The automobile is likely the most regulated, sophisticated, competitively sold and widely used machine in the world.
OEMs and Tier Ones, in the Vehicle and Transportation industries, often find compliance with onerous and complex regulations to be challenging to manage and a critical element of their enterprise. While Fortune 500 companies generally have large internal teams, to work through the related Certification and Product Development (PD) processes, smaller and emerging automotive product and technology companies often do not have this specific institutional knowledge or these dedicated internal resources.
Pilot often acts as the Regulatory Compliance Management Office for these smaller and startup automotive companies. Pilot specializes in helping OEMs and Tier Ones to manage regulatory compliance in areas including emissions (EPA, CARB, ZEP, HVIP) and safety (NHTSA). Pilot is skilled at achieving compliance in grey areas of the regulatory codes.
Pilot has accomplished the emission regulatory compliance (EPA and CARB) of multiple classes of Zero Emission Vehicles. On the face of this statement, this should be straight forward. However, the process still involved man-months of work to define, obtain agency acceptance of and then accomplish the required and detailed Certification Plans and testing.
Pilot uses their proprietary Regulatory Compliance Process, CertTrac, to manage these demanding efforts.
We recognize that the requirements associated with regulatory compliance often overlap (and occasionally conflict) with a wide range of diverse and related vehicle requirements. Our in-house Pilot Automotive Regulatory Compliance (PARC) group has the required expertise for compliance success.