Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Mercedes is coming to IAA Mobility with five new EVs: the Concept Mercedes-Maybach EQS , the new EQB , the new EQE , the new Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4MATIC+ , and the Concept EQG. Concept Mercedes-Maybach EQS. According to WLTP, ranges of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) are planned for the Mercedes EQS SUV architecture.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is switching to a more powerful generation of lithium-ion batteries in its electric buses ( earlier post ). They are part of a large-scale order and also an important element of a plan to electrify bus transport in Lower Saxony’s capital. The new vehicles are part of an order from ÜSTRA for up to 48 city buses.

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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

APRIL 19, 2021

The new Mercedes-Benz EQB is making its debut at Auto Shanghai 2021 this week. Following the EQA 250 (combined electrical consumption: 15.7 kWh/100 km) it is the second fully electric compact car from Mercedes-EQ. This gives it an exceptional position among electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is taking an equity stake in European battery cell manufacturer Automotive Cells Company (ACC) to scale up development and production of next-generation high-performance battery cells and modules. Mercedes-Benz announced in July that it will be ready to go fully electric by the end of the decade wherever market conditions allow.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2019

The first Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle from the EQ brand made its US premiere at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. The EQC features two electric motors at the front and rear axles with a combined output of 402 hp. Mercedes-Benz engineers have enhanced noise comfort with a number of measures.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Rhein‑Neckar‑Verkehr GmbH will be the first customer for the fully-electric Citaro city bus from Mercedes-Benz. The first vehicles will be delivered at the end of 2018, and then go into practical operation in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region as part of customer trials. Earlier post.)

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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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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has announced the launch of a new battery production plant in Bibb County, Alabama, as the German automaker prepares for a commitment to make all of its vehicles electric by 2030. The EQ family of EVs from Mercedes will spearhead the company’s effort to go all-electric by the end of the decade.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mercedes-Benz will build the first production model of the new electric EQ product brand ( earlier post ) in Bremen by the end of this decade. The product brand EQ is an elementary part of the corporate strategy for future mobility bundled under the term CASE.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

Mercedes-Benz will build the fourth battery production factory in its global network—after the two plants in Kamenz and one in Beijing—at its Untertürkheim plant in Germany. This now includes new battery production at the site and the assembly of electric modules for front and rear axles.

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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.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 6, 2021

The off-track race for the EV market is getting intense especially with pioneers like Mercedes Benz. It is quite hard for giants like Mercedes to watch a Silicon Valley company steal the show since Mercedes was the name in the industry. If Mercedes does not act upon the matter seriously, the company will have to bleed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Later this year, Mercedes-Benz will add the seventh and eighth plug-in hybrids to its line up. The hybrid (plug-in and conventional) portfolio from Mercedes-Benz currently comprises 13 models. The E 350 e is also the first hybrid from Mercedes-Benz with a high trailer towing capacity of up to 2,100 kg. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As part of the planned strategic partnership, Cummins will invest in the further development of medium-duty engine systems for Daimler Trucks and Buses and the global production and delivery of medium-duty engines by Cummins for Daimler Trucks and Buses beginning in the second half of the decade. Daimler Truck AG and Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2019

Daimler Buses has equipped its Mannheim bus plant with a central charging station for the fully-electric eCitaro. It can also be used to provide the newly released eCitaro with electricity via a pantograph. The station serves to charge the eCitaro as part of the production process and ahead of delivery to customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2016

By 2025, our passenger car product portfolio will contain more than ten fully electric vehicles. They are an integral part of the vehicle architecture and not a ready-made product. Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

Mercedes-Benz announced that starting in 2026, all newly developed vans from Mercedes-Benz will be based on just one single innovative, modular and scalable architecture called VAN.EA, short for Van Electric Architecture. According to the “electric-only” strategy, VAN.EA The module is the same in all VAN.EA

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2022

This places the vehicle in competition with rivals such as Bentley and Rolls-Royce , and prices the vehicle significantly higher than luxury sedans from Lexus, BMW, Mercedes , Lucid, and Tesla; Cadillac’s more traditional rivals. Little did we know that the vehicle would be selling for 1.5 times that estimated amount.

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EV Central

JUNE 29, 2022

British-Chinese sports car specialists Lotus is confident it will win the race to become the first mainstream sports car manufacturer to offer an all-electric product range. German giant Porsche is pushing hard on EVs, with the Taycan already on sale and the next Macan SUV set to go electric. 2022 Lotus Evija hypercar.

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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. The Freightliner eCascadia with 80,000 lb.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is getting ready to go all-electric by the end of the decade, where market conditions allow, shifting from electric-first to electric-only. By 2022, Mercedes-Benz will have battery electric vehicles (BEV) in all segments the company serves. Technology Plan.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2024

Among the countless challenges of decarbonizing transportation, one of the most compelling involves electric motors. More than a few of them are at ZF Friedrichshafen AG , one of the world’s largest suppliers of parts to the automotive industry. The ZF machine is a type called a separately-excited (or doubly-excited) synchronous motor.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Andre Konsbruck, Vice President of Sales Overseas at Audi AG believes that more than 50 percent of luxury cars sold in India by 2028 will be electric vehicles and hence the German carmaker is very actively looking at localising electric vehicles in the country. At Audi it is clear – we are going fully electric in the long term.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has opened its new battery plant in Bibb County, Alabama, a few months ahead of the start of production of all-electric Mercedes-EQ vehicles in the United States. The opening of our new battery plant in Alabama is a major milestone on our way to going all-electric. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2022

billion into the development of new electric and combustion engine vehicle projects, including new versions of the gas-powered Mustang and Ranger pickup. The investment will era in the development of a new commercial electric vehicle for Ford Pro customers. Ford Motor Company announced today it would invest $3.7

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Although Tesla also appears to be considering a partnership with Canada for parts. Tesla has an exclusive customs lane for parts from the Nuevo Leon border into Texas. ” Canada has the minerals and supplies automakers need to manufacture electric vehicles and EV batteries. Tesla Giga Mexico. Tesla Gigafactories in Asia.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 25, 2021

BEVs), so we can say with some certainty that part of the fall on the overall market has more to do with the disruption provoked by plugins than Covid-related issues. After all we are living in the Crossover Craze era. And having said that about PHEVs, the same goes for fully electric vehicles! of 2019 (2.2%

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APRIL 1, 2021

Amy Sinclair speaks to friend about driving electric. Amy Sinclair is the only woman presently serving on the board of the Golden Gate Electric Vehicle Association (GGEVA) , and for many years she has been one of the few female members of this Electric Auto Association (EAA) Bay Area chapter.

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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. The anniversary bus is an eCitaro as a two-door solo bus and is part of the second delivery batch.

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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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