Future focus

Tata Motors has made a GBP 30 million investment in a new British innovation center, reinforcing their long-term commitment to R&D (research and development) in the UK. "India’s largest car manufacturer will join sister company Jaguar Land Rover and Warwick University’s Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) in creating the GBP 100 million National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC) in Coventry,” states the Engineer of the UK on December 3, 2013. The information was forwarded to Parsiana on email by reader Minocheher Damania.

UK’s National Automotive Innovation Campus: researching new vehicle technologies

The NAIC is scheduled to open in 2016 and will have over 900 engineers and scientists developing new technologies to cut the dependence on fossil fuels and reduce CO2 emissions. "Our teams in India and in the UK complement each other in academic excellence and product experience and we see the UK as a global hub for innovative and low carbon automotive technologies, which will benefit our customers,” stated Dr Tim Leverton, head of advanced engineering, Tata Motors. The Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) which is presently based at WMG on the university campus, would use the NAIC for research and new vehicle concept development.