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Mercedes-Benz has opened an €80 million development and test centre for its trucks business at Wörth in Germany.

The centre, known as the EVZ, has been built in two phases and has taken three years to build. It employs around 300 people. It includes a 2,000m test track, plus workshop and office space.

Facilities inside the workshop include the ability to simulate 14 different types of road surface including rough tracks. The outside test track has banked sections up to 49 per cent or 26° and is used to test the functioning of brakes.

Jörg Zürn, head of product development at Mercedes-Benz Trucks, said: "EVZ is going to take our development and testing procedures to a whole new level."