Future since 1983.

#IAV40

We celebrate 40 years of innovation and breakthrough technologies.
Come with us on a journey through the highlights of our company’s history and discover how we became one of the global leading engineering partners for the mobility of the future.

Birthday greetings from the CEO

Dr. Uwe Horn, Labor Director and CEO, looks back on forty years of IAV - and forward

40 years of IAV - the anniversary film

IAV was founded on September 26, 1983 as an affiliated institute of the TU Berlin. Dive into the history with us and meet our founding father Professor Dr. Hermann Appel. Film on!

Artificial intelligence supports engine development

IAV used artificial intelligence at an early stage to make engine development more efficient.

Innovations for the energy transformation

Expertise from the automotive sector can also help solve energy supply challenges. IAV is active in many areas.

Protection against cyber-attacks

Autonomous and connected vehicles are prime targets for hackers. IAV started to develop protection against cyber attacks early on.

IAV develops harvesting robot

In action to save the German strawberry: the IAV harvesting robot at work

Super-Mario at IAV: Technican of passion

Mario Lange has been with IAV since 1987, almost from the very beginning. He is a technician, works council member, bus driver - and all sorts of other things.

Early warning system in wastewater detects viruses and hotspots

IAV has developed a concept for the early detection of viruses and other substances in wastewater. This enables epidemiological situations such as those during the Corona pandemic to be detected at an early stage.

IAV transmits from the stratosphere

Closing radio gaps on the ground with an unmanned platform in the stratosphere? IAV tried it in 2018.

On track to the perfect battery

Better batteries: IAV has been researching high-voltage batteries for electric cars for 30 years and wants to contribute to further improvements in the technology.

Cars become smart: Premiere of connected cars

At CES 2016 in Las Vegas, IAV showed for the first time how cars communicate with smartphones and their surroundings.

From Berlin around the globe

Whether Paris, Tokyo or São Paulo - IAV is represented worldwide with research, production and sales offices.

From career changer to managing director in China

Kaweh Feyzi, Senior Vice President for Vehicle Solutions & Automated Driving, was on assignment twice for IAV in China.

Leave traces and changing the earth's surface

IAV employees take new car models on test drives under extreme conditions all around the globe. Sometimes they leave traces behind them off the track.

Hybrid engine development 90s - UNI 1

More than just a vehicle study: The diesel-electric uni1 as a pioneer of hybrid drive and transmission development at IAV.

Bi-Mot bus: More efficiency with two motors

Complex technology, economical consumption: The twin-engine bi-mot bus reduces fuel consumption and exhaust emissions - a groundbreaking project for IAV.

Full steam ahead into the new millennium

A combustion engine that emits no emissions? In the mid-1990s, IAV raised hopes of an alternative to diesel and gasoline engines with its steam engine.

Environmentally friendly powertrain for Shanghai cab fleet

For emission reasons, the VW Santana in China needed a liquid gas variant in 2004. For IAV, this opened the door to larger projects in China.

Volkswagen T5 CNG - ready for the CO2 challenge

Meeting strict emissions standards before they are even met - the Volkswagen T5 natural gas bus succeeded in doing just that 14 years ago.

"The growth story par excellence for Gifhorn"

In the podcast, journalist Christian Franz from the Gifhorner Rundschau looks back on some thirty years of reporting on IAV.

Gymnastics with a VW Golf - IAV on a secret mission on German TV show „Wetten, dass?"

Gymnastics with a Golf - IAV on a secret mission on German TV show „Wetten, dass..?“

"Bild" newspaper inspects "torture chambers" at IAV

High-tech test rigs were already putting engines through their paces thirty years ago.

Mini: lifestyle and driving pleasure, all automatically

IAV equipped the first Mini with automatic transmission for BMW from 2005 to 2009.

Fully autonomous into the future

IAV got involved with automated driving at an early stage and is driving development forward in many projects.

Swedish turnaround with Volvo

Major order from Volvo becomes IAV's lifeline in a crisis

Eco-Polo – way ahead of its time

Direct diesel injection, particulate filter and G-charger – the Eco-Polo was a pioneer. And with 1.7 liters per 100 kilometers, it was a fuel-saving world champion.

Cape to Cape for Big Data

How much data can a connected car collect? That's what a trip from the North Cape to South Africa in 2014 was designed to find out, supported by IAV.

Vehicle development in virtual environments

Vehicles and other products can now be developed, optimized and tested completely digitally. IAV has already developed a concept for this in 2018.