Carat

FEV has developed a professional benchmarking database solution called “carat”. Carat is cloud-based and globally accessible through your web browser. Through carat, you have direct access to our valuable benchmarking gems! To gain access to carat, clients enter into a benchmarking partnership with FEV.

The beauty of carat lies in its customization options; clients can build their own database by adding selected benchmarking modules according to their areas of interest. Access to benchmark data is maintained as long as they remain a benchmarking partner. In carat, customers have access to a large number of vehicle profiles and can view the vehicle architecture and key drivetrain components with initial specifications. The detailed benchmarking data for the selected and procured modules of our analyzed vehicles are available for deep dive analysis. In carat, clients see complete photo documentation, structured bill of materials with key component data, supplier information, and our deep engineering assessment results on layouts and design characteristics. With one or two clicks, images and KPIs can be analyzed and compared in specific views and graphs.

FEV’s renowned scatter bands are also available allowing for competitive analysis, such as comparing the performance of HV batteries or electric drive units. Clients can enter different partnership levels and gain additional benefits like new vehicle presentations, free workshops and access to our benchmark centers, monthly webinars and have a voice in the selection of new vehicles and definition of the benchmarking programs.