Key stage passed at WMG’s £150m National Automotive Innovation Centre

The new R&D centre, which will open in summer 2018, will become a crucial facility for developing the UK’s automotive sector including technologies like electric drive, lightweighting and driverless cars. It will be the biggest automotive R&D facility in Europe and is a joint agreement between Jaguar Land Rover, TMETC and WMG.

Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG)’s Prof Lord Bhattacharyya, Jaguar Land Rover’s Prof Dr Ralf Speth and Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC)’s John O’Connor, along with Leo Quinn, Balfour Beatty Group chief executive, and Rosie Drinkwater, Warwick University, marked the milestone on Thursday October 12, 2017 with a specially engraved stone.

The centre (NAIC) will be a centre of excellence and innovation for the automotive sector, providing training and research facilities housing approximately 1,000 scientists, engineers, academics, technicians and support staff working on future automotive technology, including electric vehicles (including energy storage and e-drives); carbon reduction (including hybrids, light weighting and composites); smart and connected vehicles (on-vehicle competence, driver assist and cyber security).