Vehicles are on a high level of complexity. System understanding is essential for future improvement.

The Center of Automotive Research and Technology uses the approach of an interdisciplinary system view to ensure consistency of the solutions for vehicles and mobility:

• vehicle as mechatronic system
• human vehicle interaction
• vehicle in traffic and infrastructure
• vehicle in society.

The Center of Automotive Research and Technology addresses the research fields

• energy efficiency and low emission
• drivin and working safety
• usability and comfort.

The Center of Automotive Research and Technology benefits from the long experience in research at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe as well as from the implementation of new professorships which will round off the automotive research portfolio. There is specific interest in

• energy storage and conversion
• engines & motors
• powertrain
• suspension and tires
• light weight systems
• innovative materials
• systems for autonomous and collective driving
• systems for improved driver-vehicle interaction
• life cycle management.