Tom Negrerie is test engineer at GREENMOT for almost 5 years now. Today, he drags us into his missions within the company, for the benefice of our customers.
Which qualities are a must-have for a test engineer?
You have to be versatile and communicate efficiently with the rest of the team. With customers, a good understanding of physical phenomena in the field of vehicles is mandatory to ensure that the mechanical systems work properly during on-the-test bench trials..
What are your missions?
At GREENMOT, I’m more involved in comparative analyses, i.e. carrying out tests on vehicles of different manufacturers. It means that, if a customer wants to analyse and compare competitor vehicles, they come to us to obtain information on instrumentation and a tests program. We then transpose the tests into our innovative test cell. The results are thus collected and analysed, and delivered to the customer.
What has surprised you most in your career?
What surprised me most was the multitude of vehicle architectures and control strategies that can be encountered when working on hybrid competition analysis projects.
What was your favorite project to work on?
There’s one project that really stood out for me, beyond the benchmark, and that was an endurance project on a powertrain. We didn’t even have a test cell. We designed and developed the test bench in-house, on which we tested the customer’s GMP for several months.
