Testing must remain central to automotive development

摘要

Bringing new concepts to market and developing new technologies, such as electrical vehicles, demands a consistent approach to data acquisition and analysis, believes Paul Beardsworth. The automotive industry has always been driven by a strong competitive ethos and the need to develop new concepts that capture public imagination and meet the vast and varied needs of their customers. That need is as strong as ever as the decline of oil stocks leads to increased investment in other technologies as the prime mover.