Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The logistics service provider Dachser is planning to add 50 units of Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul ( earlier post ), presented at this year’s IAA Transportation, to its European fleet. We are all the more pleased that the logistics company is now also planning to rely on the eActros LongHaul in the next step, reinforcing our e-strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

Since July 2019, the purely battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros has proven its worth in extensive field testing at the company Logistik Schmitt. The eActros’ operation at Logistik Schmitt has therefore proven that a battery-electric truck can perform the same tasks as a conventional diesel vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2019

As of January 2019, fully owned Daimler subsidiary NuCellSys GmbH will operate under the name of Mercedes-Benz Fuel Cell GmbH. By changing the company name we are sending a clear signal and emphasizing the future relevance of fuel cell technology. —Professor Christian Mohrdieck, Head of Mercedes-Benz Fuel Cell GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mercedes-Benz revealed the latest member of its electric lineup, the EQE SUV—which the company positions as the multipurpose variant of the EQE executive sedan. AMG also presented the 2024 AMG EQE SUV, the performance version of the EQE SUV and the first all-electric performance SUV from Mercedes-AMG.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Mercedes-Benz Vans will offer electric drive options on all its commercial van model lines. The eVito, the second all-electric production model from Mercedes-Benz Vans after the 2010 Vito E-Cell, starts at €39,990 (US$47,000) (in Germany excl. Electric drive strategy.

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2024

Strip away the oddball name and sleek show car design touches and the Genesis Neolun concept unveiled in New York this week gives a strong hint of the upcoming GV90 battery electric large SUV. READ MORE: 2024 Genesis GV60 Lux review: Is this mind-bending small electric SUV really worth all this money?

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Sila, a battery materials company, has released the specifications for their newest battery anode, which will be used in the upcoming Mercedes EQG. Mercedes is expected to roll out numerous massive platform upgrades alongside the EQG, which will be the company’s first all-electric variant of the fabled G-Class.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Toyota wants to bring the Land Cruiser brand into the electric future with two new EVs. The company is reportedly gearing up to electrify the Toyota Land Cruiser with its own brand. As Toyota’s longest-running nameplate, it only makes sense for an electric Land Cruiser.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

The G-Wagon is finally going all-electric. Mercedes-Benz is unveiling its long-awaited electric G-Class at the Beijing Motor Show later this month. Mercedes has been teasing the electric 4×4 since the concept version debuted in 2021. Since then, Mercedes has been previewing the concept for months.

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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. The company has now given a preview of the new locally emission-free 12-meter variant. Earlier post.) Rooftop battery packs. Thermal management.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 11, 2023

The upcoming Mercedes EQG, the electric variant of the historic G-Class SUV, has been spotted completing winter testing in Germany. The Mercedes G Class SUV is one of the oldest model names in the automotive industry, and despite its long heritage, it has changed in design and purpose very little. View this post on Instagram.

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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 Reports

MAY 17, 2017

Mercedes-Benz has big plans for electric vehicles in the future, but its main nod to what those plans will bring thus far is the EQ Concept. Shown at the Paris Motor Show last year, the vehicle represents a conceptual version of the first of many electric vehicles to come from the Germany luxury marque.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. The plan calls for 33.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

By the end of this decade, Daimler Buses intends to offer all-electric coaches with its Mercedes-Benz and Setra brands. City buses with an all-electric drive, such as the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro, are now a familiar sight on the streets of many German and European cities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Lab1886, the innovation unit for business models within Mercedes-Benz AG, is now supporting drive and energy system provider Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG in a pilot project in the field of stationary energy supply systems. Fuel-cell technology is an integral part of the Mercedes-Benz’s powertrain strategy.

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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

MAY 12, 2014

The Germany-based Center of Automotive Management (CAM), in cooperation with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) AG WPG, named the Volkswagen Group the world’s most innovative automotive company in its 2014 AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Awards; this marks the fourth consecutive time Volkswagen Group has picked up the top award. Mercedes-Benz.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

The assistant will be rolled out in vehicles including the new concept CLA class, an all-electric take on the carmaker’s smaller four-door model, premiering in North America at the trade show. Mercedes-Benz said an added feature of its new voice assistant was a plausibility check for the responses it provides.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

To help its transition, Kia is bringing on former longtime Mercedes-Benz and BMW designers. Kia brings on ex-Mercedes, BMW designers amid EV shift Kia announced Tuesday that it has hired senior chief designers Oliver Samson and Seungmo Lim as head of its Europe and China Design Centers. The move is effective April 1st.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has delivered another all-electric eActros ( earlier post ) to a customer for on-road testing: Meyer-Logistik. Meyer-Logistik is one of twenty customers from different industries that have integrated the heavy-duty electric truck into their fleet. COOL model supplied by Schmitz Cargobull.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant will produce electric vehicles in the new electric EQ brand ( earlier post ), according to an agreement the company and works council have signed after intensive negotiations. Earlier post.) Wheelbase and track are variable. EQ and CASE.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Mercedes-Benz announced a partnership with China-based Farasis Energy ( earlier post ) for the supply of battery cells produced with electricity from renewable energies as well as recycling and the observance of human rights in the supply chain. Mercedes-Benz is currently in dialogue with other strategic partners about this.

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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. The decision is based on a declaration of intent, which the company has set up with the works council. We have laid the foundation for this.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

Mercedes-Benz is making a strategic push on plug-in hybrids: the Stuttgart-based automaker will introduce 10 new plug-in hybrid models by 2017. The company said that the main emphasis as regards alternative drives in years to come will be on plug-in hybrids. Earlier post.). Background.

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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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

If you were waiting for a smaller, cheaper Toyota electric car, you may have to keep waiting. When asked why Toyota has no plans to address the market, Carlucci said there’s a “premium attached to electric cars.” Toyota Urban electric SUV concept (Source: Toyota) It will be offered in two battery options.

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Drive Electric

JULY 29, 2021

German vehicle maker Mercedes-Benz has reaffirmed its all-electric future by confirming plans to launch three electric-only architectures by 2025. The underpinnings for its large roster of models, Mercedes is ensuring that its customers will be able to pick a BEV option for every model the company makes.

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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. Overall, the company is investing €1 billion in the new car plant and creating more than 2,500 jobs. Thereby we lift the production concept of ‘Factory 56’ to the next level.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As the first fully connected integral system solution, the third generation of the Sprinter demonstrates the development of the division from purely a vehicle manufacturer into a provider of complete transport and mobility solutions, the company said. Mercedes-Benz is investing some €2.5 —Volker Mornhinweg, Head of Mercedes?Benz

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Genesis has unveiled the GV80 electric SUV concept, which shows an unusual next step in performance EVs for the brand. Genesis has been on a mission to take on the world’s top luxury automotive brands since its inception, but it has never been closer to competing with the likes of BMW and Mercedes than now.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 10, 2021

Mercedes-Benz announced today that it has started accepting orders for the EQS all-electric sedan, starting at €106,374.10 In development for several years , Mercedes-Benz unveiled the EQS on April 15th, aiming to take a stab at the EV giants who have dominated the industry. Credit: Mercedes Benz. kWh battery.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Explaining the longstanding preference for software startups among VCs, Andreessen said, “There are so many more things that can go wrong in a hardware company. There are so many more ways a hardware company can blow up in a nonrecoverable way.” There is no company that does 100 percent in-house.” Aerospace is a team sport.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The Vision F-Cell is Fuso’s concept of an electric truck that uses the power of a Fuel Cell as one option to extend the range of an electric vehicle. The Vision F-Cell is Fuso’s concept of an electric truck that uses the power of a Fuel Cell as one option to extend the range of an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Daimler AG has commenced deliveries of Mercedes-Benz stationary energy storage units ( earlier post ) for use in private homes. The lithium-ion batteries are being manufactured by the Daimler subsidiary Deutsche ACCUMOTIVE and distributed through selected sales partners and partner companies. The systems are scalable—i.e.,

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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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