SHANGHAI: Germany's Mercedes-Benz Group AG said on Friday it has opened a research and development centre in Shanghai that will focus on mobility technology.
The centre, its second R&D facility in China, will work in tech fields such as connectivity, automated driving and big data, the company said in a statement. Mercedes-Benz did not elaborate on the size of its investment in the new tech centre, or how many engineers it plans to eventually hire for the new location.The establishment of a new Shanghai tech centre follows a move last year by the German premium carmaker to significantly upgrade its R&D capabilities in Beijing, by opening a new R&D facility in China's capital.
With 1,000 engineers, the new Beijing tech facility is more than three times the size of the one Mercedes-Benz opened in 2014, and the first outside Germany that is more"on par" technically with the firm's far bigger R&D headquarters near Stuttgart, a person close to the centre said at the time.
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