Author: Adam Gavine

Adam divides his time as an editor between the worlds of aviation and motoring. These worlds may seem a little diverse today, but autonomous technology and future urban mobility is bringing them ever-closer. Adam is also chairman of the Vehicle Dynamics International Awards.

VI-grade andi HBK have shared the preliminary line-up of speakers for the Smart Prototypes Summit 2026, which is taking place from 19-21 May in Udine, Italy. The Summit brings together industry experts to explore how smart prototypes serve as a unifying approach to virtual and physical vehicle development

Geely Auto Group has formed a new business entity, Geely Technology Europe (Geely Tech Europe), as a strategy to accelerate its international growth. The group has integrated its main engineering centres in Sweden and Germany, to establish a unified European R&D hub that will engineer new vehicle platforms and work to double managed European projects by 2027

McLaren Automotive has developed a world-first application of a composites manufacturing method from the aerospace industry, scaled for volume supercar manufacturing including the W1. The Automated Rapid Tape (ART) production method produces carbon fibre structures that can be optimised to be lighter, stiffer and stronger via advanced structural optimisation