Coventry & Warwickshire is located at the heart of the Midlands automotive cluster, the main UK auto cluster. Tracing its origins back to the arrival of the car in Europe over 120 years ago, the area is home to 35 automotive and off-highway brands, including 12 vehicle manufacturing sites, and 15 R&D centres, maintaining and developing a unique mix of skills and supply chain in automotive design and engineering. The area is particularly strong in R&D activity, in low carbon electric and hybrid powertrain technology, light-weighting and CAV (Connected & Autonomous Vehicles). These activities are driven forward by investment from local car makers, leading university research, a unique cluster of skills and access to cutting edge innovation and technology.
It is internationally recognised as a major automotive design and engineering centre, and is a key supplier of vehicle components and home to the global headquarters of Jaguar Land Rover and the Jaguar Land Rover Engineering Centre. More recently, the area has become a leader in the development, understanding and deployment of electric vehicles and intelligent mobility.
We are proud to have world-renowned companies such as Tata Motors, Aston Martin, Dennis Eagle, London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC), Detroit Electric, BMW, Peugeot Citroën, Geely and Volvo in the region, along with being at the heart of the automotive supply chain, with Brose, Bosch, Eberspacher - Coventry, Lear and Delphi Lockheed in the area.
