GONDWANA is at the forefront of a 4.0 revolution in the automotive industry, providing state-of-the-art product development and homologation testing. Our facility offers comprehensive services within an internationally recognized mobility knowledge precinct, featuring cutting-edge engineering and advanced manufacturing capabilities. Supported by a responsive ‘A’ class supply chain, GONDWANA includes an automotive homologation test site that meets rigorous international testing standards and supports SAE Automation Levels 1 through 5.

Cost Savings and Efficiency

“By consolidating R&D, testing, and advanced manufacturing in one location adjacent to Wellcamp International Freight and Domestic Airport, we eliminate unnecessary travel costs and reduce overhead. Our facility features 22 industry knowledge testbeds with 100 kilometers of dedicated testing circuits, including the impressive 25 km TT Mountain Road Circuit, designed to speed up your product cycles while maintaining cost-effectiveness and challenging your machines.”

Accelerated Time to Market

“Our AI-driven management system optimizes testing schedules and resource allocation, enabling real-time adjustments in the development process. This increased agility means you can move from conceptual design to production-ready execution faster than ever, directly impacting profitability.”

State-of-the-Art 4.0 Facility

“Built on Industry 4.0 principles, our facility integrates cutting-edge technologies such as AI-driven data analytics and real-time feedback systems. Each vehicle component, both hardware and software, is rigorously tested under real-world conditions. Our innovative From-the-Road AI data retrieval system ensures continuous performance insights, opens multiple avenues of new technologies to the imagination, and allows you to refine your vehicles dynamically.”

Testing and Development Environment

GONDWANA’s cutting-edge facility is embedded within an extensive network of 100 km of testing circuits, highlighted by the renowned real-world 25 km Testing Technology Circuit (TT). This exceptional circuit offers versatility, allowing it to be divided into multiple styles of testing. It incorporates fast, sweeping, and undulating sections, as well as demanding climbs and descents, providing a comprehensive testing and endurance environment. The TT Circuit features various types of corners and reaches elevations of up to 200 metres. With two 1.5 km straights and a 2 km straight, it enables testing across a wide speed range, from 15 km/h to 400 km/h. The GONDWANA TT circuit is the epitome of speed, excitement, and challenge—making it the ultimate destination for homologation and prototype development.

Security and Intellectual Property

GONDWANA’s state-of-the-art proving ground is designed to provide exceptional physical and digital security for its mobility advancement tenants. The facility boasts world-leading test house facilities isolated from other tenants, ensuring a secure environment for testing and development. Moreover, GONDWANA features a purpose-built university campus dedicated to mobility research, development, technology, engineering, and design, generating new solutions and fostering collaboration among mobility innovation leaders.

The security of intellectual property is a top priority at GONDWANA. Through meticulous planning of secure systems, site layout, and custom architecture, the facility guarantees leading-edge protection for all valuable intellectual assets. All test tracks are situated within a secure private facility, offering physical isolation and natural or built visual obstructions, further safeguarding against unauthorized access or surveillance.

Advantages of Location

One of the key advantages of GONDWANA is its location in Australia, which benefits tenants by providing security against potential changes in policy, standards, and taxes. The facility operates within the stable framework of Australia’s secure economy and governance, ensuring a consistent and reliable environment for automotive research and development. With long-term customized tenancies, GONDWANA tenants can focus on their work with confidence, knowing that the facility offers stability and security in the face of potential regulatory or fiscal changes.

GONDWANA is dedicated to the development of cutting-edge technology circuits at its 4.0 automotive proving ground. Their primary focus lies in the research and development of quantum computing, specifically targeting the next generation of cyber security and telecommunications. These advancements will revolutionize the transportation framework, enabling artificial intelligence within connected vehicle security, ensuring the efficiency and safety of autonomous vehicles and transport networks, and providing millimetre precision vehicle location and control. GONDWANA is pioneering these technologies from the ground up, integrating them into the design and construction of this state-of-the-art mobility R&D testing facility emphasis on Mobility quantum computing, GONDWANA aims to provide its customers with a significant advantage, delivering new technologies for vehicle design, development, and testing in the fields of artificial intelligence, connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ADAS, telematic systems, traffic congestion, and human and environmental interaction with roadside infrastructure.

GONDWANA’s site-wide fixed and wireless data connectivity will set the global standard through the integration of cutting-edge telecommunication and cybersecurity technologies. These advanced solutions will incorporate state-of-the-art roadside and in-road technology infrastructure, ensuring a secure and robust digital network. With valuable data protections through data encryption, GONDWANA will establish a next-generation system that guarantees secure connections throughout the site. Moreover, customers will have the ability to access real-time performance data and communicate securely with their test vehicles across the complete range of test circuits. This exceptional capability is made possible by the world-first A.I mobility infrastructure data retrieval technology developed by GONDWANA.

To enhance the experience for each customer, GONDWANA’s precinct is equipped with customer Smart Labs/Pits that boast direct connectivity through an unprecedented real-time in-road and roadside data retrieval system. This revolutionary technology is specifically designed to cater to the needs of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 manufacturers. By seamlessly integrating into the infrastructure, each trackside smart lab belonging to OEMs receives direct access to the in-road and roadside data retrieval system, ensuring real-time data retrieval capabilities. Furthermore, this state-of-the-art solution enables the rapid transmission of data, both in real-time and directly, to each OEM’s local and international Research and Development (R&D) Labs or conformance engineers. With this seamless and efficient data retrieval system in place, GONDWANA empowers OEMs and manufacturers to optimize their operations, streamline their processes, and drive innovation in their respective fields.

The integration of advanced technology is evident in the design of all Smart Lab Pits, which are equipped with dedicated entry and exit points to the circuits. The management and announcement of vehicle entry and exit from the circuits are seamlessly handled by control towers. This process is facilitated and monitored through the use of access cards, ensuring unrivalled security and preserving privacy. As a result, the only individuals permitted to observe your on-road capabilities are the designated test drivers and your engineering team. This unique security infrastructure enables multiple OEMs and participants in the homologation industry to operate simultaneously, completely anonymous to one another. This streamlined approach accelerates the testing process and significantly reduces the circuit hiring costs for all tenants involved.

The implementation of this cutting-edge security system has transformative effects on the testing landscape. Its technological advancements enable a multitude of OEMs and participants in the homologation industry to operate in complete anonymity. By removing the need for visibility between different entities, the testing process is accelerated, leading to faster progress and reduced time-to-market for new products. Moreover, this innovative approach yields substantial cost savings for tenants as it dramatically slashes circuit hiring costs. Through the integration of advanced technology, GONDWANA establishes a seamless environment that fosters collaboration, efficiency, and privacy while revolutionizing the testing experience for all participants.

By fostering knowledge connections with esteemed technical universities and establishing comprehensive interconnectivity with global R&D facilities, the unique GONDWANA facility propels itself as a distinguished leader across various domains. This is enhanced by our comprehensive industry support network of cutting-edge engineering, advanced manufacturing and responsive ‘A’ class technology and mobility supply chain capabilities.

GONDWANA’s robust toolchain and simulation capabilities further bolster its prowess, enabling it to excel in real-time simulations, mobility control, engineering, design, testing, research and development, as well as international certified type approval processes.

GONDWANA revolutionises knowledge expansion with its fully digitised and interconnected site, empowered by cutting-edge digital networks that ensure high-speed data links to the global sphere. Leveraging an unprecedented AI mobility infrastructure data retrieval technology, intertwined with full digital-twins of all facilities and AI enabled simulation and analysis, GONDWANA establishes seamless connectivity and real-time analysis with every vehicle on the test circuits, marking a groundbreaking achievement in the field.

Strategically located near the pivotal regional city of Toowoomba, the GONDWANA facility boasts exceptional service connections. Situated along major interstate road and rail routes, GONDWANA enjoys seamless access to transportation networks. Moreover, proximity adjacent to an international freight airport precinct and direct connection to streamlined logistical operations, facilitates swift and efficient movement of goods and services.

GONDWANA is pioneering cutting-edge testing technology circuits at a prestigious 4.0 automotive proving ground situated in the beautiful region of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Spanning across two expansive sites, covering an impressive 1100 hectares, this state-of-the-art facility displays a remarkable level of self-reliance and efficiency. GONDWANA harnesses the power of self-sustainable energy technologies to energize both sites, ensuring a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to operations, meeting the most stringent ESG requirements of our global customer base. GONDWANA’s commitment to self-sufficiency extends to all utilities, including an autonomous water supply system and an innovative recyclable sewerage network. Through these fundamental initiatives, GONDWANA sets a remarkable example for the automotive industry and beyond, showcasing the potential for sustainable development and responsible resource management.