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Research and innovation: environment and safety
Research and innovation constitute a major priority for PSA Peugeot Citroën. The Group pursues its efforts in this domain essentially all around environment and safety.
To integrate better car into its environment, PSA Peugeot Citroën proposes solutions reducing CO2's emissions and assuring a high level of safety.
Today, more than 18,000 engineers and technicians - in the four R&D centers in La Garenne-Colombes, Vélizy, Belchamp, and Carrières in France - participate in the R&D projects with the conception of future organs and vehicles Peugeot and Citroën. In this context, 821 patents were deposited in 2006.
 To complete this device, the center of design of the Group, the ADN, inaugurated to Vélizy in 2004, includes styling and innovation teams. Covering 70,000 square meters, the ADN notably includes a Virtual Reality Center equipped with the industry's most advanced digital simulation technologies (Cave™, Holobench and Scale 1 screens).
PSA Peugeot Citroën invested €2.3 billion in 2006 for its R&D activities, notably renewal and extension of the ranges Peugeot and Citroën with vehicles with great potential of image and attractiveness.
Research and innovation is focused on:
Developing new vehicle concepts, notably by forging hybrid concepts and components and by re-thinking vehicle architecture.
Attenuating the greenhouse effect. This is a priority for PSA Peugeot Citroën that has already led to substantial progress in the field of engines (HDi diesel engines, new families of engines gasoline) and which opens new avenues of research for commercial development of new technologies over the medium and long term (fuel cells, hybrides, Stop & Start, biofuels).
Enhancing car communication capabilities and safety by continuously improving road handling and safety equipment, such as brakes and suspension, and by relying on latest-generation mobile phone technologies to offer new services for motorists (the emergency call system, navigation...).
PSA Peugeot Citroën's R&D is organised through a Research and Innovation Plan that currently encompasses more than 70 projects concerning all automobile development areas, including architecture, ergonomics and manufacturing processes. Each project is designed to provide the essential input for developing key technologies used in vehicles and their production facilities. |
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