CHIEF engineer of special projects for Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., Fraser Dunn, is leaving the company to join the Project Arrow team as chief engineer.

Project Arrow is developing the first Canadian-made, zero-emission, autonomous vehicle.

Mr Dunn worked at Aston Martin on vehicles including the Vulcan and Valkyrie hypercar.

He is now leaving Aston Martin and joining the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association (APMA) project full-time.

“He’s going to take the dream and build it,” Flavio Volpe, president of the APMA told Automotive News.

Currently, over 335 Canadian companies have promised $100 million towards the project, he said.

Project Arrow is an all-Canadian effort, being designed, engineered, and built by the country’s automotive supply sector and post-secondary institutions in answer to the Canadian prime minister’s call for a zero-emissions future by 2050.

Project Arrow is the APMA’s third-generation of innovative industry collaboration projects since 2014, when it launched the Connected Lexus Technology Demonstration Program together with 14 independent Canadian firms.

In 2017, the APMA launched a fleet of demonstration vehicles in Stratford, Ontario as part of Ontario’s Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network and is currently working with more than 90 auto tech start-ups.

Two of those vehicles drove more than 3600km from Toronto to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2020 to launch Project Arrow at CES 2020.

By Neil Dowling