Christopher Thorne Email & Phone Number

Wedmore, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Taking over 20 years of experience in the heavy-duty vehicle industry and offering that to the market through my consultancy, Tring Consultancy Ltd.I offer executive-level engineering capabilities, including everything from high-level business strategy through to the resolution of detailed engineering issues. I have sector experience covering on-highway.

Loughborough

• Influenced Caterpillar’s powertrain technology strategy for hauling machines through a programme of collaborative projects. This programme has the potential to deliver significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emission.
• Converted an off-highway hybrid powertrain concept into an on-highway truck form using computer simulation, comprehensively characterised its fuel efficiency performance and compared it to current best-in-class.
• Agreed a work programme, terms, funding and bid support with the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (www.csrf.ac.uk) such that there is an on-going mechanism informing UK and EU stakeholders on road freight market GHG.
• Developed the concept for, supported the contracting of and subsequently managed a project to develop a market-based mechanism to drive the decarbonisation of marine vessels (https://vtas-fes.com).
• Devised and supervised two key strategic pieces of work looking at the GHG benefits of natural gas powered trucks and how zero carbon trucks could integrate with the UK energy system. Both pieces of work were used to.

Loughborough

• Restated the ETI’s Marine Vessel decarbonisation strategy post the loss of a key programme participant, gained buy-in from all ETI stakeholders to move forward with a £10m+ project portfolio and supported the.
• Presented at several national and international vehicle powertrain conferences to generate interest in ETI IP portfolio.
• Performed technical due diligence on all major project outputs within a £50M programme spanning both land vehicles and marine vessels. This covered a very diverse range of topics from hybrid vehicle control strategies.

Loughborough

• Responsible for the delivery of a new technology development programme which aims to improve vehicle-level fuel efficiency by 30%.
• Successfully launched the HDV Efficiency Programme at the ETI, with the launch attended by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable and Caterpillar VP, Tana Utley. The programme was one of the largest programmes within the.
• Recruited and motivated a cohesive and high performing project management and technical team needed to deliver the programme.
• Created collaborative projects that successfully leveraged Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), supply chain and academic capabilities, e.g. the award-winning £4.5M High-Efficiency Selective Catalytic Reduction.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Within this role I was responsible for all the technical aspects of a major diesel engine development programme. This included all areas of the product's performance and all systems on the engine (electronics, fuel system, etc.). I led a large group of technical experts and engineers (approximately 30 individuals) in the specification, design and.

The Systems Engineering Team comprised of a group of 10 highly skilled Engineers who were as comfortable with physical testing as with Computer Aided Methods. The remit for the team was to predict whole vehicle, engine and major system interactions using Systems modelling methods (e.g. Matlab Simulink, Design of Experiments, etc.). The concept for the team.

As a 6Sigma Black Belt I was responsible for process and product improvement projects which included the following: -Production Capability Prediction using Monte Carlo MethodsMilitary Supply Bid DeliveryEngine Transient Response Improvement ProjectEngine Heat Rejection Reduction Project24 Hrs Le Mans Racing Diesel EngineThis role was my first real.

During my first two years at Caterpillar I worked in the area of Engine Performance development. Specifically:-Using and developing Design of Experiment modelling techniques for Engine Performance development and calibrationCombustion Research (multiple injection and partial homogenous charge compression ignition)Performance development of the Perkins.

Msc, Automotive Systems Engineering

Beng, Mechanical Engineering

Physics, Mathematics (Mechanics) And Computer Science