Altran Excellence Centre for new automotive technologies opens in Barcelona

Altran, a global specialist in high-tech engineering consulting, has inaugurated at its head office in Barcelona the Altran Excellence Centre for new automotive technologies that will, within the next five next years, recruit 400 consultants who will join the 2,000 automotive specialists operating in 20 countries around the world. The aim of the global excellence centre will be to concentrate on the group's projects related to innovation and electric vehicle development, offering expertise about electric ve
May 11, 2012 Read time: 1 min
5509 Altran, a global specialist in high-tech engineering consulting, has inaugurated at its head office in Barcelona the Altran Excellence Centre for new automotive technologies that will, within the next five next years, recruit 400 consultants who will join the 2,000 automotive specialists operating in 20 countries around the world. The aim of the global excellence centre will be to concentrate on the group's projects related to innovation and electric vehicle development, offering expertise about electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles and CO2 emission reduction systems.

Altran said it decided to establish its excellence centre in Barcelona because of the wide range of experiences that the group has been able to gain in the automotive industry over the last few years, together with the different initiatives that Barcelona has carried out to promote the electric vehicle that it says has turned the city into a reference point in Spain and within Europe.

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