Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Mercedes-Benz Trucks will be presenting the series version of the previous eActros LongHaul on 10 October 2023, with a new design and the new name of eActros 600 as a world premiere. The electric drive components will also be installed at that site.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mercedes-Benz Vans has unveiled the SUSTAINEER (SUSTAINability pionEER) to give an impression of how sustainability in urban delivery operations may look in the future. Mercedes-Benz is convinced of the advantages of battery-electric vans and is preparing to go fully electric before the end of the decade wherever market conditions allow.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2023

Daimler Buses will deliver at least 95 battery-electric solo and articulated Mercedes-Benz eCitaro and eCitaro G city buses to the city of The Hague together with the e-infrastructure required for operation by 2024. Mercedes-Benz low-floor electric buses are charged at HTM via pantographs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2018

Hamburger Hochbahn AG has ordered 20 of the new Mercedes-Benz battery-electric Citaro city buses. The new, fully electrically powered Citaro will enter series production before the end of this year. The new, fully electrically powered city bus is based on the globally best-selling Mercedes-Benz Citaro.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is expanding its production capacities for electric cars in Europe. The Hambach plant in France, which currently produces smart brand electric vehicles, will produce a compact electric car of the new product and technology brand EQ. From 2020, the brand smart will only offer electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Trucks is starting practical trials for its all-electric heavy-duty eActros truck. The retail and logistics service provider Hermes is the first of 20 customers in different sectors who will integrate the electric truck into their fleets. —Stefan Buchner, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has delivered another all-electric eActros ( earlier post ) to a customer for on-road testing: Meyer-Logistik. Meyer-Logistik is one of twenty customers from different industries that have integrated the heavy-duty electric truck into their fleet. COOL model supplied by Schmitz Cargobull.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2018

Mercedes-Benz is in the process of building out hubs for the production of electric vehicles and batteries around the globe. Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain said that Mercedes-Benz will build its electric vehicles in six plants on three continents.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Worldwide, Daimler battery-electric trucks and buses have already logged more than seven million customer kilometers (4.3 With our electric trucks, we aim to offer our customers electric vehicles that are on a par with conventional trucks in terms of availability and performance as well. The Mercedes-Benz eActros and eEconic.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

Freightliner plans to deliver an Electric Innovation Fleet of 30 vehicles to customers later this year for further testing under real-world operating conditions. The goal is to build and deliver commercial electric vehicles that support the business and sustainability goals of our customers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The wholly-owned Daimler subsidiary Accumotive at the Kamenz location in Germany will employ around 1,000 people by the end of the year—doubling the workforce almost one year earlier than planned, said Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

US behemoth food company Mars is looking to put 300 “heavy-duty” electric trucks into operation in Europe by 2030, in what it is calling the largest electrification of freight trucking in Europe ever. It, too, is investing about “a mid-six-figure euro amount in the installation,” Electrive reports. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

Carsharing service car2go has opened its tenth North American location; the new Chicago fleet comprises 400 vehicles, including smart fortwo and Mercedes-Benz CLA and GLA vehicles. Six months into 2018, all our figures clearly show that this year will be the most successful year in the history of car2go.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

BARTA is the first major transportation authority in Pennsylvania to deploy fully electric vehicles, and the first in the US to deploy electric paratransit vehicles. The Board of Directors for BARTA voted on and approved the purchasing agreement of two vehicles from AMP Electric Vehicles at a board meeting.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Public transport is undergoing a radical transformation; Daimler Buses has identified three issues that will have a significant impact on the transport transformation: increasing connectivity; electric mobility; and digital mobility services. Electro mobility is changing particularly the conditions for all market participants.

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EV Central

JULY 19, 2023

It is strangely and disturbingly common for people to believe that Elon Musk actually invented the electric car when he created the cult, sorry, monolithic and borderline monopolistic brand that is Tesla, but the fact is that other people had thought of it before, decades before the man/myth Twit was born. There is no smell or vibration.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Three years ago, ESWE Verkehr in Wiesbaden placed its first major order for 56 all-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro city buses. In all, 120 electric buses have now been ordered. In Wiesbaden, certified and sustainable green electricity is generally used to charge the battery-driven buses.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

We actively support public transport companies to decarbonize their fleets and provide them with the corresponding infrastructure. In addition to expanding its portfolio of CO 2 -neutral vehicles, Daimler Buses will also expand its service offerings as a general contractor for customers’ complete electric infrastructure.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Mercedes-Benz unveiled its all-new eSprinter electric van today, which the German automaker pledges is its most efficient eVan yet. It will take on the Ford E-Transit , which has widely dominated the all-electric sprinter market with only a handful of worthy competitors. Packing up to 400 kilometers (248.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has delivered a fully electric eActros ( earlier post ) for on-road testing to EDEKA. EDEKA is the only company from the retail sector in Germany which will use the eActros in its own fleet of vehicles. The first eActros of the “innovation fleet” has been in service at a customer since September.

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Green Cars News

MAY 20, 2009

Daimler has acquired an equity stake of nearly 10 per cent of Tesla Motors Inc, the American electric sports car manufacturer. The German carmaker, which owns brands including Mercedes Benz, already collaborates with Telsa over an electric version of their smart car model.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The majority of the vehicles are electric, with a small number being plug-in gasoline-electric hybrids. Modern electric cars offer power and bucket loads of torque. The consortium will develop and demonstrate 110 road-worthy vehicles to be trialed in the two cities over 12 months, 40 of which will be smart electric vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 9, 2024

With Porsche planning to eliminate its more affordable combustion models for the sake of fleet-wide electrification, there has been a lot of speculation on how well that will play out for the company in the long run. However, the Taycan, like most electric vehicles in all segments, is suffering from growing consumer skepticism.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has launched its new EQV, Australia’s first fully electric luxury people mover with sumptuous seating for seven. Mercedes-Benz EQV can be no coast optioned with four captains chairs for the back. Even so, the electric EQV’s sticker price looks particularly chunky.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 19, 2021

From the rise of autonomous cars to the soaring popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) , this is one of the most exciting periods in automotive history. If you have a business which runs a fleet of cars, are in charge of managing a fleet or drive a company car for work, you’re probably asking yourself if now is the time to go electric.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

Following successful trials in the UK, the zero-emission, smart fortwo electric drive is ready for small series production. The second generation smart electric drive will also be taking part in projects in Rome, Milan and Paris. All this is made possible by a powerful 30kW electric motor which is built for us by Zytek Automotive.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 12, 2021

Even though electric vehicles (EVs) are more popular than ever, there are still several misconceptions that surround them. As the future is firmly electric, it’s about time we put some of these concerns to bed once and for all. You can’t drive very far in an electric car. Electric vehicles are too expensive.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid , we found that the hybrid system blends into the background—just like the rest of the car, which has now appropriately gone all-hybrid. Available all-wheel drive, its ratings of up to 51 mpg combined, and a comfortable, spacious interior make it one of the most appealing Camry sedans yet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

Daimler Trucks has launched an E-Mobility Group (EMG) comprising all of its electric activities. The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has already delivered the first models of its fully-electric FUSO eCanter to selected customers in the USA, Europe and Japan.

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