Mercedes-Benz announced yesterday that it will spend more than 1 billion euros to adjust its global electric powertrain production network from 2024, including battery assembly, electric drives and axles.
“Every Mercedes-Benz plant is included in the new production network,” the company said. Among them, Germany’s Kamenz plant, Germany’s Untertuerkheim plant, and Beijing plant will assemble batteries for models based on the MMA and MB.EA platforms; Germany’s Untertuerkheim plant, Beijing plant and Romania’s Sebes plant will also produce electric drives for vehicles on the new platform; Hamburg, Germany The plant and the Untertuerkheim plant will remain the main plants for assembling electric axles and components.
Mercedes-Benz wants to be an all-electric brand by 2030, “as soon as market conditions permit”. In this strategy, the Unterturkheim plant near Stuttgart, Germany, will transition to a “purely electric” role.
The German luxury brand launched its EQ range of all-electric vehicles in 2016 with the Generation EQ concept car, but the company’s first attempt at a battery-powered vehicle dates back to the 1900s, with the Mercédès Electrique in 1906. For years, Mercedes-Benz has experimented with electric vehicles with prototypes of buses, Vans, station wagons, sedans and city cars.
The first mass-produced EQ model from Mercedes-Benz is the EQE SUV launched in 2019, followed by a series of sedans, crossovers and Vans, the total number of models that will be offered in just a few years Increased to 10 paragraphs.
