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Rolls-Royce to power Vertical Aerospace’s all-electric eVTOL UAM aircraft

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Vertical Aerospace is a key collaboration for Rolls-Royce Electrical as it marks its first commercial deal in the UAM market and builds on previous agreements to work with partners on demonstrator programmes.

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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. Mercedes-Benz Cars produced more than 2.4

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Daimler contracts with Valmet to increase production of new A-Class

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Daimler has signed an agreement with the Finnish Supplier Valmet Automotive for the production of more than 100,000 units of the new A-Class ( earlier post ) for Daimler from 2013 through 2016. We thus signed Valmet as an experienced production specialist who will provide us with additional A-Class capacities as of 2013.

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

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BBAC), launched EQC production for the local market in China. It is produced there on the same line as the C-Class Saloon and Estate as well as the GLC and GLC Coupé. Compact car class customers can look forward to two fully electric compact SUVs in the EQA and EQB in 2021. kWh/100 km) started in Vitoria, northern Spain.

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Mercedes introducing EQB compact electric SUV in Shanghai

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The market launch in China is scheduled for this year. After Europe, the international version of the EQB, produced in Kecskemét, Hungary, will be launched at the end of the year, followed by the US market launch in 2022. Following the EQA 250 (combined electrical consumption: 15.7

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BYD wants to bring a Land Rover-style SUV that can ‘float on water’ to Europe

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Chinese EV behemoth BYD may bring two off-road electric SUVs sold in China to Europe that could rival the Land Rover Defender, the Mercedes G-Class, and Ford Bronco. Last December, the automaker said it would build a factory in Hungary for the European market, with an initial capacity of 200,000 units a year.

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Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant to produce compact electric EQ vehicles; 3rd center of competence for EQ models in Germany

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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 company will decide on the basis of market demand which foreign locations will produce further EQ models within the production network. Earlier post.).

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