Groupe Renault - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GROUPE RENAULT

Renault continued its innovation strategy by inaugurating Alliance Innovation Labs in Shanghai (China) and Tel Aviv (Israel) in 2019. The Tel Aviv Alliance Innovation Lab identifies, defines and produces prototypes with Israeli start-ups mainly in the areas of cybersecurity, sensors for ADAS and autonomous vehicles, and data/smart cities. The reinforcement of the innovation network is based on numerous actions: increased technical and scientific synergies within the Alliance to P benefit from shared processes; sharing of collaborative projects co-financed with European P partners; further expansion of the internal ‘Creative Labs’ network to P increase the creativity of Renault employees;

broadening of connections with local eco-systems in order to be P closer to new trends in these markets, through emerging start-ups; access to the best performing cutting-edge technologies through P the strategic partnership with the CEA; creation of an autonomous vehicle project platform in Saclay; sharing of research efforts with French partners in industrial and P academic Technological Research Institutes (VeDeCom, SystemX); identification, activation and support for Research skill clusters in P the RTX according to the specific local features and talents associated with new communications and information technologies; broadening of the exchange network with actors in future P mobility, based on Renault’s strategic focuses (electric vehicle, new mobility, connectivity and new associated services). one department for the development of Segment C and D P vehicles, one department for the development of electric vehicles, P one department for the development of light commercial P vehicles; and the Vehicle Development department, which is tasked with P designing items specific to the development of Groupe Renault products such as, for example, cabins and bodywork. The Transformation and Performance department is a cross-functional department. This department promotes the quality and uniformity of our products worldwide and brings together skills management, specification/resource fulfillment, and process and standards management activities. Renault international engineering centers (RTX) Groupe Renault’s engineering centers are located all over the world in countries such as Spain, Romania, Korea, India, Russia and the United States. Thanks to their knowledge of local and regional markets, they are tasked with adapting vehicles to customer needs and expectations, local regulatory constraints and national economic situations. Through the application of a skills upgrading policy that continues from year to year, Groupe Renault continuously increases the responsibility of engineering centers for cross-functional activities and enables them to take charge of vehicle project design at an increasingly early stage in the process. This upskilling also enables the most mature RTX to move from regional to more global responsibilities.

R&D: a unified international organization 1.4.4 Key areas such as engineering, manufacturing and supply chain purchasing, quality and total customer satisfaction, after-sales and business development have been merged within the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance since April 2018. In Engineering, this organization enables optimization of synergies in vehicle and service development.

The vehicle ranges are grouped into a single Alliance team that provides platform-by-platform development under a common management. Alliance Engineering The new Alliance Engineering department is currently composed mainly of nine major entities: 6 Functional departments: P the Research and Advanced Engineering department, P the Customer Service, Testing and Digital Simulations P department, the Combustion and Electric Powertrain Development P department,

the Vehicle Platforms and Components department, P the Electric/Electronic and Systems department, P the Connected Vehicles department; P

2 Alliance Project Development departments tasked with P overseeing vehicle development according to a distribution of projects by platform. These two departments themselves include: two departments for the development of Segment A and B P vehicles,

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