Automotive Testing

Testing and homologating vehicles are essential to ensuring safety on the road, especially in today's rapidly evolving mobility ecosystem, where the integration of technologies has transformed vehicles into complex systems. Electrification, driving automation, and connectivity are reshaping the automotive industry, and with it, the types and number of tests that must be performed on vehicles, automotive components, and their infrastructure to guarantee a safe and secure operation.

Increasing standards and mandatory regulations in the automotive sector require more robust testing plans and thorough homologation programs. As a result, market access of automotive vehicles and products is gaining in complexity and cost globally. This increasingly impacts the commercialization process for OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, and other automotive-related companies.

The Impact of Electrification, Driving Automation and Connectivity

The establishment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the emergence of technologies such as Connected Driving, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Automated Driving, and Autonomous Driving have revolutionized transportation. This transformation has significantly increased the variety and number of tests required for vehicles.

In addition to traditional evaluations, such as automotive tests for lights, emissions, passive safety and crash testing, new tests for electrical and electronical components have become essential - for example for ADAS & AD systems. These tests include ensuring the security of network-connected components of EV systems and their batteries and charging stations, which often also handle sensitive personal data.

For this reason, besides Vehicle Homologation and conventional testing in Product Safety, such as guaranteeing appropriate levels of electromagnetic and radiofrequency emissions, automotive cybersecurity testing has become critical to ensuring the reliability, safety and security of modern vehicles.

DEKRA: Your Partner in Automotive Testing Solutions

DEKRA is an expert in testing and validating automotive components and vehicles. Our expertise, laboratory and proving-ground footprint also extends to testing electric vehicles (EVs), EV charging stations, EV batteries and mobility technologies such as V2X, C-V2X and ADAS, automated driving, connected driving, and autonomous driving functionalities. In addition, we are recognized as Technical Service under the UNECE framework. We can provide Conformity of Production, In-Service Compliance and Market Surveillance in our own premises (contracted via EU counties Type Approval Authorities). For Vehicle-, Components- or Systems- Type Approval according to UNECE regulations and its safety requirements we can test as Category “A” laboratory in EU or perform witness testing globally (as Category “B” Technical Service) and provide holistic compliance reports for manufacturers’ applications or extensions in their system as well as whole vehicle type approvals.

Our support in your journey

We support you in different stages of your product lifecycle:

Verification & Validation

We help you to verify and validate your product in the early stages of its development. We certify and homologate your product according to market regulations and standards.

Operation & Maintenance

We test your product to ensure it operates safely and meets specific industry requirements.

DEKRA’s Automotive Heritage and Global Reach

With a 100-year heritage in the automotive sector, DEKRA boasts a global network of laboratories, strategically distributed in key automotive industry locations, dedicated to supporting the mobility ecosystem through various specialty areas.

Automotive Heritage

Ensuring safety on the road since 1925

Global Reach

Global network of test laboratories located in 3 continents and 10 countries

Your Partner in Automotive Testing Solutions

DEKRA is an expert in testing and validating automotive components and vehicles

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E-mobility Testing

Testing and certification for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure technology

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ADAS & AD Validation Testing

Testing Tomorrow’s Technologies Today