About American Center for Mobility

Our Vision

To enhance the quality of our lives through the enablement of future mobility solutions.

Our Mission

To transform the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies through our one-of-a-kind global development center.

Our Values

Infectious Enthusiasm– We want our stick-to-itiveness to our mission to be contagious and a catalyst for advancing the mobility industry

Reciprocity & Respectfulness– We are mindfully aware in our engagements with others and invest in relationships that endure and give back.

Growth Through Partnerships – Through our partners’ success, begets our success. Our ecosystem promotes prosperity.

Delivering on Commitments – We are accountable to our stakeholders and the commitments we make.

A Global Development Center for Mobility

ACM offers a one-of-a-kind global development center to transform the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies.

Located in Southeast Michigan on over 500-acres at the historic Willow Run site in Ypsilanti.  ACM offers: an Advanced Mobility Proving Ground with test environments featuring specialized infrastructure, equipment, facilities and resources; An innovation and technology campus with an industrial tech park for the co-location of mobility companies; Event and demonstration areas for showcasing mobility technologies and convening industry activities.

ACM offers:

An advanced mobility proving ground provides a safe platform for the integration, testing, and validation of connected, autonomous, EV vehicles, and mobility technologies

An innovation and technology campus for the co-location and incubation of mobility companies and activities

Event and demonstration areas for showcasing connected and autonomous vehicle technologies and convening industry activities

The American Center for Mobility is open to private industry, start-ups, government, standards bodies, and academia.

Accelerate the research, development, testing and validation process of mobility products and technologies in a safe and re-configurable environment

Support industry standardization and policy requirements of mobility products and technologies

Empower talent development through education and immersion with mobility products and technologies in partnership with our separate 501c3 ACM Foundation

News & Events

For press and media inquiries please contact our marketing & communications department: [email protected]

Michigan Governor @GovWhitmer is a strong advocate for clean hydrogen and part of a bipartisan group of elected officials across the Midwest supporting #MachH2.

12/06/2022

“The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen is a bold project to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions from industry and transportation through deployment of clean hydrogen.  Through partnerships with Michigan partners like American Center for Mobility, Flint MTA, and the Port of Detroit.  MachH2 will create good-paying jobs and reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions,…

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ACM is an Alliance Member to the Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen

11/09/2022

 “The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen is a bold project to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions from industry and transportation through deployment of clean hydrogen,” said Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “Through partnerships with Michigan partners like the American Center for Mobility, Flint MTA, and the Port of Detroit, #MachH2 will create good-paying jobs and reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions,…

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Automotive Testing Expo is the world’s leading international expo for every aspect of automotive testing, development and validation technologies, taking place every year in Detroit, Shanghai and Stuttgart.

10/27/2022

 In America, as elsewhere, Automotive Testing Expo is the leading event for the technologies and services in ADAS and autonomous vehicle testing, electric and hybrid powertrain testing, battery and range testing, EMI and NVH test and analysis and the full spectrum of test and validation technologies for full-vehicle, component and systems development. Stop by booth…

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Delta Demonstrates 400kW Solid State Transformer-based Extreme Fast EV Charger to Partners GM, DTE Energy, NextEnergy, Virginia Tech’s CPES, American Center for Mobility and U.S. DOE

10/14/2022

“We need to get to higher power charging so that EV owners get the best refueling experience and can get to where they are going faster.” said Reuben Sarkar ACM CEO, “Delta’s 400 kW extreme fast charger, enabled by ACM’s power infrastructure, is showcasing what the future has in store for EV charging.” Follow Delta…

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2022 Detroit Auto Show, AutoMobili-D, ACM, BayoTech and 2024 Ford Mustang Reveal.

09/21/2022

It all started four weeks ago… ACM’s Test Track & Smart Mobility campus is usually used for AV, Connected and Electric vehicle testing, but also utilized for product showcasing in video shoots.  Several key ACM locations were used as backdrops for a new vehicle launch at the 2022 NAIAS.  ACM managed and help produce along…

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BayoTech Expands Distributed Hydrogen Network into Michigan in Partnership with American Center for Mobility

09/13/2022

“Hydrogen is fueling the future of transportation. We congratulate ACM for being innovators in seeking out the infrastructure to support automotive OEMs’ fuel cell vehicle commercialization activities,” said Adam Penque, BayoTech’s SVP of Sales & Hydrogen Hubs. “We’re proud to partner with ACM to launch our latest hydrogen hub location.” “Hydrogen has a crucial role to…

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‘Mobility for All’ Comes to the American Center for Mobility

09/01/2022

Test road named ‘Mobility4All Parkway’ in recognition of Toyota’s five-year anniversary of becoming ACM founding sponsor. YPSILANTI, Mich. (Aug. 24, 2022) – Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) and the American Center for Mobility (ACM) today unveiled “Mobility4All Parkway” as the new name of a test road at ACM’s Smart Mobility Test Center. Toyota was granted naming rights…

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First-of-its-kind hydrogen hub planned at American Center for Mobility

08/22/2022

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/manufacturing/american-center-mobility-get-hydrogen-hub   Click the below link to read the full Crain’s Detroit ACM & BayoTech article from Kurt Nagl. Crains Detroit 8.17.22 ACM “There’s a huge opportunity that hydrogen can play as a low carbon fuel for helping with the energy transition,” said Adam Penque, senior vice president of sales and BayoGaaS Hydrogen Hub Development.…

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Looking for Megawatt Power?

08/14/2022

Finding Megawatt (MW) scale power tied to available real estate for siting projects can be challenging. There are sparse idle grid resources these days. The American Center for Mobility (ACM) is looking to make available up to 76 MW through our onsite power substation to tenants and projects that locate on our campus that are…

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ACM Partners and Industry Advisory Board

ACM’s approach is to achieve growth and prosperity for our ecosystem through partnerships. We are always seeking strategic partnerships that help enhance the capabilities and offerings of our global development center and provide value to our ecosystem of customers and stakeholders. Partnerships can include key customers, service partners, infrastructure & equipment providers, sponsorships, and long-term tenants.

Partnerships that meet a certain criteria  have the opportunity to be represented on the ACM Industry Advisory Board (IAB) where they play a significant role in helping to guide ACM's strategic direction by providing vital input on improvements to the facilityand services, implementation of new technologies & capabilities, development of industry standards &best practices, events, research, and industrial tech park.

ACM IAB Vision

Convene key leaders across the mobility ecosystem in order to shape the future state of ACM and to best service its stakeholders in changing the mobility landscape.

ACM IAB Mission

The ACM IAB’s mission is to bring investment partners together to gain their strategic and operational guidance on testing, standards, and education related to future mobility. Engaging diverse representatives from industries will lend ACM a unique lens into the rapidly evolving mobility space, provide guidance as the landscape changes, support ACMs intention to be a world class convener of the mobility ecosystem and facilitate connection and collaboration of partner organizations to advance technologies and capabilities in the space.

IAB Committees

The possibilities of collaborative activities through the development of committees within the IAB support further industry integration and the development of programs and solutions that can create the impact needed to move the industry forward. The IAB has two committees, with room for additional committees based on IAB request, including:

Standards Committee

As the industry continues to emerge and evolve, the ACM acts as a neutral convener of industry, standards and government organizations to collectively discuss and shape mobility technology best practices, standards and regulations.

Support Standards Development

Internal committee for IAB members

Purpose/Goals

Participate in the accelerated development of standards and suggested regulation terminology concerning the evolution of the transportation industry and smart mobility technologies.

Participate in existing standards organizations focusing on mobility solutions

Partner with select actives and suggest direction and guidelines

Coordinate ACM utilization for standards verification and validation

Develop and maintain a global perspective

ACM Foundation

The ACM Foundation offers immersive hands-on programs and resources with access to ACM’s world-class global development center in partnership with academic institutions, philanthropic organizations, and other non-profits.  We offer education, training & professional development opportunities spanning from STEM K-12 to higher education and corporate training.  We offer a venue for hand-on training with advanced technology. We also an ideal location for others to host their educational events such as Challenges & Competitions.

Vision

Our vision is for a safe, sustainable, and secure mobility future supported by a world-class workforce.

Mission

Our mission is to uplift the next generation mobility workforce through education and training.

Careers / Join Our Team

The American Center for Mobility works daily with cutting edge companies and technologies. We are moving fast, no two days are the same.

We are always on the look-out for talented and experienced people to join our team. If you don’t find a posting to match your unique talents and skills, please send your cv or resume with a cover letter to [email protected] for consideration.