The five-storey ACE Core Research Facility is the first commercial automotive research, development and innovation centre of its kind in the world. This is a place where industry partners, researchers and students collaborate to create, test and validate transformational innovations with a focus on bringing them to market as rapidly as possible. ACE has an array of testing equipment, including one of the largest and most sophisticated climatic wind tunnels on the planet.

ACE enables the effective combination of knowledge and practical experience to create synergies across disciplines and skill sets, leading to a stronger manufacturing economy in Canada. At the same time, ACE helps educate and train the skilled personnel needed to take the automotive industry and manufacturing to new levels of competitiveness and success.