Advanced Electric Machines

2021’s petrol shortage illustrated how reliant we can be on our cars. No sooner than the shortage was rumoured, long queues appeared outside filling stations up and down the country. And as tailbacks grew, so did the number of idling engines, each releasing damaging pollutants into the air.
 

Investing in low carbon energy solutions we know we need

For Advanced Electric Machines, the aim is to do away with these traditional engines and instead replace them with the most sustainable electric powertrain technologies in the world. Their electric motors provide market leading performance and remove rare earth materials without any compromise on performance.

That’s not just in passenger cars, either. Advanced Electric Machines designs and manufactures magnet-free motors for commercial vehicles like lorries and trucks, off-highway applications like construction or agricultural vehicles and for the marine and aerospace industries, too.

Advanced Electric Machines began life in Newcastle University and was then ‘spun out’ in 2017, commercialising the years of university research, creating a fast-growing business from their findings by bringing cost effective and production ready products to market.

Venture capital firm Northstar Ventures has backed the company since its early stages and was instrumental in turning what was a research project into a viable and flourishing business. Northstar specialises in finding fledgling, high growth businesses and provides advice and support as well as money – and particularly to those in England’s North East.

Their financial backing and business guidance has helped Advanced Electric Machines to grow and create 40 jobs, continue to develop their innovative and world-leading electric motors and enter into product development programmes with organisations across the globe, including Bentley Motors and CNH Industrial.