To succeed on today’s fast-paced markets, technological innovation is one of the mainstays of the Fiat Group’s strategies. To cope with global competitive pressures and the mounting demand for products that continue to break new ground in terms of safety, performance and respect for the environment, the companies in all of the Group’s operating sectors have allocated higher proportions of their revenues to research and development.
To promote sustainable mobility on multiple fronts, Fiat’s research and development work involved approximately 13,200 people at 116 centres around the world. R&D investments totalled some 1.6 billion euros, or around 3.2% of net revenues of Industrial Activities.
Thanks to the intensive work by each of the sectors, sustained by the high value-added, cross-organizational research conducted by the Group’s scientific hubs, the Centro Ricerche Fiat and Elasis, major advances were made in product and manufacturing process technology.