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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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Schaeffler introducing 4in1 electric axles for EVs

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Heat is a scarce and valuable resource in electric cars, which do not have the waste heat from internal combustion engines for heating the interior, for example. In September 2021, production started at its plant in Szombathely, Hungary. Axles like these are more than two meters wide.

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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“He started selling the idea to me and even bribed me by promising an internship at Philips , where he had connections. Because electrical engineering uses a lot of mathematics, a subject Gelenbe liked, he figured he wouldn’t be wasting his time by studying EE. He had emigrated from the Netherlands. He kind of twisted my arm.”

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