KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii) plans to facilitate technology transfer for local vehicle development via the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC 2021), which will be held from May to November this year.
Chief executive officer Datuk Madani Sahari said the transfer of technology from telematics, data benchmarking and other relevant areas of the racing series would be used to advance future mobility technology.
"We are using this platform to further collect data to validate the systems and modules that we are developing for the purposes of commercialising systems such as telematics, advance driving assistance system (ADAS) and vehicle automation," he said after announcing the technology transfer agreement with Perodua, Persona Energy Sdn Bhd, and JOTA Sport Racing Team here, on Tuesday.
Under the partnership deal, Malaysia will be sending four apprentice engineers to the WEC 2021 to learn all they can.
The four would be part of the JOTA Sport Racing Team from Britain that will compete in this year's WEC racing series.
Persona Energy executive director Jazeman Jaafar, a racer himself, was announced as the reserve and development driver to the JOTA Sport's team.
