Lunaz Applied Technologies quadruples footprint of Upcycled Electric Vehicle campus as part of global expansion

Lunaz today announces the establishment of its expanded electric vehicle upcycling campus at Silverstone Technology Park, Northamptonshire.

The upcycling and electrification plant, the first of its kind in the world, adds 140,000sqft to the company’s existing facilities, quadrupling Lunaz Applied Technologies (LAT)’s footprint for the upcycling of diesel-powered industrial vehicles by restoring them to warrantied-as-new condition and converting them to full electric power.

LAT’s expanded upcycling campus is the largest company within the Silverstone Technology Cluster by space and employees. It is the first facility of this kind in the world to focus purely on the upcycling, re-engineering and electrification of industrial vehicles such as recycling trucks at scale.

The new upcycling and electrification industry responds to the need to find more ecologically viable and cost-effective solutions to transition the more than 2bn vehicles that currently exist to clean-air powertrains, following the banning of the sale of new Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles globally within the next decade.

In expanding its upcycling campus, Lunaz will create more than 300 new jobs, and is actively recruiting across both manufacturing and electric vehicle specialisms to support its growth. Lunaz now ranks as one of the fast-growing companies in Britain.

As well as supporting Europe’s largest fleet operators and several authorities around Britain in achieving their net-zero efforts, LAT has invested in technology to reduce its own environmental footprint.

The new upcycling campus will be highly thermally efficient and use heating powered by sustainably-generated electricity, all tools used by production experts will be battery-operated and vehicle ramps will be fitted with a kinetic energy recovery system to minimise power usage.

When repurposed into Upcycled Electric Vehicles (UEVs), these end-of-life vehicles are cleaner, less expensive and better-equipped than their all-new equivalents, helping fleet operators and authorities reach their net-zero goals.

Independent research commissioned by LAT shows that upcycling a vehicle saves over 80% of its lifetime embedded carbon when compared to replacing a vehicle with an all-new equivalent.

David Lorenz, founder of Lunaz, said: “This landmark project represents a huge step forward for LAT and the wider drive towards clean-air mobility… We’re backing our own technology, processes and people, and making a powerful statement of intent for our vision.”

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