BizJournals.ComVolkswagen of America will donate $5.75 million to Stanford University to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL), on the Stanford University campus, and a new program for supporting automotive teaching and research. The VAIL and corresponding CarLab research and teaching program housed at VAIL, will help to accelerate automotive-related research on campus by increasing the opportunities for collaborations between VW and Stanford and by building a global community of academic and industrial partners committed to the future of automotive research.
Volkswagen will donate $2 million to Stanford to construct the building housing VAIL and will provide $750,000 a year for five years to fund research and teaching activities in Stanford’s CarLab, an interdisciplinary research center, based at VAIL. The VAIL facility will be housed in a new 8,000 square-foot lab located near the corner of Stock Farm Rd. and Campus Drive West. The facility will include shared high-bay space with lifts, machine and composite shops, and meeting rooms. It will also include outdoor test-driving space.
