Automotive Expert Witnesses

What is an automotive expert witness?

Automotive expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience in automotive engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomechanics, and/or vehicle manufacturing. Automotive expert witnesses often have advanced degrees in engineering (PE), computer science (PhD), and/or public safety (MSc). In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a technical expert with prior expert witness experience.

What types of cases require an automotive expert witness?

Automotive expert witnesses could provide expertise in intellectual property matters, such as a patent litigation or a trade secret dispute. An automotive expert might also provide testimony in matters such as a product liability case, personal injury, or accident investigation.

Automotive expert witness case examples

Representative matters have encompassed:

• airbag failure analysis,
• heavy truck crash data recovery in Arizona,
• commercial vehicle seatbelt product design,
• Pennsylvania traffic accident reconstruction,
• Lemon law,
• automotive insurance industry claims,
• automotive repair breach of contract,
• used car warranties,
• diesel fuel nozzle patent valuation,
• motor home safety standards, and
• dealership operations in New York.

What litigation support work might an automotive expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support by an automotive expert witness could include authoring expert reports, reverse or forensic engineering components, providing expert opinions at depositions, accident reconstruction and expert witness testimony at a trial.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an automotive expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

Related Disciplines

Automotive Expert Witness - Representative Bios

Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.

Start Custom Search

The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Automotive experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Automotive landscape.

• Expert Witness #253952

  This expert is considered the foremost authority on Jeep, American Motors Corporation and related brands including Rambler, Nash, Hudson, AM General, Jeffrey and Lafayette and is also a recognized authority on Studebaker. This expert has researched and written books on automotive history. A dedicated historian/author with broad experience in the auto industry, this expert has been writing about automobiles for many years. This expert's work has appeared in Hemmings Classic Car, Chrysler magazine, Automobile Quarterly, Automotive News, Jeep magazine, Collectible Automobile, Forward (magazine of the Chrysler Museum), Reader's Digest, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Dodge magazine, Cars & Parts, Strada, Special Interest Autos, AutoWeek, Car Collector/Car Classics, Automotive History Review, Journal of the Society of Automotive Historians, and other periodicals. This expert has assembled thousands of vintage factory photographs and automotive literature. This expert has appeared on various television and radio talk shows, has a prominent role as commentator in an automobile documentary film, and belongs to the Society of Automotive Historians Inc. This expert is a popular banquet speaker and also conducts seminars on automotive history.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #258974

  This expert is a full professor in a Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. This expert is a licensed engineer and has been actively involved in the design and evaluation of advanced power producing systems for many years. This expert is the director of an Automotive Research Center and the head of a graduate Automotive Engineering program.

  This expert has been involved in advanced throttle control fuel injection/combustion systems and was funded by NASA in advanced gas turbine engine fuel injection and combustion systems. Since that time, this expert has also been involved in optimizing fuel, throttle and fuel injection and combustion systems for transportation automotive and trucking applications along with racing applications. This expert has hands on experience in dyno testing of complex throttle and fuel injection systems along with track testing and advanced computational modeling on supercomputing clusters.

  This expert has chaired technical sessions for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in exhaust and particulate emissions systems, direct injection spark and compression ignition engines, fuel injection and sprays, HCCI combustion, hybrid electric vehicle powertrains, high efficiency engine concepts, multidimensional engine modeling, on-board diagnostics, fuels and fuel additives, cold start characteristics, engine boosting systems, dual fuel combustion, spark assisted compression ignition combustion and heady duty lubricants. 

  Areas of interest are jet and rocket propulsion systems, advanced low pollutant emission, high efficiency combustions systems for advanced aircraft and automotive applications, alternative fuels and renewable energy systems.

  This expert has been deposed and testified in court over 60 times as an expert witness involving the design and analysis of advanced Mechanical Engineering systems. Further, this expert has been involved with numerous cases an expert related to intellectual property and patent litigation, including cases with related to engine control and throttle systems.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #237271

  This expert has many years of experience in the automotive industry. This expert is a veteran of automotive component litigation, having testified at trial numerous times in high profile automotive component matters. This expert has extensive design, testing, and development engineering experience in the automotive industry and is thoroughly experienced in the design of linkages, brackets, sealing, and mounting designs. This expert has tested and worked on structures and systems for vehicles that include sunroofs, convertible roofs, closures, as well as testifying about compliance of these systems to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, including FMVSS 216 Roof Crush Resistance, FMVSS 214 Side Impact Protection, FMVSS 208 – Occupant Crash Protection, FMVSS 201 Upper Interior Head Protection. This expert has also served as an expert witness and corporate representative, where this expert analyzed defect claims, many of which involved mechanical and structural systems, and testified in depositions and trials throughout the United States.

  Due to extensive experience in the automotive industry, this expert is intimately familiar with sealing issues. For the U.S. Army, this expert worked on numerous systems and their associated issues involving hatches, doors, see-through armor, gates, and the associated mechanisms linkages, reinforcements, as well as systems and components that employ hard or soft materials, as well as the associated accessibility, serviceability, durability and reliability of these systems and components.

  This expert is thoroughly experienced in Design for Assembly as well as the quality and reliability issues associated with component and system design. This expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in chemical engineering, and a BS and an MS in electrical engineering.

  This expert has served extensively as an expert witness and has testified, authored reports, and analyzed patents and prior art in numerous automotive cases. This expert has extensive experience in infringement/non-infringement, and patent validity/invalidity, including 101, 102, 103, 112 and prior art arguments for automotive and transportation components and systems, thoroughly understands the issues involved in intellectual property and patent litigation and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO. This expert has done analyses under literal infringement and the under the doctrine of equivalents, as well as direct infringement, contributory infringement, inducement of infringement, willful infringement, authored numerous reports and declarations and put together claim charts for infringement/non-infringement contentions, invalidity and validity arguments (including secondary considerations such has nexus/commercial success), claim construction hearings (in support of Markman briefs and hearings), and has authored numerous expert reports including ITC testimony documents, for IPR matters as an automotive/mechanical systems expert, for numerous intellectual property and patent cases, and has deposition and/or testified in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the PTAB, as well as various Federal District Courts. This expert also has extensive deposition and trial testimony experience, including testifying experience in IP and patent litigation cases. This expert has authored reports and declarations for numerous intellectual property and patent cases, and has testified in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the PTAB, as well as various Federal District Courts.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #245262

  This expert leads a highly successful Automotive Design and Engineering consultancy. This expert has served as an independent consultant and expert witness in the Automotive engineering arena for many years.

  This expert’s specific areas of focus are in components for Vehicle Powertrains, Electronics, Throttle Controls, Shift Controls, and Braking Systems across primarily Passenger Vehicles, but also Heavy-Duty Trucks, Off-Road Construction Vehicles, and Military Equipment. This expert’s senior engineering positions allowed this expert to cross technology and product boundaries while performing field performance assessments, engine management system evaluations, and technical investigations.

  This expert has worked with various automotive HVAC systems components and is highly familiar with their designs, functions and testing, including environmental tests such as vibration, temperature, EMC compatibility, and exposure to harsh conditions including salt spray and typical automotive conditions.  Additionally, this expert has experience with their testing, engineering and design specifications.

  This expert is a member of the IEEE Standards Association and the Society of Automotive Engineers VEDI Standards Committee.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #223826

  This expert has made a career of consulting and providing expert witness services to the automotive industry. This expert's focus is on automotive systems and components as well as the dynamics of gears and power trains. This expert received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a Professional Engineer. This expert has a training certificate in Mechanics of Heavy-Duty Trucks and Truck Combinations, among others. This expert is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is well published in the automotive field.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #259805

  This expert holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and serves as an electrical engineering professor as well as a director of a transportation electronics laboratory. This expert is also a Professional Engineer (P.E.), and leads a highly successful, internationally recognized consultancy specializing in forensic electrical and software engineering in automotive and transportation systems.

  This expert held positions with major industrial companies, and served as a director of an alternative fuels laboratory at a research institute. This expert has published over 125 technical journal and conference papers and serves on the editorial review boards of four journals. This expert’s consulting firm focuses on electronic analysis and data extraction in support of automotive intellectual property expert witness services, lemon law investigation and documentation, and product evaluation for safety, performance or compliance with specifications.

  This expert has extensive automotive electronics experience: academic research, hands on projects and IP/ IPR EE cases. This expert has faced the challenges of EM noise intrusion in the automotive environment and SOTA EM shielding and other methods to improve signal to noise ratio.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #250772

  This expert is Director of the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program at a research university. This expert is an expert in automotive drivetrain technology and extensively studies, publishes and teaches on oscillation, vibration and flexure of drivetrains. This expert's primary focus is on electrical and mechanical systems including imbalance issues, and the attendant noise and vibrations that occur, specifically the dynamics and analysis of mechanical vibrations on rotating and linear devices. This expert is a member of the society of Automotive engineers (SAE) and is a registered Professional Engineer. This expert has experience as an expert witness, having testified approximately a dozen times in court, and providing upwards of twenty depositions, primarily in patent matters.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #798266

  This expert is an automotive engineer with diverse experience in production vehicles, military vehicles, and motorsports. This expert applies expertise to intellectual property disputes as well as vehicle crash investigations, including crash reconstructions, crashworthiness investigations, and analyses of vehicle systems performance. This expert is a Professional Engineer, earned engineering degrees from two of the nation's most respected programs, and has hands-on experience designing and testing complete vehicles and automotive products.

  Upon completion of a degree in Mechanical Engineering, this expert worked with an automobile manufacturer. This expert was responsible for ensuring that vehicles complied with governmental safety guidelines; this expert conducted computer simulations and real-world testing on complete vehicles as well as individual vehicle components.

  This expert co-founded an engineering design, prototyping, and consulting company catering to the motorsports industry. This expert remained active in this venture, during which this expert transitioned full-time to an engineering company that provides vehicle durability and performance testing for automotive and motorcycle manufacturers as well as motorsports teams. This expert spent years testing military vehicles for handling and performance, and rollover resistance.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #247093

  This expert firm is comprised of senior consultants in an international energy strategy consultancy with offices throughout the world. The firm specializes in sustainable energy and transport, with expertise in renewable energies, energy storage, energy efficiency and sustainable transport. They developed an extended competence center on hydrogen and fuel cells. They are a multinational team of engineers, economists and policy experts in sustainable energy. This firm advises automotive OEMs, Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers and leading players in the automotive market. Their decade-long experience in the automotive industry allows them to support clients in designing global innovation and technology development strategies and assessing new market opportunities linked to technology innovation. They also assist customers in defining, designing and implementing innovative go-to-market strategies. They offer high value support on scientific and technology developments, industrial and commercial partnering strategies, technology and market trends' analysis, diversification strategies and investment / acquisition opportunities to actors in the automotive sector. Additionally, they support technology companies, start-up companies and established equipment manufacturers active in the energy and mobility sectors through collaborative innovation projects, design of innovative business models, market assessments and go-to-market strategies in both developed and developing economies. Further, they support leading international oil & gas companies, energy utilities and network operators (TSOs, DSOs) both in developed and emerging countries in all aspects of the energy transition, from strategy to implementation: coordination of collaborative innovation projects, new technology assessment, development of innovative business models, identification and evaluation of new market opportunities, etc.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #232512

  This automotive seat expert holds a PhD and has expertise in seat assembly, seatbelts, airbag performance, and biomechanics. This expert holds over 30 patents, including inventions related to automotive seating.

  Automotive seat system work has included analysis of alleged design, manufacturing, and testing defects, including review of design, engineering methodologies, manufacturer testing, and applicable industry standards. Before consulting, this expert held engineering roles at major automotive corporations.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #252163

  This automotive systems expert has over 45 years of active involvement in automotive design, testing, and evaluation of drivetrains, suspension systems, brake systems, chassis control systems, including electronic stability control systems, vehicle handling, and vehicle stability. This expert's automotive career includes engineering, designing, and testing components for automotive manufacturers, OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers; integrating vehicles and vehicle systems; test-track and road testing of dynamic vehicle behavior; validating components and systems for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers; designing and preparing racecars; and driving racecars.

  This expert has invented and developed advanced all-wheel drive systems used by leading SUV and car manufacturers. During the integration of these systems into individual vehicle platforms, this expert worked closely with development teams on vehicle dynamics integration. Following an intensive over 15-year vehicle research and development career and vehicle handling work with a broad range of U.S. and European automobile manufacturers, this expert began conducting detailed systems analyses of vehicle handling and stability issues that lead to catastrophic injury accidents. Over the last 25 years, this expert has conducted numerous detailed systems analyses of catastrophic injury crashes in accordance with established industry practices and protocols published by SAE. This expert has worked with and participated in dynamic vehicle testing for handling and safety issues with OEM and supplier engineers on many proving grounds and test tracks, testing and evaluating vehicles manufactured by many OEMs.

  More specifically, this expert has worked on the development and testing of ESC, including manufacturer-specific implementations, with several automotive manufacturers and suppliers. This expert has detailed knowledge and experience with hydroplaning subroutines and ESC technology, from concept through implementation, and is capable of downloading, reading, and interpreting vehicle control system code where access is available.

  This expert is currently conducting research relating to advanced automotive technology, including design and technology analysis involving design defects and alternative designs; automotive systems and components testing and scientific validation, including durability, reliability, rollover, and handling tests; automotive design, technology, vehicle dynamics, handling, and stability research and consulting; and evaluation of feasibility, performance, and potential effects of design alternatives and available technology.

  This expert has over 20 years of expert witness experience, including numerous matters involving ESC, testing, reports, and testimony.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #254747

  This automotive designer expert is a design consulting founder and senior automotive design leader with experience focused on automotive and EV design, including consulting for a number of EV companies and serving in design leadership for a solar/EV vehicle company.

  This expert attended a prestigious design college in California and graduated with honors before being selected by a major European automotive manufacturer for a new North American design studio, the manufacturer's first design studio outside its headquarters. This expert's early work established a reputation as an innovative and conscientious automotive designer.

  This expert later worked with other major automotive manufacturers and helped contribute to the finished design of a high-performance sports car.

  Fueled by this success, this expert established a design studio focused on design-driven vehicle design, design consulting, and product portfolio consultation. Clients have included international auto manufacturers, start-up vehicle companies, major after-market accessory suppliers, and power-sports companies. This expert also serves in a senior design leadership role for a solar/EV vehicle company.

  This expert's experience with lighting includes concept development from aesthetic to functional design, including shape development, packaging, and Color/Material/Finish selection.

  Functional design experience includes ensuring adequate illumination across vehicle lighting layouts, including head and tail lamps, side markers and turn indicators, interior lighting, and reflective areas sometimes built into a lamp module.

  Engineering requirements experience includes selecting appropriate materials that can withstand environmental conditions such as temperature variations, UV exposure, and mechanical stress; considering manufacturing processes that can efficiently produce lighting elements; and ensuring that lamps integrate with vehicle systems, including electrical systems.

  Legal requirements experience includes ensuring that FMVSS and other standards, including EU ECE regulations, are met, designing for homologation, and considering environmental regulations.

  Prototype and testing experience includes work from mock-ups to samples as well as validation testing.

  Collaboration experience includes working with in-house and supplier engineering resources to maintain design integrity.

  DFM and final implementation experience includes Designing For Manufacturing while upholding aesthetics and manufacturing and legal requirements.

  This expert has additionally served as a consultant and advisor to an international vehicle manufacturer and continues to work with automotive research and development organizations on advanced and production design products. Client work across OEM and other vehicle design categories demonstrates continued influence in automotive design. The design consulting business has operated for over 20 years.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #258997

  This braking systems expert holds a Ph.D. and PE and is a full professor in mechanical and civil engineering at a well-regarded technical university. This expert is a past director of an automotive research center and head of a graduate automotive engineering program, with over 50 years of experience testing braking systems for street racing and off-road vehicles.

  This expert has expertise in the design of braking systems for automotive, trucking, and off-road applications involving ATVs, including braking-system design and advising engineering Baja competitions. These ATVs undergo individual inspections, including dynamic testing of braking systems.

  This expert has been deposed and testified in court over 60 times as an expert witness.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #277426

  This automotive radiator expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, completed a co-op of a number of years in assembly and assembly research divisions of a major automotive manufacturer, earned an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in several states.

  This expert has worked in mechanical engineering, mechanical project engineering, and plant engineering roles in the facilities and planning department of a major automotive manufacturer. This expert has authored peer-reviewed journal articles and technical reports on subjects ranging from warning labels and human factors/ergonomics to robotic safety standards for automated machinery and has extensive expert witness and consultation experience.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #282663

  This automotive and safety expert is a PE with over 30 years of experience as a mechanical and design engineer, specializing in automotive seats and restraints. This expert's background includes accident reconstruction, restraint systems, and automotive seating. This expert is a member of a prominent automotive engineering association and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a JD.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #286673

  This automotive systems expert is a registered professional mechanical engineer in California who specializes in investigating vehicle systems, with over 15 years of experience at a major automotive manufacturer. This expert has performed numerous vehicle crash and safety compliance tests under contract with a federal highway safety agency. This expert's work includes accident investigation, automotive and design engineering, failure analysis, and related areas. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including multiple depositions and courtroom testimony.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #286732

  This automotive test and component failure analysis expert holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and leads a local consultancy specializing in traffic accident reconstruction and automotive test engineering.

  This expert has over 20 years of experience running automotive handling tests, component testing, component failure analysis, setting up test instrumentation, and performing automotive crash testing. The work involves inspection, repair, and troubleshooting of various automotive systems and components, as well as making sure that test vehicles are functioning correctly and according to manufacturer specifications.

  This expert has also been involved with numerous low-speed crash tests with instrumented volunteers. The results of some of these tests have been published through a prominent automotive engineering association. This expert has prior expert witness experience, including deposition and testimony.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #288619

  This airbag/automotive safety expert has over 25 years of automotive engineering experience, including over 20 years focused on airbag and safety system design and development. This expert works in automotive safety, including airbag system design, crash sensing, frontal impact, side impact, rollover, and rear impact.

  This expert specializes in EDR black box data analysis, evaluation of airbag deployment timing, evaluation of system sensing design, vehicle performance testing and product defect analysis, vehicle sensor instrumentation, onboard vehicle data analysis, vehicle computer imaging and diagnostics, and advanced driver assistance systems testing.

  This expert previously worked for a major automotive manufacturer and served as a lead engineer and designer of airbag crash sensing and related safety systems for frontal impact, rear impact, side impact, rollover, and occupant classification systems. This expert designed satellite crash sensors and associated crash sensing algorithms, as well as the primary crash sensing algorithm for a Sensing and Diagnostic Module used in an advanced airbag system developed in response to federal safety requirements.

  For many years, this expert has served as an Expert Witness consultant, primarily addressing airbag and safety system failures and Crash Data Recording interpretations.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search

• Expert Witness #291129

  This automotive glass expert leads an automotive glass consultancy and developed an automotive glass technical training program. This expert has over 50 years of experience in the auto glass industry, beginning as an auto glass installer for a large regional auto glass company and later serving as the company's technical expert, training school facilitator, and developer.

  This expert later founded an independent company that developed and conducted training programs for leading automotive and auto glass companies. This expert has served on the board of an auto glass safety council, chaired an automotive glass replacement safety standards committee, and served on an education committee.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
  Start Automotive Expert Search