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Daimler battery subsidiary Accumotive doubles the amount of employees to approximately 1,000

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Mercedes-Benz cars will invest €10 billion in the expansion of its electric fleet. This includes in Germany Kamenz and Stuttgart-Untertürkheim with two battery factories each as well as Sindelfingen, Peking (China), Bangkok (Thailand) and Tuscaloosa (US). The company is planning to offer more than 130 electrified vehicle variants.

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Daimler buying more than €20B of battery cells for electric drive vehicles by 2030

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Two more factories will be built in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, one at the company’s Sindelfingen site, and one each at the sites in Beijing (China), Bangkok (Thailand) and Tuscaloosa (USA). Mercedes-Benz Vans electrifies its entire commercial fleet. The eSprinter will follow in the second half of 2019.

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Micromobility: Zapp Scooters Bring Style, Range and Fun to Urban Riding

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Built in Thailand, the i300 is part of a worldwide wave of transportation options that are moving from fossil-fuel power to electric. The packs can charge from 20 to 80 percent on household 110-volt current in under an hour. Zapp is planning a fleet of service vans to take care of maintenance and problems. Range and Power.

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GM to double models with 40 mpg highway or better by 2017; ongoing manufacturing efficiency improvements

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l/100 km) highway or better; and to reduce the average CO 2 tailpipe emissions of its US fleet by 15%. Opel also estimates it will reduce the average carbon tailpipe emissions from its fleet by 27% by 2020. —2012 Sustainability Report. In 2012, GM invested more than $7.3 The 2020 target was raised from 0.70 MWh per vehicle.

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Mercedes-Benz will be producing 8 all-electric EQ models in 2022

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neutral vehicle fleet and to the Mercedes-Benz AG electric offensive. Since the start of production at Accumotive, more than a million batteries based on lithium-ion technology for electric, plug-in hybrid vehicles and 48-volt systems have been produced at the Kamenz site.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences. The 2900 miles traveled by the Volt, drawing upon its combustion engine, produced far less CO 2 since the Volt uses a small and more efficient engine.

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