Next
year will see completion of Ricardo’s £10 million Vehicle Emissions Research Centre
(VERC) the company is building in conjunction with Horiba UK.
With its new facility
Ricardo will be able to offer companies such as JaguarLandRover (JLR) and other
vehicle builders the capability to test new vehicles for a global market to far
more extreme limits than would previously have been possible.
Ironically, Ricardo, Horiba
and JLR already have a close working harmony. Horiba UK is one of JLR’s principal
suppliers of emissions testing equipment with Solihull and Whitley being recent
recipients of equipment; Ricardo is JLRs’ preferred supplier for bespoke
powertrain assignments and Horiba UK and Ricardo are now united in this
ground-breaking research facility that is expected to be compete in the second
half of 2014.
