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Mercedes-Benz Opens New Headquarters and R&D Center in Silicon Valley

The Stuttgart car manufacturer just opened its new Research & Development North America headquarters in the world's best known IT hot spot, Silicon Valley.
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Photo: Daimler AG
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Mercedes-Benz was actually the first automotive manufacturer to open a research facility in the region, back in 1994, and is currently employing an R&D workforce of around 300 people at various locations around the United States, as follows:

  • Group Research and Advanced Engineering (Silicon Valley and New Jersey)
  • Advanced User Experience Design (Silicon Valley)
  • eDrive and Powertrain (Michigan)
  • Advanced Exterior Design (California)
  • Tech Center (California and Michigan)

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA) has now moved its R&D headquarters from Palo Alto into a larger building in Sunnyvale, just a couple of miles away.

In case you were wondering what kind of work is done in the rather cool-looking building in the adjacent photos, you might want to know that present activities at MDRDNA include work on future infotainment and telematics solutions such as the Mercedes-Benz Apps for Comand Online, the highly coveted mbrace system or the Digital DriveStyle app. Not a bad way to make a living, if you ask us.
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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