DALIAN, China/KYOTO, Japan -- At Nidec's state-of-the-art development center for electric vehicle motors in Suzhou, near Shanghai, speedy work is crucial to winning and retaining often-impatient Chinese clients.
The development center opened in September last year to produce prototypes tailored to customer needs. The process usually takes six months to a year, but some customers have asked it to be done in "a month and a half."
