I offer a range of services focused around product compliance and regulatory affairs for all sizes and stages of automotive technologies, products, businesses and markets.

Market & Product Launch

The automotive industry is heavily regulated & thoughtful planning is required to bring a new product or technology to market. Automotive laws, regulations, norms, and government expectations touch on every single department in a company. 

I have specialized helping companies answer “we don’t know what we don’t know” by providing targeted guidance on how to navigate the regulatory landscape and building sustainable teams, functions, processes, and programs.

  • Leadership and staff awareness, and training

  • Market entry requirements, timing, and budgets

  • Lessons learned & risk management

  • Building internal teams or identifying the right external partners and services

  • Delivery of product compliance, regulatory affairs, regulation tracking and government funding/incentives

Product Compliance

Product Compliance directly affects the ability to sell a product so is a critical and complex function of any automotive business. Over the last 25 years I have successfully completed product compliance of dozens of new vehicles & variants enabling sale to markets around the world.

  • FMVSS, CMVSS, ECE, EU, ADR, GCC and other market certification / type approval support

  • Requirements and test case management (Excel, JAMA, Polarion)

  • Design compliance and interpretation

  • Test plan creation and management

  • Documentation creation and management

  • Conformity of Production 

  • Supply chain requirements (Parts marking, EPR, IMDS, UFLPA etc.)

  • Labels, owners guides, customer documentation

  • Vehicle Identification Number

  • Best practices, policies and procedures

Regulatory Affairs

In addition to meeting product focussed regulations, automotive companies must implement a range of regulatory processes within the organization and engage with appropriate government agencies as they bring a product or technology to market.

  • Registrations & reporting

  • Future regulation analysis and strategies for product plans

  • Guidance and support with government meetings

  • Exemption and interpretation requests

  • Safety defects and recalls

  • Service and after-sales

  • Vehicle and component importation

  • Product safety

  • Product warranty

  • Bus testing, Buy America, DBE and transit related programs

  • ESG initiatives and requirements

Regulatory & Legislative Tracking

I provide the most comprehensive tracking reports to dozens of vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and trade associations. These reports give invaluable insight into U.S. legislative and regulatory actions that affect the automotive industry.

U.S. Regulatory & Legislative Update

Monthly report on the latest legislative and regulatory topics.

The Reg Update

Regulatory history of all US automotive regulatory agencies and rulemakings from the last 20 years.

Congressional Tracking Summary

Tracking federal legislation affecting the auto industry.

Incentives & Funding

Governments don’t only regulate, they also provide a range of incentives and funding to the automotive industry to drive job creation, technology development and implement policy priorities. I have assisted companies in the identification and delivery of 10’s of millions of dollars of incentives and funding.

  • Commercial vehicle purchase incentives (HVIP, NYTVIP etc.)

  • Vehicle procurement grants and funds

  • Grants, tax credits, and loan authorities for R&D and manufacturing

  • Regulatory credits

  • Government procurements

  • Economic development projects for manufacturing locations