The man with the golden wrench: James Bond car engineer joins Canadian effort to build a Tesla north Auto A-team tasked with creating zero-emissions car with a $50,000 price tag that regular Joes might actually want to buy
Author of the article: Joe O Connor
Publishing date: May 06, 2021 • 2 days ago • 9 minute read • Fraser Dunn, chief engineer of special projects for Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., pictured with the Valkyrie, a supercar, made for billionaires. Dunn is quitting Aston Martin to join Project Arrow, a Canadian effort to build a zero emissions car for families and create a Tesla north. Photo by Richard Pardon
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Project Arrow is underway.
The call has gone out at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year for suppliers to help build an all Canadian EV. The futuristic car in question is the winning design for a competition set by Canada s Automobile Parts Manufacturers Association to design a national EV concept. It was created by Carleton University s School of Industrial Design in Ottawa, Ontario, and is set to be built this year.
Currently, the electric crossover is dubbed Project Arrow, and in true CES style, AI is being used to assess likely suppliers and narrow down the search. APMA APMA
Carleton University students win contest for their design of an electric car
A group of four students won a national contest created by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) to build a Canadian electric car by 2022
Rendering: Carleton University’s School of Industrial Design
December 17, 2020
A group of four Ottawa university students won a national contest for their design of an all-Canadian zero-emissions electric vehicle.
Kaj Hallgrimsson, Jun-Won Kim, Mina Morcos, and Matthew Schuetz are students at Carleton University’s School of Industrial Design. Their design of a mid-size sports utility vehicle beat out nine complete entries, out of a total of 20 entries from across Canada.