Jaguar
is investing in the future with a new cutting-edge technology,
innovation, education and development center in the UK. The National
Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC) is designed to create a large-scale
collaborative research environment. It will bring academics from the
UK’s leading universities together with researchers and engineers from
Jaguar and their supply chain, in a single, multi-purpose,
state-of-the-art research facility.
Construction of the nearly $160,000,000 NAIC is scheduled to begin in September 2014 at the University of Warwick.
Around 1000 academics, researchers, technologists and engineers will
work in the building, which will feature engineering workshops and
laboratories, advanced powertrain facilities and the latest advanced
design, visualization and rapid prototyping technologies. Jaguar Land
Rover expects that it will more than double the size of its advanced
research team to 500 people by the time the NAIC opens in 2016.
Dr. Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology, Jaguar Land Rover, said: “Investing in collaboration, innovation, research and education is vital if we want to be on a par with our international competitors. Our future sales success, the success of our global business – and the UK economy – lies in the engineering and innovation that will take place in NAIC.”
Antony Harper, Jaguar Land Rover’s Head of Research, said: “We will announce the details of the specific research projects on which our NAIC research team will collaborate in due course, but these will be long-term, multi-disciplinary challenges – such as electrification, smart & connected cars and Human Machine Interface – which will help us create some key new technologies that will deliver a low-carbon future.”
As well as the skills and knowledge that will be developed within these research projects, NAIC will have a key role in developing the skills of school children and engineering students, who will be able to use NAIC’s laboratories and a dedicated engineering education facility.
Dr. Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology, Jaguar Land Rover, said: “Investing in collaboration, innovation, research and education is vital if we want to be on a par with our international competitors. Our future sales success, the success of our global business – and the UK economy – lies in the engineering and innovation that will take place in NAIC.”
Antony Harper, Jaguar Land Rover’s Head of Research, said: “We will announce the details of the specific research projects on which our NAIC research team will collaborate in due course, but these will be long-term, multi-disciplinary challenges – such as electrification, smart & connected cars and Human Machine Interface – which will help us create some key new technologies that will deliver a low-carbon future.”
As well as the skills and knowledge that will be developed within these research projects, NAIC will have a key role in developing the skills of school children and engineering students, who will be able to use NAIC’s laboratories and a dedicated engineering education facility.
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