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Business Team Translations supports automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and mobility technology companies with technical translation and interpreting services. Our translators have backgrounds in automotive engineering, vehicle systems, and related technical domains.

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ISO 17100:2015 Certified ISO 9001:2015 Certified Clients: Knorr-Bremse, Hankook, UNIX Auto, Haldex, Magna

Automotive documentation spans a wide range - from vehicle system technical manuals and safety documentation to regulatory compliance materials and supplier contracts. Accuracy is essential: a mistranslation in a maintenance procedure or safety instruction has direct consequences for vehicle performance and safety.

We translate technical manuals, regulatory documentation, supplier contracts, and operational materials for automotive manufacturers and suppliers operating across European and international markets.

What we do

Language Services for Automotive & Mobility

Technical Translation

Vehicle system technical manuals, maintenance documentation, safety instructions, engineering specifications, and supplier documentation.

Certified Translation

Regulatory compliance documentation, type approval materials, and official documents for submission to automotive authorities.

Interpreting Services

Consecutive interpreting for supplier audits, technical meetings, engineering site visits, and training sessions at automotive manufacturing facilities.

Legal Translation

Supplier contracts, framework agreements, and corporate legal documentation for automotive organizations.

Engineer reviewing technical drawings and engineering specifications

Track record

Clients We Have Supported

Knorr-Bremse

Railway systems

Railway braking system technical manuals, customer handbooks, and training documentation between English, German, Spanish, and Chinese.

26 projects · 29 jobs5 languagesTechnical manuals

Hankook

Manufacturing · Interpreting

Consecutive interpreting at automotive manufacturing operations in Chinese.

Multiple projectsChineseInterpreting

Magna

Automotive supplier

Automotive components and systems documentation for the international automotive supplier.

Multiple projectsComponents

Haldex

Brake systems

Brake systems and vehicle safety documentation for the Swedish automotive supplier.

Multiple projectsSafety documentation

UNIX Auto

Parts distribution

Automotive documentation across multiple European languages.

Multiple projectsMulti-language

Commercial vehicles

Fleet & heavy-duty documentation

Two-wheel & powertrain

Component & systems manuals

In-vehicle & mobility

HMI, infotainment & owner content

The difference

What makes automotive translation different

The problems that decide whether this work succeeds or has to be done twice.

Safety content carries liability, not just meaning

A torque value, a sequence-critical step or a warning symbol translated loosely is not a style problem. Automotive documentation ends in the hands of a technician who acts on it, and an error in a maintenance procedure surfaces years later as a warranty claim or a liability question. We treat safety notices as controlled content: the same translator, the same glossary, the same warning hierarchy at every revision.

German is the source language of the industry

European automotive engineering documentation originates overwhelmingly in German, and its conventions - infinitive instructions, DIN-based terminology, structured warning hierarchies - do not survive a literal rendering into English or Spanish. German-source technical work is our deepest resource, which is the practical reason this sector fits us rather than a claim about it.

Model years compound the consistency problem

Automotive documentation is revised continually, and a term changed in the 2023 manual has to stay changed in the 2026 one, in every language. Translation memory and a maintained glossary are what make that possible. Without them each revision drifts a little, and drift across twelve languages cannot be recovered by proofreading - only by retranslating.

Coverage

Language Coverage

European

English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian.

Non-European

Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean - for automotive manufacturers with Asian-market distribution.

Additional coverage

For German-source automotive documentation - the dominant source language in European automotive engineering - we are particularly well resourced, with translators experienced in automotive technical terminology across all major target languages.

FAQ

Common questions

Can you provide interpreting for supplier audits and plant visits?

Yes. Consecutive interpreting on the shop floor and in technical meetings is a regular part of our automotive work - we have provided it for Hankook at manufacturing operations and for HOCHTIEF on construction engineering projects. Interpreters are selected for the technical subject, not only the language pair.

Do you handle type approval and homologation documentation?

Yes, including certified translation where the receiving authority requires it. Tell us which authority and which market, and we will confirm whether a certification statement is sufficient or a different form is needed before you commission the work.

How do you keep terminology consistent across model years and languages?

Every client has a translation memory and a terminology database that we maintain rather than rebuild per project. A named project manager owns the account, so a decision taken on one manual is applied to the next one - including across languages, which is where consistency usually fails.

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