Low-cost breathing aids developed by Mercedes High Performance Powertrains, University College London and University College London Hospital have been shipped to hospitals around the world in a life-saving partnership. CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) devices were used in the first COVID-19 outbreaks to keep patients off invasive ventilators in China and Italy, but they were in short supply in the UK – and difficult to mass manufacture cheaply and quickly. It took just 100 hours from the first meeting, between Mercedes HPP engineers, and clinicians from UCL and UCLH, to produce the first UCL-Ventura CPAP device ahead of the 2020 season, with Mercedes’ Brixworth factory repurposed to manufacture them.