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Sales of BEVs In South Africa For First 6 Months Of 2023 Have Already Matched Last Year’s Total

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265,970 vehicles were sold in South Africa from January to June this year. Of these, 501 were full battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). of all the vehicles registered in the first 6 months of the year in South Africa were fully electric. That means just 0.2%

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Mercedes-Benz To Introduce The EQA, EQB, EQC, & EQS In South Africa

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The BMW i3 was the only fully electric vehicle available in South Africa for a very long time. Since its introduction around 2015, it has gone on to be South Africa’s all time top-selling fully electric vehicle up to now. The BMW i8 also tops the plug-in hybrid charts.

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Justus Visagie Sets Another EV Road Trip Record In South Africa, This Time In A BMW i4 M50

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Motoring journalist Justus Visagie has been doing road trips in electric vehicles in South Africa to show that fully electric cars can easily cover long distances in the country.

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BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

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By the end of 2022, each of our German plants will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle. The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. Rendering of the new assembly hall. —Milan Nedeljkovi?, —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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All-electric member of new Mercedes S-Class on market next year: EQS based on new electric architecture

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In the compact class, production of the EQA, the fully electric brother of the GLA, will start later this year, followed by the EQB in 2021. The new generation of electric vehicles in the luxury and executive segment is based on a custom-developed architecture, which is scalable in every aspect and can be used across model series.

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Heavy Duty Electric Trucks Now Being Offered In Some African Countries

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Whenever I ask them why they have not yet introduced electric cars and vans from the brands they represent in the respective countries, yet these same brands have had a number of fully electric models in Europe and other markets […]

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Mercedes-Benz realigning global production organization for passenger cars; organizing by product architecture

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Further investment also goes to the Rastatt compact car plant, where the fully-electric B-Class electric drive has been seamlessly integrated into series product. Another €1 billion go to the Untertürkheim core plant, amongst others for the expansion of engine production. Mercedes-Benz sales top one million mark in August.

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