Introducing Ian Cooke – the newest addition to the team!
Ian has over 12 years of experience working on cutting edge research, test and development projects for world-championship winning Formula One teams during his time at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, high-profile tech companies, tier one suppliers and automotive OEMs.
Ian will lead the Testing and Development as…
CARNOT are pleased pleased to announce our partnership with Dunbar Race Engineering as we aim to produce our proof-of-concept prototype in 2021. Lead by Duncan Dunbar a Mechanical Design Engineer with extensive experience in the Motorsport industry; having worked in Superbikes, MotoGP, Formula 1 and Historic racing. Formerly an Engineering Team Leader at Mercedes AMG HPP. Amongst other specialities,…
Francis Lempp - Co-Founder
Carnot was co-founded by entrepreneurs Archie Watts-Farmer, Francis Lempp and Nadiur Rahman. Their aim is reduce global co2 emissions by 13% and bring clean, secure and affordable energy to all. To better understand Carnot and gain an insight into the companies’ motivations we carried out interviews with its co-founders, following this series we interviewed…
Tom Rhodes
Tom Rhodes – Senior Technical Adviser. A former Head of Design for Dearman, an innovative startup company creating a zero emission (at point of use) liquid nitrogen powered engine. Tom has spent his career focusing on component and assembly design from complex one off specialist testing equipment to high volume high performance automotive products.…
Ian Thatcher - Sensor Design Engineer
Introducing Ian Thatcher – the newest addition to the team!
Ian has over 22 years of experience across a wide spectrum projects; from cradle-to-grave designing of high performance motorcycle engines in mass production whilst at Triumph Motorcycles Limited to the design and manufacture of one-off research engines during his time at MAHLE Powertrain. Ian…
Dr Ed Wood
Ed Wood – Senior Technical Adviser.
Former Chief Designer for Williams Formula One. Started in 1987 as a mechanic in F1 motorcycles, Superbikes and MotoGP until 1990 when he went on to the TWR Jaguar Group C and Le Mans cars. After picking up his two degrees he became a R&D Engineer for Ferrari until 2000…
Paul Cotton
We are pleased to welcome Paul Cotton as a key technical consultant for CARNOT. Paul spent 25 years at Rolls-Royce holding numerous senior leadership positions including Chief Design Engineer Future Programmes. Paul is the Director of Quancho Limited and currently holds board advisory positions across organisations such as Quick Release (Automotive) Ltd and EGE Engineering Services Ltd. Paul has…