Cars are complicated items theses days and with increased complexity comes the higher risk of something going wrong.
ut Jaguar Land Rover claims it has come up with the answer to ensuring gadgets won’t do so. It has built an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) laboratory at Gaydon.
It says that it will help vehicles meet current and future legislation and quality standards for connectivity
and electronics.
And the brand’s new Range Rover Sport is the first of the JLR stable of vehicles to be put through a testing programme at the in-house facility.
The laboratory can test if electrical equipment and systems work correctly under electromagnetic interference.
At its core is the laboratory’s two anechoic chambers which replicate the car’s noise at road speeds and equipment to analyse batteries and electric motors.
It is all designed to make sure items such as Bluetooth, GPS, wi-fi, 4G, 5G, adaptive cruise control and wireless charging will work in tough circumstances.
