Jaguar Land Rover is accelerating work on autonomous driving systems with the opening of three new tech hubs.

From 2025, all new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will use the Nvidia Drive platform to deliver a wide array of automated driving and parking systems

The new sites will open in Germany, Italy and Spain and will be used to develop driver assistance systems and artificial intelligence (AI) for the carmakers’ self-driving cars of the future.

The hubs, part of a strategic tie-up with American tech company Nvidia, will augment the existing six JLR tech hubs in the USA, Hungary, Ireland, UK, China and India.

All nine global engineering hubs will provide services and feed data into the Advanced Product Creation Centre in Gaydon, UK, to create Jaguar Land Rover’s next-generation vehicles.

The new locations at Bologna, Madrid and Munich were chosen because of the availability of digital engineering skills in the area. JLR is on a recruitment drive to fill around 100 positions.

Thomas Müller, product engineering director at Jaguar Land Rover, said: “Software is essential for us to deliver a fully connected experience for our clients and creating global engineering hubs will enable seamless hybrid working across several locations and ensure we harness the best talent for our business.”

The carmaker announced in February 2022 that it had formed a multi-year strategic partnership with Nvidia to jointly develop and deliver next-generation automated driving systems plus AI-enabled services and experiences for its customers.

Starting in 2025, all new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will be built on the Nvidia Drive software-defined platform, delivering a wide array of active safety, automated driving and parking systems as well as driver assistance systems. Inside the vehicle, the system will deliver AI features, including driver and occupant monitoring as well as advanced visualisation of the vehicle’s environment.