GAC Mitsubishi Motors, the joint venture among GAC Group, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, and Mitsubishi Corporation, inaugurated its new R&D center on September 13, which will help the automaker greatly boost the R&D of its proprietary products and technologies.
GMMC launched the R&D center construction project in October 2018 and broke the ground on the center in December 2019. Covering an area of 195 mu (130,000 square meters) and involving a total investment of 670 million yuan ($96.237 million), the R&D center contains such facilities as a scientific research building, a comprehensive laboratory, a new energy vehicle laboratory, an EMC laboratory, a styling studio, as well as a trial production workshop.
The company said the hardware facility of the new R&D center not only can satisfy the testing and validation demands for every phase of the company's in-house product development, but also can undertake the testing tasks from other companies or testing institutions.