Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Hermes and Mercedes-Benz Vans have agreed on a wide-ranging strategic partnership to electrify the courier service’s vehicle fleet. The companies are to start using battery-electric vehicles in the logistics provider’s normal operations in a pilot phase in Stuttgart and Hamburg in early 2018.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Mercedes-Benz considers empathy and trust to be central factors for the acceptance of self-driving vehicles. Mercedes-Benz is conducting research into this “informed trust” with the help of the “cooperative car”. People can understand this communication intuitively, Mercedes-Benz suggests.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

Last fall, Mercedes-Benz Vans announced it would offer electric drive options on all its commercial van model lines starting with the mid-size eVito, with further model ranges following in 2019. Mercedes-Benz Vans also announced that it will augment its powertrain line-up in the medium term with a fuel cell option.

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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 For example, our locally CO 2 -neutral city bus eCitaro has been in series production since 2018 and electrifies public transport in many cities. The Mercedes-Benz eActros and eEconic. million miles).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled two design variants of the Concept X-CLASS, previewing the coming X-Class pickup, in Stockholm. With the pickup, Mercedes-Benz Vans will also expand its product range with a fourth model series. With the pickup, Mercedes-Benz Vans will also expand its product range with a fourth model series.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. All three German Mercedes-Benz car plants—Rastatt, Bremen and Sindelfingen—will now produce EQ-brand EVs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

With new connectivity services, electric drive and individual hardware solutions for the cargo space, the large van is intended to make customers’ business in a connected world significantly more efficient. Mercedes-Benz is investing some €2.5 —Volker Mornhinweg, Head of Mercedes?Benz billion (US$3.1 million times.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Today, we've got clever new ads that highlight how electric cars should be sold, an Uber ban on diesels in London, a sales goal for the 2018 Nissan Leaf, and more about next week's Frankfurt auto show. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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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. The number of car2go customers has increased by 10% in the first six months of 2018 to a global total of 3.3 —car2go CEO Olivier Reppert.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 31, 2023

It was formed in 2017 by BMW, Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), Ford and the VW Group (Hyundai/Kia joined later), and its first stations went live in Q2 2018. By all accounts, Ionity works largely as claimed, with few reliability problems. The German members, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, doggedly kept the plan alive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

The battery-electric versions from smart are the first series-produced models of the EQ product and technology brand. EQ offers a comprehensive electric mobility eco-system comprising products, services, technologies and innovations. It will be based on the Concept EQ which was shown in Paris in 2016.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2017

Over the last two years, Audi and Mercedes-Benz have released severa; all-electric concept cars that are thinly disguised production models to arrive in 2018 and beyond. But electric-car pioneer BMW's plans are less clear.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The E-Mobility Group of Daimler Trucks & Buses is launching a worldwide initiative to establish a charging infrastructure for battery-electric trucks. In addition, the participants are also concerned with aspects such as optimized load management of the electricity grid and sustainable electricity supply.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. In addition, all European Daimler Trucks & Buses plants will be CO 2 -neutral by the year 2022. All other plants will follow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks unveiled the concept Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck, marking the beginning of a fuel-cell push by Daimler for the long-haul transport segment. Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul. Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul. Daimler Trucks plans to have the eActros LongHaul ready for series production in 2024. ePowertrain.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Mercedes-Benz is investing a total of around €3 billion (US$3.3 There will be world premieres for new advanced technologies, such as the Integrated Starter-Alternator (ISG); the 48 V electrical system; and the electric auxiliary compressor (eZV). billion) in its strategic engine initiative. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

SF Motors, a Silicon Valley electric vehicle (EV) startup and subsidiary of Shanghai-based Sokon Industry Group ( earlier post ), announced its latest technological advances and a new line of intelligent electric vehicles at an event at its Santa Clara headquarters. SF Motors acquired InEVit Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

In a world premiere, Mercedes-Benz unveiled the self-driving fuel cell hybrid electric F 015 Luxury in Motion concept at the CES. research vehicle from 2011 ( earlier post ), and combines on-board generation of electricity with an exceptionally powerful and compact high-voltage battery. The drive system in the 2011 F 125!,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Development work on these continues; Audi, for example, is refining MLB evo—the second-generation of MLB and the foundation for the battery-electric e-tron quattro SUV due out in 2018. We want to be the first one to produce more than 1 million electric cars. Earlier post.) It will appear like a tablet on wheels.

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China EV

APRIL 11, 2019

WM’s BEVs are part of a digital ecosystem, he told me, one where owners use the connected car to meet your daily needs from paying for insurance for the car to paying for parking, electricity, and everything else Chinese already do digitally anyway using WeChat. I don’t want to be Mercedes.”

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing. Meanwhile, the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in car sharing services could be one way for automakers to promote this technology that is still struggling for traction in the marketplace.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

GKN Driveline has begun testing an SUV technology research vehicle which showcases the company’s eDrive, All-Wheel Drive (AWD) and systems integration capabilities. Torque vectoring by GKN’s Twinster system is available on all four wheels—a world first.

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EV Central

JULY 26, 2023

EV Central’s 2023 Peugeot e-Partner review: The Peugeot e-Partner compact electric van adds another contender to the small but growing light commercial EV segment. It’s also the first battery electric model from the French brand in Australia, with three more EVs due before the end of 2024, including the larger e-Expert medium van.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The car that once advertised itself as “The Standard of the World” will go all-electric. It seems about as relevant to the electric-vehicle transition as a Caterpillar excavator. Yet Cadillac is leading the high end of General Motors’ ambitious move into EVs for all its brands. Lyriq launch pulled ahead.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Despite the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic slowdown, the outlook for electric vehicles (EVs) remains very promising thanks to the rapid pace of innovation. While they were previously just a means to and end, chargers are now a tool that empowers electric cars to do much more. solar panels), home and EV.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

These are all dates that various automakers, electric vehicle organizations, and states have declared when they want to ban the sale of or end their production of vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine. Chart: EVAdoption / Loren McDonald. EV Price Parity With ICE Vehicles Is Fast Approaching.

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