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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.

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BEV overtake diesels sales for the first time in Europe

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to 1 million registered units, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) data. This growth can be attributed to the region’s rebound from a low comparison base last year, primarily driven by vehicle component shortages. In June 2023, the EU car market grew by 17.8%

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4Q 2019: EU diesel demand continues to drop while gasoline gains; plug-ins up 80.5% y-o-y

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of new-car registrations, according to data from ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. of the EU market, while electrically?chargeable chargeable vehicles (ECV) made up 4.4% digit gains were also seen in Belgium (+17.7%), Slovenia (+18.2%), Hungary (+18.4%), Sweden (+30.5%) and Romania (+31.1%).

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BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

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By the end of 2022, each of our German plants will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle. The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. Rendering of the new assembly hall. —Milan Nedeljkovi?, —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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China’s BYD tops 1.6 million BEV sales in 2023

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million fully battery-electric vehicles last year, coming close to Tesla’s projected goal of 1.8 million vehicles. Adding up sales for all so-called new energy vehicles, including battery-only vehicles and hybrids, BYD sold 3 million vehicles in 2023. In 2023, the company sold 1.6 In China, some 1.5

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

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In 2020 production of the EQV premium electric MPV (combined power consumption: 26.4 In May 2019, the EQC 400 4MATIC as a purely electric vehicle, was integrated into the ongoing series production of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. smart rounds off the electric Mercedes-Benz Cars portfolio with three additional models.

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Teijin Frontier to acquire J.H. Ziegler; addressing EV demand

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The company operates five facilities globally, including three in Germany and one each in Hungary and China, and employs approximately 400 staff. The company also produces market-leading top-quality sound-absorbing materials and nonwovens for home interior and heat insulation use.

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