April 23, 2013

BMW Group and NTU set up first joint research lab in Southeast Asia




BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) today launched the joint Future Mobility Research Lab, the first for BMW Group in Southeast Asia.

This new research facility will study and develop key areas relating to future transportation, which includes advanced battery materials for electric vehicles, human-machine interfaces, and mobility patterns and concepts. A key focus will see how research outcomes can benefit the Asian market based on the needs of the region.

NTU now joins seven other prestigious universities such as the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as partners to the BMW Group in setting up joint labs.