richard parry-jones: the man in the driving seat of britain's automotive industry - commercial energy storage systems

If Richard Parry
Jones can no longer open his Aston Martin DBS black convertible and will park the beast in the living room.
"It's so beautiful.
I can stare at it all day.
"He also has a black Land Rover for tugboats and horseback riding.
The box and a blue Ford Fox, an interesting car, are fast, he says. Parry-
Jones should know: in 38 years, he was involved in the design of more than 70 cars of all shapes and sizes.
One year of career at Ford: It's his creative genius behind Mondeo-still rated as one of the world's top cars-Focus, Ka, Fiesta, Escort, Galaxy, in the US, puma and Mustang, and the Australian Falcon.
As the group vice president and CTO of Ford's global product development, he is also the owner of Ford Motor.
He is beloved of Aston • Martin (Aston Martin), Jaguar Land Rover (Land Rover), Mazda (Mazda) and Volvo (Volvo ).
Thanks to his mother.
"She likes all the racing sports.
When we were young, we often went to see f1 with drivers like Jackie Stewart.
Then you can go straight to the car and touch them and smell the smell of them parked on the grass-unlike today, they are hidden in the paddock.
We will see the rally cars running in the Welsh forest near where I live and go to the kart.
She became addicted to him very early.
When he decided that the car was his future, he was 10 years old;
When he wrote to Ford about work, when he joined the car,
He is an apprentice studying mechanical engineering at the University of Salford.
"This is still one of the best ways for young engineers," he said, especially now that the cost of a college degree is as high as his DBS. Parry-
Jones retired from Ford about four years ago.
But it wasn't long before he was asked to be the chairman of the board of automobiles, a pioneering body set up by Lord Mandelson to bring all sorts of things-cars-together
Manufacturers, first-class companies and hundreds of companies on the supply chain work together.
This is a rare quasi.
The government's intervention in British industry seems to have worked.
The auto industry is growing faster than any other part of the manufacturing industry, and production of cars and auto engines has returned to previous levels
The economy is in recession and soaring.
I caught Parry.
Last week, before Jones traveled to Atlanta to attend the GKN Board meeting, GKN was one of the UK's most successful manufacturers of automotive and aerospace components and key to the industry's first-line base. He's a non-
Many of his other jobs, including
President of Loughborough University.
You will soon understand why he is called the secret weapon of the industry-it is more like a magic bullet, I would say; he's a petrol-
Go beat Jeremy Clarkson's passion for Top Gear.
"There is no doubt that we are enjoying the Renaissance.
"We still have a long way to go, but in terms of making cars and engines, we are not far from the heyday of 1960," he said . ".
These numbers tell more than one story.
At present, the UK produces 5 million cars and about 150,000 commercial vehicles and 2 vehicles each year.
5 million engine.
This number may exceed 3 million next year.
The industry has nearly 800,000 employees, worth about 50 pounds, accounting for GDP;
Exports are about 8bn, and about 1bn new funds are invested annually in the automotive industry.
Of course, this car
The manufacturer is no longer British;
Only racing experts like McLaren and other F1 manufacturers can make this request.
As he knows in the industry, RPJ is as romantic as the rest of us, because the UK has lost the brand of many foreign owners, and he thinks it makes no sense to cry for past mistakes.
"It is important that some of the best universities in the world conduct the latest and most complex research and development-especially in the low-carbon engineering sector-in the UK.
Our engineers are the best in the world, and overseas companies like Ford and Tata want to come here because they can reach these things firstclass brains.
That's why Ford has set up its R & D center in the UK and the reason for Tata's new plant.
I can continue. "And he does.
"This is the list.
Over the past year, new production plants have been invested in more than 9bn-and there will be more investment.
"The biggest push is Tata's decision --
With Jaguar Land Rover two weeks ago, a new engine plant was built for £ 335, creating at least 750 jobs in Wolverhampton, it is expected that there will be more jobs from all suppliers around the new factory.
In addition to Tata, GM also built the new Vauxhall Vivaro van in Luton;
Aston Martin will produce new Cygnet cars in Gaiden, Warwickshire-another 150 jobs and so on-while MG will produce new MG6 GT Sport designs at Longbridge, designed and assembled in the UK.
And more-India's Optare is building new bus facilities in Yorkshire;
Toyota has just installed the world's first large-scale solar energy to supply electricity to produce models such as Auris and Avensis. Why here?
Even he was surprised by a large number of investors, RPJ said.
"From time to time I turn to companies like Tata, Toyota and even Ford and ask the same question.
Why are you investing in the UK?
What makes it useful to you?
They were all shocked by my question, but said, as if I was a little slow: "because the works in this country are so great, so hard --
Talented staff.
You have the best engineers.
RPJ suggested: "It's a kind of pride that we should be more careful and nurturing.
"It's time to be more self-confidence.
We are so good at knocking on ourselves that we should remind ourselves that we have the best engineering schools and universities in the world and some of the best research.
"Our engineers are so sought after;
They are trained in problem solving, a skill that makes them very valuable in today's highly competitive market where technology can bring solutions to today's energy storage and low-carbon engines
"British engineers are leading in four specific areas: transforming internal combustion engines to improve efficiency-the focus is already 70 miles/minute;
Committed to the combination of battery and gasoline light composite materials and energy storage system, as well as the new energy recovery system used by F1 cars.
Finally, they are good at so-called electronic mechanical technologies-or "wired drive" systems-that are being used to replace heavier institutions such as hydraulic in cars.
"Do you know that there are more than 0. 3 billion software codes in the latest Jaguar XJ? " asks RPJ.
"The code for each function-from the traffic management system that tells the driver if there is a road accident ahead to the steering information.
It is one of the most complex software systems for any car on the market-with an average of about 100 million codes per car-and even more than the complexity of European fighter jets.
Only 12 million codes tell the pilot what to do in the air.
"Believe it or not, the second reason for foreign companies like the UK is that we have established good labor relations with unions such as unions, making the UK's labor force the most difficult one --
He said working and being flexible in the world.
Productivity growth is between 3 and 5 percentage points per year, he said, partly because the labor force in the UK has learned to be more Japanese, lean and mean by reducing waste, they actually keep the workers in their jobs, but they make them more productive.
"People are beginning to realize that almost all manufacturing innovations in the past 50 years have come from the automotive industry.
"In the end, he said, for the first time in decades, the government has finally understood the value of manufacturing.
"The government finally got manufacturing.
They understand that attitude is as important as intervention.
We don't need subsidies or subsidies, but we need consistency in the right approach.
"We don't need rhetoric other than action.
We need the German approach, the government is the backing of the industry, the backing of education, and I will support the tax system as much as possible to work with everything else, rather than constantly changing what has happened in the past.
"One of the best things Ed Miliband can do is that the Labor Party will support Vince Cable and the Minister of automobile industry, Mark Prisk, for all the work that is being done.
Otherwise, if we had a roller, the revival we were enjoying wouldn't last.
Roller coaster method.
"But there are also some problems that the RPJ wants to be addressed, some of which need the help of the government.
He is lobbying to reform the R & D tax credit to increase investment in the UK, especially for capital-intensive manufacturers in the supply chain.
At present, for many overseas companies, R & D credit is for corporate tax, which is invalid.
It cost more than 7bn to drive
Supply chain component manufacturers-only half of the products are made in the UK.
Starting with teaching physics and mathematics, education still needs to be improved-stem skills, he said.
More needs to be done to attract schools
Enter the industrial field through apprentices, as there is also a lack of engineers at all levels, not only here, but also in France and Germany.
One way to convince students to enter the industry is to keep tuition fees in the old structure of all science subjects.
"I know it's radical, but it will keep the pipeline running.
"We have to go to the teacher.
There are too many fallacies.
Too many teachers and the public still think industry is smoke
The chimney is piled up and the salary is very low.
This is not true, the latest survey shows that the average salary of engineers matches the average salary of the financial services industry in their lifetime.
The city has lost too many smart minds, but this may change.
But we must also be asked.
Colleges and industries must also do their part to sell themselves to teachers, career advisors and parents.
"That's why the board of directors and members of Bentley, McLaren, Aston Martin, BMW and others, Jaguar Land Rover and Ferrari, have worked with the Ministry of Commerce, launched the "see in-house manufacturing" campaign-an idea conceived at the Bentley booth at the Paris auto show last year.
The campaign officially began in two weeks, combining around 40 schools and universities to visit factories and production facilities, master classes of automotive experts and undergraduate students.
"If we do this, not only in the automotive industry, but in all industries, I estimate that the manufacturing base in the UK will grow by a few percent in the next few years.
We would like to show what happened at today's workshop and show these children and students how exciting engineering is.
"It's a good idea to get teenagers into the factory, but there's one more: Parry --
Jones deserves his own TV show to inspire outside the conference room-Tomorrow's World will peak.