Overview

Ricardo is a leading provider of technology, product innovation, engineering solutions and strategic consulting to the world's automotive, transport and energy industries.

Combining business, product and process strategy with fundamental technical research and the implementation of large-scale new product development programmes, Ricardo is able to take on the greatest challenges including business strategy and restructuring, process re-engineering, product design, development, engineering, testing and systems integration.

With a network of advanced and well-equipped technical centres in the UK, North America, Germany and the Czech Republic, Ricardo serves a wide and balanced customer base represented by the leading global automakers, vehicle component and system manufacturers, and automotive regulatory agencies. We also serve motorcycle, heavy duty truck, off-highway, military vehicle, marine and locomotive propulsion system manufacturers, as well as leading teams in all formulae of motorsport.  Our new energy customers cover developers and investors in wind, wave and tidal power systems as well as energy efficiency improvement technologies, micro CHP and fuel cells and their associated control and electrical systems.

The need to minimise the environmental impact of future vehicles is a major driver for our own technology research programme, one of the principal means by which Ricardo maintains its technological edge. Recent benefits of this approach are apparent, for example, in the leading position Ricardo now occupies in the development of hybrid vehicle systems and of clean diesel and gasoline engine technologies offering improved fuel economy, reduced CO2 and low regulated exhaust emissions.  Some of the technology and processes developed in the automotive field are finding rapid application in the new energy sector.

With our commitment to excellence, industry leadership in technology and knowledge, our greatest asset is our people, approximately 70 per cent of whom are highly qualified multi-disciplined professional engineers, consultants and technicians. Together, our vision is to make Ricardo the natural partner of choice for all our customers in all sectors.