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Thank CTOnews.com netizens CTOnews.com high-end users for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, July 18, according to the official LinkedIn homepage of Volkswagen Group, the company announced that it will invest about 1 billion euros (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 8.06 billion yuan) to build a new electric intelligent network connected car R & D, innovation and procurement center, headquartered in Hefei, Anhui Province.

The company, Volkswagen (China) Technology Co., Ltd., officially announced that it "integrates the research and development of complete vehicles and parts, and the research and development time of new products and technologies can be reduced by about 30%."

Volkswagen officials also detailed that the new R & D center has the following features:

‎ Volkswagen's largest R & D center outside Germany

‎ is used to develop the most advanced vehicles and parts

Can establish contact and purchase with innovation team

Purchase for the production of "electric connected cars"

‎ Volkswagen Group said that this move will release the synergy in the development process. In addition, in the early stages, local technology will be integrated into product development in order to enable the group's products to meet the needs of Chinese customers more quickly.

Volkswagen Group pointed out that the R & D center in Hefei will have the following facilities:

A testing ground for high-tech solutions

‎ 's advanced MEB factory

A complete value chain supported by digital sales and after-sales service

▲ image source Volkswagen LinkedIn home page, the same below

CTOnews.com previously reported that the SAIC-Volkswagen ID.3 launched a discount on July 7, and the starting price of the car was reduced to 125900 yuan, prompting constant complaints from German netizens back home. A spokesman for the company said that the price difference is due to the advantage of production costs and lower energy costs in the Chinese market, and that almost all the suppliers of the model are from China, with shorter transportation routes and lower production costs. In addition, the "price war" of Tesla, BYD and other manufacturers is becoming more and more fierce, and Volkswagen is naturally not willing to lag behind.

In addition, German media Automobilwoche previously reported that Volkswagen subsidiary Audi is looking for electric platform partners from China to shorten the development time of its models in order to cope with the increasingly competitive electric vehicles in China. Sources revealed that Audi will cooperate with Zhiji on the platform, involving the three electricity system, the car body, the intelligent driving system and so on.

In response to the above rumors, a relevant person of SAIC Group responded to Zhongxin Finance and Economics that at present, the company has no major matters that should be disclosed but not disclosed, and if there is any important progress and involves disclosure requirements of listed companies, the company will comply with the relevant regulations, accordingly fulfill the obligation of information disclosure.

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