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Mercedes-Benz Cars invests €1B in new “Full-Flex” car plant in Hungary; Factory 56 applied to full plant

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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. Three of them are currently being established.

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Mercedes-Benz to invest ~€500M to produce electric compact EQ model at Hambach plant

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Thereby, smart will be the first automotive brand of the world, which completely changes from combustion engines to electric drives. In Germany the smart brand is the market leader among all-electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2018. From 2020, the brand smart will only offer electric vehicles.

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

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—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, Production and Supply Chain. Class, A-Class sedan, B-Class and the compact SUV GLA are also produced at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt —with classic combustion engines as well as plug-in hybrid drive. Global battery production network.

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Mercedes-Benz prepares car production network for new electric portfolio

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—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Production and Supply Chain. Core Luxury: The Mercedes-Benz plants in Bremen, Germany and Kecskemét, Hungary to manufacture vehicles in Europe based on the MB.EA Battery systems will be supplied by the global Mercedes-Benz battery production network.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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A scholarly literature has documented this process in fields as diverse as engineering, risk reduction, management, and urban studies. Since this legislation was introduced, a number of companies have faced heavy fines, including British Airways, which in 2018 was fined £183 million for poor security arrangements following a cyberattack.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! This paid back in spades, with EV share flying from 700k EVs globally in 2020, supplying over one-third of global demand outside of China.

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