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Rachel Thomson and Guy Pross from Better Place talk with Richard Reilly, CEO of Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers (FAPM) discuss the fully Electric Commodore Prototype by EV Engineering. EV Engineering is a collaborative venture between leading Australian automotive suppliers, Air International, Bosch, Continental, Futuris, GE and electric car infrastructure provider, Better Place, to develop a proof of concept Australian electric vehicle. The project goal is to demonstrate the technical viability and attractiveness to customers of a large electric vehicle. If successful the project will allow technologies to be considered for possible future mass production and will help to develop electric vehicle engineering skills and components within the Australian supplier industry. The Australian Government's Green Car Innovation Fund will contribute $3.55m to the project. www.evengineering.com.au/ Innovate Showcase 2012 had over 400 square metres of space in Sydney's Olympic Park Showground within the Austech exhibition. Austech is the best manufacturing technology forum for exhibitors to display their latest products and services and demonstrate how these technologies can deliver productivity benefits to manufacturing. The Innovate Showcase is designed to bring together industry professionals in a relaxed environment to, expose and connect businesses to opportunities in a number of key industry sectors and offer a chance to explore possible business opportunities through supply chain service solutions. The Innovate Showcase is an AMTIL (Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Limited) initiative that has been sponsored by leading organisations Interlease providing finance solutions to manufacturers, Deloitte one of Australia's highest performing professional service providers and QMI Solutions specialist service providers to manufacturing in Queensland. For more information got to www.amtil.com.au