ADVANCED VEHICLE RESEARCH CENTER had its grand opening for the new Headquarters in Danville, Virginia on August 21st, 2009.

The AVRC facility is a new 16,000 square foot headquarters that includes a research and design center in the Cyber Park. Additionally, the company is developing a closed loop natural terrain track on a 266-acre site near the Danville Regional Airport. The track will be used to test manned and unmanned military vehicles and off-road vehicles.

AVRC has a commercial initiative to convert hybrid Toyota Priuses to Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles. (PHEVs) and other initiatives include natural gas conversion and Hydrogen mobile generation. AVRC has done more PHEV conversions than any other company on the East Coast for clients including Progress Energy, Duke Energy, City of Raleigh, and other clients from New York to Florida.

See the ABC-13 news coverage video below, and go here for the original ABC-13 news article.

Danville, VA

"We see the Danville area as the perfect place for our expansion and we're very enthusiastic about consolidating our activities here," said Dick Dell, Executive Director of the AVRC. "The region already has significant assets that support the automotive industry such as the Virginia International Raceway. Our work in advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles will benefit from the extensive research being done at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, including Jouster, Viper, and Virginia Tech."

"AVRC is at the forefront of alternative fuel research and hybrid vehicle technologies. Our goal is to make the Piedmont Virginia area a recognized center for automotive research."

"We're here thanks to the encouragement and support of the City of Danville, Pittsylvania County and the Dan River Business Development Center. They understand the value of cooperative efforts to create jobs in a difficult time. AVRC will invest over $3 million dollars and create at least 35 high tech jobs here in Danville over the next 3 to 5 years. We fully expect a large number of jobs to be created from supporting industry growth as well."

New employment opportunities will be posted on the company web site, www.avrc.com/jobs. Resumes can be sent to jobs@avrc.com

The company has been prominently featured in print articles nationally and internationally for their work with hybrid vehicle technologies.

An overview document of the AVRC facility in Danville, Virginia can be found at the following link

http://www.avrc.com/presentations/AVRC_Virginia.doc

For more information on the Danville, VA facility and available space, please click here.