Beijing (ZXZC)- Daimler AG announced the operation of its new“R&D Tech Center China” started on Wednesday, marking another milestone in the auto giant’s strategy to explore and leverage the huge technological potential and talent of the Chinese market.

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Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Engel, Senior Executive Vice President of Daimler Greater China Ltd. addressed, “Our new R&D Tech Center China brings our technological capabilities to a new level. It also enables us to significantly increase speed and efficiency of our R&D activities. Future products from Mercedes-Benz can be comprehensively engineered, tested and verified long before they hit the road.”

Notably, this is the most comprehensive Daimler center in China, taking up 55,000 m2 with roughly 1,000 engineers onsite. The center possesses an office building, a test building, a workshop, a warehouse and testing-car parking lots.

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The test building is equipped with cutting-edge testing facilities, including an eDrive lab, a charging lab, a volatile organic compounds (VOC) lab, a chassis lab, a noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) lab, an engine lab as well as an environmental lab. The new test building can accommodate more than 300 test vehicles at the same time.

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The eDrive lab is home to two test chambers that simulate a temperature range of -30˚C to +50˚C. The two sets of 4-wheel dynamometers can test whole electric vehicles, components or real battery pack tests. By adjusting the roller force and using big data applications, the intelligent test bench can simulate real driving conditions like air resistance or different topographies.

The Tech Center China’s new chassis lab is equipped with a state-of-the-art road simulator that can simulate extremely rough road conditions. It allows 100% comparable results with other locations within the global R&D network.