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Webinars: Register now for 16 October 'Autodesk Alias Class-A Surfacing: Accelerating Design Development'

Registration is now open for the next Webinar in the Autodesk series, 'Autodesk Alias Class-A Surfacing: Accelerating Design Development', which will take place on 16 October. This webinar will illustrate how using Autodesk Alias for Class-A modeling can deliver value-added business and technical benefits and how it helps OEMs provide seamless end-to-end design development. Topics covered will include: external and internal challenges facing automotive design advantages of Alias for Class-A Surfacing how to adopt Alias skills and workflows This is part of the 2013 series of Autodesk Webinars which includes: Concept modeling for automotive Using the T-rig tool in real life Presenting this Webinar is Simon Alford, technical manager for Majenta Solutions.

Trevor’s Back! TVR sold to new British owner

TVR sold to a new British owner, Les Edgar TVR – once the pride of Blackpool – effectively disappeared from the car scene in 2006 when its Russian owner, Nikolai Smolensky, shuttered up TVR just two years after he bought it from Peter Wheeler and last yeare announced there would never be another TVR. But it now seems TVR has been sold to a British businessman, Les Edgar, who has bought the rights to the TVR name and the right to manufacture parts for existing cars. So far, the only evidence of a return is a new splash page on the TVR website (pictured above) which tells us that TVR are ‘Roaring Back’.

UK electric car sales hit record high

While electric cars may not have taken off as quickly as the likes of Renault and Nissan had hoped, the latest figures from the government’s £5,000 electric car grant scheme show that sales have leapt 25% in the last quarter. A total of 1,149 electric cars were registered in Q3, not only a 25% improvement over Q2, but the most successful quarter since the government scheme began back in January 2011, indicating that consumers are starting to understand the technology and its limitations rather better. On Bing: see pictures of electric cars in the UK Find out how much an electric car costs on Auto Trader This news comes as the Renault-Nissan alliance has been forced to admit it is not going to reach its self-imposed target of 1.5 million electric car sales by 2016.