Ola Announces Futurefoundry
27 Enero 2022 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Will invest £100M in creating its global center
for advanced engineering and vehicle design in the UK
Ola Electric, India’s leading manufacturer of EVs, today
announced Ola Futurefoundry, its global center for advanced
engineering and vehicle design. This center will be based in
Coventry, UK, a global hub for the best automotive design and
engineering talent in the world.
Ola Futurefoundry will work in-synch with the design and
engineering teams based at Ola Campus in Bangalore, India. It will
house global talent across multiple disciplines of 2W and 4W
vehicle design, advanced high performance automotive engineering,
digital & physical modeling and more. It will also house talent
that will focus on vehicle R&D around new energy systems
including cell technologies.
Ola will invest £100M over the next 5 years into the state of
the art center and staff it with over 200 designers and automotive
engineers. The centre will also partner with world class education
and research institutions in the UK to collaborate on technology
research and development.
Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Ola said, “At Ola we
are building the future of mobility and continue to attract the
best global talent across disciplines. Ola Futurefoundry will
enable us to tap into the fantastic automotive design &
engineering talent in the UK to create the next generation of
electric vehicles. Futurefoundry will work in close collaboration
with our headquarters in Bangalore, India to help us build the
future of mobility as we make EVs affordable across the world.”
“We want to create a world class design and R&D team with
global sensibilities. Ola Futurefoundry is an important step in
building a multi-disciplinary team that is agile, flexible, and
responsive to the various needs of our consumers around the world.
We are setting up in Coventry a global epicenter of automotive and
technology talent. Futurefoundry will supplement and collaborate
with our core team in Bangalore, India to deliver exciting new EVs
across two wheeler, 4 wheeler and other form factors.” said
Wayne Burgess, Vice President of Vehicle Design, Ola
Electric.
About Ola Ola is India’s largest mobility platform. Ola
revolutionised urban mobility by making it available on demand for
over a billion people across 3 continents. Today, Ola continues to
move the world to sustainable mobility through its ride hailing
platform as well as through advanced electric vehicles manufactured
at its Futurefactory, the largest, most advanced and sustainable
two wheeler factory in the world. Ola also operates its new vehicle
commerce platform with Ola Cars bringing seamless, digital buying,
selling and ownership of vehicles to consumers. Ola is dedicated to
transitioning the world to sustainable mobility and making the
world better than how we found it.
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