If you’re part of the effort to develop a low-carbon transport future, you should make plans to attend a free seminar on that topic this Friday.

“Burning Rubber: Meeting the energy reduction challenge in the car economy” will be held 2 October at the The Guildhall, Banqueting Room, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW. Registration and coffee begin at 9 am, with presentations set for 9.30 am to 12.30 pm, followed by lunch and networking.

Attendance is free to companies researching and developing low-carbon solutions, low-carbon startups, low-carbon product designers and developers, and investors, executives and advisors who specialise in the low-carbon sector.

To reserve your place at this event, email your name, job title and company name to info@lowcarbonsouthwest.co.uk. Places will be issued on a “first to register” basis.

Reducing the carbon footprint of our personal travel to acceptable levels is a major challenge, especially as the total number of new cars on the road has risen by 17 per cent in the last decade. Such is the impact of the car economy that an increase in fuel efficiency by just 5 per cent would have a major impact on the UK’s carbon emission reduction targets. The “Burning Rubber” seminar will showcase the emerging research and technology solutions in this area and explore how they can be applied to meet the low-carbon challenge in the car economy.

Keynote speaker will be professor Gary Hawley, Dean & Medlock chair of engineering at the faculty of engineering at the University of Bath. Other speakers include Piers Wickman of Carbon Voyage, Mark Charmer of Movement Design Bureau, Robert Hokin of ecoConnect and Dan Ilett, chair of Low Carbon South West and managing editor of Greenbang.

Low Carbon South West is supported by the University of Bath, I-SEE (Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment), Bath Ventures and the Bath & North East Somerset Council.

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