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Greg Harris is right at front end of the latest developments on the road to net-zero.\xa0
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\n\n\nAs Global Electrification Services Leader at HORIBA MIRA, his role includes developing strategy around electrification.
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\n\n\nBest known as the UK industry\u2019s first vehicle test track\xa0 - called the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) opened in 1949 on a former airfield in Leicestershire -\xa0 Greg chats over lunch with Leon Daniels about its development into a private company, now owned by HORIBA, and how today it is much more than test track, with 46 different test facilities on the site.
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\n\n\nThey chat about HORIBA MIRA\u2019s role in engineering consultancy \u2013 across the whole of automotive engineering \u2013 and the potential for re-engineering commercial vehicles as we move to net-zero.
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\n\n\nThey discuss whether we\u2019ve reached the \u2018tipping point\u2019 for electric vehicles to become commercial propositions, before moving onto subsidies, trade tariffs and how the government could replace the \xa328bn it raises each year from fuel duty.
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\n\n\nThey also chew over what tactics the government could use to boost the take-up of zero-emission vehicles.
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\n\n\nThanks to his role, Greg is part of the wider engineering \u2018family\u2019 that links up around the world, and the conversation moves on to the hydrogen fuel cell v. battery-electric debate, reminiscent of the Betamax v VHS \u2018battle\u2019 of the 1980s.
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\n\n\nThey also chat about job opportunities for young people in engineering as a result of the push to develop technology in the UK, and HORIBA MIRA\u2019s links with education.