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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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Audi Brussels to produce exclusively e-tron quattro SUV, battery packs; A1 production moving to Spain

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Audi will transfer production of the Audi A1 from Brussels to Martorell in Spain; in 2014, Audi Brussels produced 115,378 Audi A1 models. The Audi Q3, currently produced in Spain, will be built in Győr (Hungary) in the future. The new model distribution will enhance our production efficiency and strengthen all of the sites involved.

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Audi Hungaria starts series production of electric motors

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Series production of electric motors officially started in Audi’s Gy?r, r, Hungary plant. The electric motors are produced on floor space of 8,500 square meters using an innovative modular assembly production concept. The company has invested a double-digit million amount to set up the motor production facility.

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Opel presents new midsize gasoline engine at Aachen Colloquium; fuel consumption down 13%, torque and power up 33%

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This allows the integration of different functional features directly into the raw block and offers potential to reduce production time. The engine retains the proven concept of a turbine-integrated exhaust manifold. This design was chosen instead of a twin-scroll concept because of its packaging and manufacturing advantages.

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Mercedes brings five new EVs to IAA Mobility

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Mercedes is coming to IAA Mobility with five new EVs: the Concept Mercedes-Maybach EQS , the new EQB , the new EQE , the new Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4MATIC+ , and the Concept EQG. Concept Mercedes-Maybach EQS. It will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from the Kecskemét plant in Hungary.

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BMW Vision Neue Klasse previews next-gen electric cars; 300km EV charge in 10 minutes

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What does BMW’s new concept tell us about its coming EVs? This ancestor of both the 3-Series and 5-Series model lines set BMW on the path to its present-day prosperity. So the very name of the Vision Neue Klasse concept is an indicator of its importance to BMW as the transition to EVs accelerates.

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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. Future EQ models can be integrated in the series production of existing Mercedes-Benz plants on four continents. We have laid the foundation for this.

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