Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. —Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services Mercedes-Benz Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Mercedes-Benz do Brasil has presented the fully electric eO500U bus chassis. The battery charging system of the eO500U is a plug-in system with the same technological standard that Daimler Buses has installed in the fully electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro city bus. The fully electric bus chassis has a range of up to 250 kilometers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Canadian battery material specialist Hydro-Québec is partnering with Mercedes-Benz as part of the automaker’s research and development activities on future EV technology. Hydro-Québec and Mercedes-Benz researchers will cooperate to test new materials under field conditions to accelerate the development cycle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The partners will collaborate in the development of ecosystems for heavy-duty trucks running on hydrogen, with the intent to demonstrate the attractiveness and effectiveness of trucking powered by clean hydrogen and the ambition to play a lead role in kickstarting the rollout of hydrogen infrastructure for transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

The Egenberger bus company in Thierhaupten, Germany has taken delivery of two Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric buses. The company is partner to the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund AVV (public transport association) in Augsburg and also operates tourist travel and a bus rental service.

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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 ). The first eCitaro G articulated buses have now been delivered to Hanover’s transport operator, ÜSTRA. 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 manufacturer expects that the e-truck will significantly accelerate the far-reaching transformation of road freight transport towards CO 2 -neutral drives.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has been awarded a far-reaching contract for road monitoring through vehicle data by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Min I&W). The raw material for this is anonymized data from car-to-X or other systems from intelligent, connected Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

VW & Tesla Down, Mercedes Up. The overall German auto market was down by 6% in November, to 245,701 units, [continued] The post The Battle For Germany’s EV Market, Part XI — BMW Shines! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2021

The Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth is becoming the center for emission-free transport within the Mercedes-Benz truck production network. Both parties agreed on key points for the future development and safeguarding of the future of Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ largest location.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mercedes-Benz Cars has begun production of the first Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles with plug-in hybrid drive ( earlier post ) at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in southern Germany. The production launch of the Mercedes-Benz A-class in two plug-in hybrid models is a strategic milestone as part of our global electric initiative.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Researchers in the EU RECOTRANS (Integrated manufacturing of REcyclable multi-material COmposites for the TRANSport sector) have used microwaves and laser welding to obtain recyclable composites for automotive and transport. The joint between the composite and metal parts was made using laser welding.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

Rome-based transport company, Atac, will receive 100 Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid buses. They are part of an ambitious investment program to modernize the bus fleet of the transport company in Italy’s capital. It operates in a need-optimized way and likewise helps reduce fuel consumption in local city transport.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-AMG laid out its new electrified drive strategy , which is based on two pillars: Performance hybrids with a completely independent drive concept under the technology label E PERFORMANCE. Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles.

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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. kWh/100 km) it is the second fully electric compact car from Mercedes-EQ. As a seven-seater (optional, but standard in China), the new EQB offers space for many family constellations and a wide variety of transport needs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

German logistics service provider Pfenning Logistics will be using a Mercedes-Benz eActros battery-electric 25-tonne truck to supply the Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant. In October 2018, Mercedes-Benz Trucks handed over an eActros in Mannheim to concrete producer TBS Transportbeton.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2020

Belgian food box provider HelloFresh has received seven Mercedes-Benz eVito refrigerated electric vans with a cooling upfit made by Kerstner. The result was a vehicle which is based on the Mercedes-Benz eVito and which, together with the refrigerated body specialists from Kerstner, was further developed to market maturity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

With “Startup adVANce”, a large-scale startup partnership challenge, Mercedes-Benz Vans is starting its search for intelligent solutions relating to the transport of goods and passengers. As part of its recently introduced strategic initiative adVANce ( earlier post ), the company is to invest a total of €1 million (US$1.12

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

Mercedes-Benz Mobility and BMW Group intend to sell their car-sharing joint venture SHARE NOW to Stellantis. Although Mercedes-Benz will focus more strongly on its core business in the luxury segment, car sharing will remain an important part of urban mobility and an essential element in the mobility offer at FREE NOW.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first fully-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro city buses were handed over on 18 November 2019 to ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (ESWE Verkehr) in Wiesbaden. The vehicles are part of a large-scale order for 56 units of the battery-powered city bus which is series-produced in Mannheim, Germany.

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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

MAY 17, 2017

At the Global Public Transport Summit (GPTS) in Montreal/Canada, the congress of the International Association of Public Transport, UITP, Mercedes-Benz again confirmed that battery-electric versions of its Citro bus ( earlier post ) would enter series production next year. prototypes are already undergoing testing on the roads.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 29, 2023

A recent announcement from Mercedes-Benz reveals that it is going to start rolling out its own EV charging network. Mercedes-Benz Charging Hubs Mercedes-Benz will launch its first high-power charging stations this fall, as part of its […]

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has handed over a fully electric eActros truck to Murg Valley (Southern Germany)-based logistics company Logistik Schmitt. As part of the eWayBW project, commercial transport will be electric on the B462 federal road around Rastatt with the test operation of catenary trucks as of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Mercedes-Benz Vans has launched an initiative it calls adVANce, focused on the company’s transformation from solely a vehicle manufacturer to becoming a provider of holistic system solutions for goods and passenger transport. Mercedes-Benz Vans also presented the "Vision Van" van study as part of the adVANce initiative.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The eActros has been proving its worth since 2018 in multi-faceted practical use with customers as a locally CO2-neutral alternative for urban distribution transport. We are delighted that DB Schenker, as a pioneer for alternative drive systems in transport logistics, is now also electrifying the city center of Leipzig with the eActros.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2018

Mercedes-Benz will introduce its 12m battery-electric Citaro bus in September at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show, with the start of series production also taking place this year. Mercedes-Benz uses prismatic cells with a capacity of 37 Ah each. Earlier post.) Each separate cell module houses twelve battery cells. Charging technology.

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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. The weight of the transported goods can be up to 10 tonnes. —Oliver Kraft, Head of Key Account Management Mercedes-Benz Trucks Germany. COOL model supplied by Schmitz Cargobull.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-Benz will build the next generation eSprinter electric van, which is based on the newly developed Electric Versatility Platform ( earlier post ), at three locations: North Charleston, South Carolina; and Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde in Germany. Mercedes-Benz is investing around €350 million in the next generation eSprinter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2021

The Mercedes-Benz plant in Gaggenau, which specializes in heavy-duty commercial vehicle transmissions, will develop into a competence center for electric drive components as well as the assembly of hydrogen-based fuel cell drive components. Which solution is used by the customer depends on the specific application.

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APRIL 10, 2019

The public transport company ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH from Wiesbaden in Germany’s Hesse region has ordered 56 Mercedes?Benz As a provider of comprehensive electromobility solutions, Mercedes? For this reason, Mercedes-Benz will offer the eCitaro with a choice of NMC or solid-state batteries.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Daimler AG, with its wholly owned subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH, and Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., Together, Mercedes-Benz Energy and Beijing Electric Vehicle plan to set up the first 2nd-life energy storage unit in Beijing, making use of retired BJEV electric car batteries. —Gordon Gassmann, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Energy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2023

Another thing Mercedes did to make the vehicle more efficient was to limit the frontal area. Weight Reduction & Cooling According to Mercedes, the […] The EQX has a frontal area of 2.12 square meters. This puts its frontal area below that of the Toyota Prius or Tesla Model 3, which are around 2.2 square meters.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Daimler plans a fundamental change in its structure, splitting into two independent pure-play companies: Mercedes-Benz Cars & Vans, and Daimler Truck, which will be a spin-off the current Truck and Bus business. In addition, it is also Daimler’s intention to rename itself as Mercedes-Benz at the appropriate time.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Mercedes-Benz announced its integration with the Google Assistant on Google Home. Google Home, a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant, makes it possible to interact with the Mercedes-Benz vehicle from home. The feature will be available to Mercedes-Benz customers in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled its Vision URBANETIC mobility concept. Vision URBANETIC eliminates the separation between people moving and goods transport. The visionary concept is based on a self-driving, electrically powered chassis that can take different switchable bodies for people moving or goods transport. A load space 3.70

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JUNE 4, 2024

Mercedes and Stellantis have stopped work on their joint European EV battery factory projects, and are reassessing which direction to move forward with the possibility of shifting to cheaper lithium iron phosphate cells. The battery is the most costly part of an EV, and cutting costs there can help a lot.

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