Mercedes-Benz has announced the opening of a new center in Research and Development in Shanghai, in China. There will be two focuses on which the activity of the structure owned by the Casa della Stella will focus: connectivity and autonomous driving. Mobility technology will therefore be the work priority of the new center: Mercedes-Benz he did not specify the amount of investment made to create this structure, nor how many engineers he intends to hire to make it work efficiently and quickly.
As mentioned by Autonews, the new Research and Development center built in Shanghai is part of a broader strategy to strengthen Mercedes-Benz’s presence in China: only last year the car manufacturer of the Star inaugurated a similar structure in the capital of the Asian country, Beijing, where it employs around 1,000 engineers. Numbers in hand, that facility is not only over three times the size of the one opened by Mercedes-Benz in 2014, but it is also the first outside of Germany technically more on par with the company’s largest R&D facility. near Stuttgart. We will see how impressive the new facility inaugurated in Shanghai will be, the same city where rival Tesla has just restarted production at its Gigafactory: one of Mercedes-Benz’s ambitions is to attracting hundreds of new tech talent.
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