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Vehicle Testing Research Division
Vehicle Testing Research Division of China Merchants Vehicle Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the "Vehicle Testing Division") has 70 contract employees, including 51 PhD and master's degree holders. It is a professional, efficient and innovative vehicle technical service team.Equipped with more than 1,000 sets of advanced instruments and test equipment and with a laboratory area of 4,700 ㎡, the division has established a scientific and comprehensive vehicle-level performance evaluation system supported by two professional test sites: Chongqing Motor Vehicle Mandatory Inspection Test Field and the Test Site of China Merchants Vehicle Research Institute Innovation Base.The division is mainly engaged in full-vehicle performance development and verification, import & export certification, vehicle reliability evaluation, environmental adaptability evaluation, low-altitude airworthiness testing, intelligent chassis research and other work. It delivers comprehensive technical services covering test and inspection, enterprise and product access consultation, interpretation of standards, certification and regulations, as well as cutting-edge technology innovation.
It comprises five research laboratories:

1.Advanced Technology Research Laboratory
Intelligent Chassis Stream: It develops and integrates test platforms for vehicle-by-wire brake and steering systems, establishing a new paradigm of closed-loop scenario testing at the full vehicle level for intelligent chassis. Within enclosed test sites, it can reproduce high-fidelity, repeatable extreme hazardous conditions including single/multi-channel brake failure and braking on low-adhesion road surfaces, expanding test coverage depth and test reliability. Full-vehicle functional safety testing capability has been built to support vehicle-level fault injection tests, verifying the effectiveness of safety mechanisms of key systems such as steering and braking under real vehicle operating conditions.

Low-Altitude Airworthiness Testing Stream: Leveraging professional laboratory resources covering aircraft flight performance, flight control systems and environmental reliability, together with supporting facilities including 200 m true-height airspace, vertical take-off and landing points,a 2.2 km runway, meteorological station and anti-UAV monitoring system, it creates an integrated "Laboratory + Test Site + Airspace" test platform. It delivers multi-dimensional technical services of "Testing-R&D-Application" for low-altitude cargo-carrying equipment. Available services include aircraft simulation verification, environmental adaptability, reliability testing and flight tests.

2.Regulatory Testing Research Laboratory
It offers full-vehicle testing capabilities for passenger vehicles, buses, trucks, special-purpose vehicles, trailers and new energy vehicles covering product announcement, operational vehicle safety compliance and China Compulsory Certification (CCC). The test items include vehicle power performance, fuel economy, ride comfort, handling stability, trafficability, brake/ABS performance, performance of tire blowout emergency safety devices, cornering braking, safety requirements for refrigerated vehicles, maximum swing amplitude of vehicle combinations, electronic stability control (ESC) performance, static roll stability, rain tightness, etc.Boasting an experienced technical team proficient in policies, regulations and technical standards, the laboratory provides enterprises with comprehensive and integrated technical services such as technical consultation, test scheme formulation and inspection & testing. It has established long-term technical cooperation with many domestic OEMs and extensively participates in automotive product quality supervision, the development and revision of standards, and other industry technical research activities.

3.Overseas Certification Testing Research Laboratory
Focused on overseas market access for complete vehicles, it provides one-stop full-process certification services including regulation research, certification planning and test verification for vehicle export. With in-depth expertise in major global automotive regulatory frameworks, the laboratory owns technical capabilities for certifications of EU ECE/WVTA, GCC of Gulf region, EAC of Eurasian Economic Union, Southeast Asia and other regions, covering passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, off-road vehicles and other vehicle types.Its team consists of professional overseas certification engineers who have long been engaged in full-chain technical research on overseas certification. Services include regulatory benchmarking, pre-compliance assessment, test project planning, witness test organization, technical documentation compilation and market access regime research. Drawing on cooperative resources with authoritative certification bodies at home and abroad, integrated "Laboratory + Test Site" testing capabilities and a mature project management system, the laboratory accurately identifies compliance risks for vehicle export, effectively shortens certification cycles and controls project costs. It helps clients efficiently break through overseas technical barriers and ensures smooth global market access for products.

4.Vehicle Performance Evaluation Research Laboratory
It mainly conducts research on comprehensive vehicle performance testing and evaluation. It is capable of multi-dimensional full-vehicle assessment covering power performance, fuel economy, brake and steering performance, handling stability, reliability & durability, and ride comfort, and provides technical services for vehicle benchmarking and in-depth performance optimization.The laboratory carries out functional safety evaluation of steering and braking systems, user-correlated vehicle load spectrum development, chassis misuse evaluation, and vehicle reliability verification on accelerated pavements. It supports highland, high-temperature and high-humidity ("Three Highs") environmental adaptability evaluation, generalized domestic road adaptability testing, and special evaluation of brake noise and judder under typical mountain road conditions.It also has complete vehicle-level visual imaging calibration and testing capabilities for functions such as Around View Monitor (AVM), Driver Monitoring System (DMS), and Parking Assist System (PAS). Leveraging China's leading integrated "Laboratory + Test Site" testing capability and abundant public road test resources, it meets demands for customized vehicle R&D verification and product quality improvement.

5.Test Site Management Office
It is responsible for the operation and management of China Merchants Vehicle Research Institute Chongqing Motor Vehicle Mandatory Inspection Test Field and the Reliability Test Field of the Innovation Base. Covering a total area of nearly 800 mu, the test site boasts about 170,000 ㎡ of test roads with a total length of approximately 20 km.It is equipped with various test tracks including straight performance track, ABS track, noise track, test ramps, dynamic square, cornering braking track, accelerated reliability track, ride comfort evaluation track and airbag inadvertent deployment test track. Supporting facilities comprise loading & maintenance workshop, charging piles, fuel supply station, water crossing pond, immersion tank, rain chamber, etc. It can conduct tests on vehicle safety, power performance, fuel economy, ride comfort, handling stability and reliability for vehicles with a maximum gross mass of no more than 55 tonnes and a single axle load up to 14 tonnes.