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Mercedes-Benz Opens China R&D Unit Focused on Mobility Tech

The centre, its second research and development facility in China, will work in tech fields such as connectivity, automated driving and big data, the company said in a statement


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Mercedes-Benz said it is 600 unfilled vacancies away from achieving its goal of a global team of 10,000 software engineers. Photo: Reuters

 

Germany’s Mercedes-Benz Group said on Friday it has opened a research and development (R&D) 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, nor how many engineers it plans to eventually hire for the new location.

It said in the statement it is “aiming to attract hundreds of new tech talents”.

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.

It is the first such centre outside Germany that is more “on par” technically with the firm’s far bigger R&D headquarters near Stuttgart.

 

  • Reuters with additional editing by Jim Pollard

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.