Gareth Roberts

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About Gareth Roberts

Design and Developer of innovative E-motors for electric vehicles. Products have included both the most torque dense and the most efficient motors in the automotive industry. The past 15 years managing high performing teams and delivering innovative propulsion products for electric vehicles. I started in this field in 2010, at the forefront of the current revolution of mainstream electric vehicles!HIGHLIGHTS 2 years Product manager at Edge Drives 3 years Powertrain Mechanical Engineering and electric drives manager at Dyson 7 years Mechanical Engineering manager at Protean Electric12 years Base Engine design lead at Ricardo and Southwest Research Institute3 years Powertrain Systems Engineering at Ford5 Years FEA and CFD engine analysis at Ricardo A proven track record of taking designs from concept to production.Specialities-Design and analysis of Electric Motors and energy storage/batteries.Design and analysis of Base engine components including Cylinder Heads, Cylinder Blocks, Valvetrain and drivetrain components Skills-Mechanical design, management, DFMEA, DVP and requirements creation, simultaneous engineering, FEA, CFD, Six Sigma Quality Systems, Design for six sigma, Testing, Design for manufacture, design for assembly, thermal analysis, structural analysis, Casting design, design of experiments, GD & T, tolerance analysis, metrology, rapid prototyping.Cooling of engines, electric motors and power electronics.