Aug 2 (Reuters) - Sevcon Inc SEV.O :
* Sevcon adds to on-road project pipeline with four new
contracts
* Says co estimates if customer's production schedule
advances according to plan, contract would be worth up to $40
million in revenue to Sevcon
* Says has started shipments to a chinese automotive
manufacturer, supplying its Gen5 based controller
* Says life of program runs through 2021
* Says production shipments commenced in July
* Says also announced new orders from three European
"high-performance" automobile manufacturers
* Says assuming successful development, start of production
for all three European OEMS would begin in 2018 and end in 2021
* Says in sum, revenues from the European automobile
manufacturers' engineering services contracts are estimated at
about $4.8 million
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