – image courtesy of JLR. Following his autumn Budget, Philip Hammond declared that the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) will receive the funding, to enable WMG to create the facility. The announcement was made in the publication of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s full budget, following his Budget 2018…

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