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

MAY 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is expanding its production capacities for electric cars in Europe. The Hambach plant in France, which currently produces smart brand electric vehicles, will produce a compact electric car of the new product and technology brand EQ. From 2020, the brand smart will only offer electric vehicles.

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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

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

MARCH 5, 2020

Daimler Trucks has launched additional electric Freightliner trucks for customer testing in North America. Over a period of 22 months, 14 different customers from a range of sectors will operate the all-electric trucks within their daily transport business.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Mercedes-Benz will set up electric vehicle production in the United States. The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz US International), its Tuscaloosa, Alabama facility. —Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Daimler will buy more than €20 billion (US$23 billion) of battery cells for electric drive vehicles by 2030, the company announced. With extensive orders for battery cells until the year 2030, we set another important milestone for the electrification of our future electric vehicles of the EQ product and technology brand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks is taking the next step in its electrification of trucks with the battery-electric low-floor heavy-duty truck Mercedes-Benz eEconic. The eEconic is based on the eActros electric truck for heavy distribution, which will already go into series production in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Mercedes-Benz started its “Intelligent World Drive” at the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA) in September to adapt more highly automated driving functions to national user and traffic practices. In this process, Mercedes-Benz cooperates in, among others, a joint research project with Tsinghua University.

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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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EV Central

MAY 10, 2024

Cadillac will be a “tier-one luxury brand” in Australia, with the incoming Lyriq EV to be followed by a fleet of a high-end electric vehicles that will target Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus in our market. “We know that obviously Cadillac as a brand globally has revealed more cars than just the Lyriq.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has delivered the first vehicle in its Freightliner Electric Innovation Fleet—a Freightliner eM2 ( earlier post )—to Penske Truck Leasing, fulfilling its promise to put an electric commercial truck in customer hands in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2019

compared to the 552,500 units of June 2018. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. The diesel crisis is particularly challenging in Scandinavia, where electric cars continue to increase their market share. The results of diesel and electric vehicles contrast heavily across Europe. of all registrations.

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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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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. The introduction of the one-ton pickup with seating for up to 5 people will make Mercedes-Benz the first premium manufacturer to account for the changing customer requirements in the global segment of mid-size pickups.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

Bosch, a leading supplier of technology for diesel engines, recently provided an overview of trends it sees in the diesel engine marketplace globally. This statistic increases to two-thirds of all new registrations if the data are restricted to passenger cars, according to Bosch.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. Electric motorcycles breakout.

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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. The two models will reach European showrooms in the spring of 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

One major milestone of the past year includes the EV versions of the new smart fortwo, smart cabrio and smart forfour (Electric energy consumption: 13.1 – 12.9 These all-new smart and the Renault Twingo were the first vehicles built on a common platform by Daimler and the Alliance. kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions, combined: 0 g/km).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

The production of Mercedes-Benz brand vehicles will follow in 2018. It also shows how our collaboration, which began in Europe, has become global in scope. The first engine to be assembled at the all-new facility is a 2.0-liter Start of production is planned for 2017 with Infiniti models.

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EV Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

December's brilliant result has allowed the the full 2020 numbers to increase 41% regarding 2019, a step above the 2019 growth rate (+10%), and an (almost) return to the 50%-ish growth rates that plugins have experienced historically, since start of the Third Age of the Electric Car started, back in 2011. share (4.9% plugin share (1.9%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The new production facility is planned to start operations in the middle of 2018. By 2025, our passenger car product portfolio will contain more than ten fully electric vehicles. Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The company’s share price has also been trending downward since 2018, though it has remained mostly flat since October of 2022. billion in revenue in 2018. In December 2022, that figure had come back up to £1.4 — making it seem as though the hard times were the result of economic issues created via the global response to COVID-19.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Public transport is undergoing a radical transformation; Daimler Buses has identified three issues that will have a significant impact on the transport transformation: increasing connectivity; electric mobility; and digital mobility services. Electro mobility is changing particularly the conditions for all market participants.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is aligning its global production network to manufacture its reshaped product portfolio focused on luxury electric vehicles as the brand prepares to go all electric by the end of the decade—wherever market conditions allow. platform (AMG Electric Architecture) from 2025.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

ISO 15118, known as the “Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Communication Interface,” stands out as a pivotal international standard for electric vehicle (EV) charging. Key Features of ISO 15118 Bi-directional Power Flow: ISO 15118 enables electric vehicles (EVs) to not only draw power from the grid but also send it back.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The European car market recorded the highest monthly decline of the last decade in September 2018, as 1.12 In contrast, electric, hybrid and plug-in vehicles posted their highest market share to date at 7.9%, as demand for them bucked the general market trend and increased by 12.7% in September 2018. and a volume decline of 40%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

million kilometers) of testing in daily customer operations, Daimler Truck and its US Freightliner brand recently unveiled the all-electric eCascadia that will enter series production in 2022. The eCascadia is driven by an eAxle integrated with an electric motor, transmission and specialized electronics within a compact unit.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

But it was the positive economic situation across the continent that boosted results, JATO said, as midsize markets such as the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden all posted increases, and smaller markets like Hungary, Greece, Romania, Croatia and Lithuania similarly posted significant increases. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst.

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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

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. The technological heart of the ePowertrain is, as a first step, the integrated electric drive, the eDrive.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2021

It's a great time to be a battery maker: The world could see 145 million electric vehicles on roads by 2030, versus 10 million in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency. Buyers registered 3 million new EVs globally last year. Ford figures that's about six plants' worth of homegrown capacity, and 10 globally.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In October, a startup called Jidu Automotive , backed by Chinese AI giant Baidu and Chinese carmaker Geely , officially released an autonomous electric car, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition. Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz is offering its Drive Pilot Level 3 autonomous driving system on S-Class and EQS sedans in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

2018 marked a record year for the sale of battery-powered electric vehicles, according to data from JATO Dynamics. Passenger electric cars recorded 1.26 of total global sales). It was one of the highest increases among all car categories on the global market, which can be explained by several factors, JATO said.

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 31, 2021

Despite the continued global chip shortage and lingering concerns and uncertainty about the Coronavirus pandemic, the first half of 2021 saw record sales of electric vehicles, according to the just released EVAdoption report, US Electric Vehicle Sales Report: 1H 2021. US Electric Vehicle Sales 2018 – 2021.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Competing in the premium midsize SUV category, the 2021 Cadillac XT5 is right in the middle of stiff competition, including models from Acura, Audi, BMW, Genesis, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla and Volvo. Some of these come as hybrids, plug-in hybrids or full electrics, upping the ante even more.

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