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Ford to Open R&D Lab in Tesla's Backyard Autonews SAN FRANCISCO -- Ford Motor Co. CEO Mark Fields, seeking to burnish his company's high-tech credentials, will announce Thursday the opening of a Silicon Valley r&d center that is believed to be one of the auto industry’s largest. The new...

Mercedes Opens Silicon Valley R&D Center For Future Tech Development BY Antony Ingram Mercedes-Benz has opened a new research and development site in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley--the fruits of which will influence the automaker's technology for years to come. While the area is best known for...

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS GM delays most future product, r&d in cash crunch JAMIE LAREAU AND ROBERT SHEREFKIN AUTOMOTIVE NEWS OCTOBER 29, 2008 - 12:01 AM ET DETROIT -- General Motors is postponing nearly all of its spending on product development in 2009 and 2010 -- a cost-cutting move that could...

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/07/f...nder-on-randd/ According to a European Commission report, Ford is the car industry's biggest spender on R&D. Ford was number one until this year, but got outspent by pharmaceutical company Pfizer. (The Blue Oval vs. the blue pill...who knew?) Ford spent...