Dr Nick Baker and Dr Richard Crozier presented two e-Drive project updates at the SuperGen UK Centre for Marine Energy Research (UKCMER) Annual Assembly on December 5th 2018 in Edinburgh.  Dr Baker presented a comprehensive summary of all aspects of the project including generator design architectures, power electronics and magnetic gears as well as the tank testing planned with the Carnegie Clean Energy scale buoy at Flowave test tank, to commence early 2019.  Dr Crozier presented his full stack open source simulation tools for wave energy systems and permanent magnet generators. The full suite of tools and documentation are now available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rnfoundry/.