Ricardo, EXNOVO to offer all-round 2-wheeler development capability

Ricardo, the multi-industry consultancy for engineering, technology, project innovation and strategy, and Italian design house EXNOVO have tied up to provide high quality engineering and design services to the world’s leading motorcycle and scooter manufacturers. With Ricardo’s expertise in state-of-the-art powertrain engineering and vehicle-based integration, development, emission control and refinement, the company frequently finds itself working alongside EXNOVO’s industrial designers providing chassis engineering and aesthetic design for the same customer.
Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) earlier this month, Ricardo will be able to offer an exclusive, combined service, providing a fully comprehensive range of motorcycle and scooter design, engineering and development capabilities up to and including turn-key concept to production implementation programmes. For new customers, the synergies available from the collaboration will be particularly attractive, while existing customers will enjoy the efficiency savings that it will bring, by sourcing the whole vehicle engineering programme from a single partner. 
“The agreement is excellent news for our motorcycle customers in all parts of the world,” said Ricardo’s head of motorcycle engineering Paul Etheridge. “Ricardo is a world leader in the provision of engineering expertise to this sector, in particular in the areas of motorcycle and scooter powertrain technology, design and development and production implementation, and vehicle based integration, development, emission control and refinement. By combining this with EXNOVO’s creative flair as one of the world’s most admired vehicle, aesthetic and industrial design houses, I believe that we can provide a truly unparalleled and comprehensive high quality motorcycle and scooter capability, from component engineering to full, turn-key whole vehicle concept to production programmes.”
“We are excited to be collaborating more formally with Ricardo, after almost six years of continuous and successful cooperation on current projects,” said EXNOVO’s CEO Massimo Lotti. “We are sure that the highly complementary strengths of the two companies make a powerful and compelling offering for the international motorcycle and scooter industry.”

Photograph (L-R): Exnovo co-founders Massimo Cipriani and Massimo Lotti with Paul Etheridge, head of motorcycle engineering at Ricardo.