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KST-Motorenversuch GmbH & Co. KG

KST – Testing Powertrains to Move the Future

For more than 50 years, KST-Motorenversuch GmbH & Co. KG has been synonymous with competence and innovation. 

We accompany our international customers on the path towards the mobility of the future. Our workforce of highly qualified employees masters the continuous and complex process of change in this sector of industry.  We guide our customers in their validation process, through tailored R&D support and specific investments.  

As a family-run, medium-sized business, we ensure that our customers benefit from fast decision making, lean operational procedures, and highly efficient services. 

KST’s range of services include the following areas: 

• Electric / hybrid powertrains

• Power electronics / inverter

• Hydrogen-based powertrains

• Synthetic fuels / operating fluids

• Heavy-duty engines – industry / railway / marine

• Conventional drive technologies

Please feel free to put our services and proposals to the test.  

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RICARDO

With more than 3,000 employees worldwide, Ricardo is a global engineering, environmental and strategic consultancy business. We also manufacture and assemble low-volume, high-quality and high performance products. Furthermore, we develop advanced virtual engineering tools for conventional and electrified powertrains as well as for complex physical systems. Our ambition is to be the world’s pre-eminent organisation focused on the decarbonisation of the global transport and energy sectors. Committed to a sustainable zero carbon future, we are the trusted global engineering services partner for clean, efficient, integrated propulsion and energy solutions for our global transportation customers.
 
In the field of heavy-duty and large engines, Ricardo has a wide range of experience, from research to the support of series programmes. Ricardo provides low-emission, efficient and powerful propulsion system solutions for conventional and electrified powertrains. Ricardo has also developed a wide range of solutions for exhaust aftertreatment to meet European, Japanese and US legislation, and low-cost solutions for emerging markets.

Ricardo delivers concept development, simulation, design work, product development, application, and testing. Our test facilities include more than 30 modern engine test beds for heavy-duty and large engines, battery, e-machine and powertrain testing, enabling us to develop the next generation of low-emission and efficient propulsion systems for commercial vehicles for on- and off-highway, marine, rail, clean energy and power generation applications and meet the standards for future emission and greenhouse gas legislation.