Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

German logistics service provider Pfenning Logistics will be using a Mercedes-Benz eActros battery-electric 25-tonne truck to supply the Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant. In October 2018, Mercedes-Benz Trucks handed over an eActros in Mannheim to concrete producer TBS Transportbeton.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2020

Together with start-up Circulor , Mercedes-Benz is conducting a pilot project for transparency on CO 2 emissions in the cobalt supply chain as part of STARTUP AUTOBAHN. With “Ambition2039”, Mercedes-Benz Cars aims for a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet in less than 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. —Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services Mercedes-Benz Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has signed a supply agreement with Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) ( earlier post ) over approximately 50,000 tonnes almost CO₂-free steel per year for its European press shops and deepened its partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to establish a sustainable steel supply chain in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Mercedes-Benz Trucks celebrated the world premiere of its battery-electric eActros for heavy-duty short-radius distribution—its first series-produced electric truck. For the eActros, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is using a global platform architecture: the ePowertrain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Mercedes-Benz has launched a partnership with the Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB for CO 2 -free steel. The first prototype parts for body shells made of CO 2 -free steel are already being planned for next year. In doing so, Mercedes-Benz is deliberately focusing on avoiding and reducing CO 2 emissions instead of compensation.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Aston Martin will use Mercedes-Benz powertrain tech as part of an expanded agreement between the two automakers announced last week. In an interview with Automotive News published Sunday, Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers explained what this means on the product level: that it will allow the automaker to electrify 20% of its fleet by 2024.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mercedes-Benz Cars has begun production of the first Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles with plug-in hybrid drive ( earlier post ) at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in southern Germany. The production launch of the Mercedes-Benz A-class in two plug-in hybrid models is a strategic milestone as part of our global electric initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Mercedes-Benz Trucks will be presenting the series version of the previous eActros LongHaul on 10 October 2023, with a new design and the new name of eActros 600 as a world premiere. The assembly of all individual components, from frame preparation to the high-voltage tests of these units, is carried out at the Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has delivered an eActros battery-electric 18-tonne truck to international logistics provider Dachser. The eActros is part of the “innovation fleet” from Mercedes-Benz Trucks for practical testing of the heavy-duty electric truck. The eActros is based on the frame of the Mercedes-Benz Actros.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first fully-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro city buses were handed over on 18 November 2019 to ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (ESWE Verkehr) in Wiesbaden. The vehicles are part of a large-scale order for 56 units of the battery-powered city bus which is series-produced in Mannheim, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

Rome-based transport company, Atac, will receive 100 Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid buses. They are part of an ambitious investment program to modernize the bus fleet of the transport company in Italy’s capital. The vehicles are also equipped with GPS surveillance and a telematics system assists fleet management.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2020

Belgian food box provider HelloFresh has received seven Mercedes-Benz eVito refrigerated electric vans with a cooling upfit made by Kerstner. Many customers would like to change their vehicle fleet over to sustainable drive concepts and, especially in urban zones, to operate their routes using battery-electric vans.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

Mercedes-Benz Mobility and BMW Group intend to sell their car-sharing joint venture SHARE NOW to Stellantis. This proposed agreement will add 14 major European cities and 10,000 vehicles to Free2move’s existing car sharing fleet of 2,500 vehicles. —Gero Götzenberger, Director of Strategy and Investments at Mercedes-Benz Mobility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In 2022, Mercedes-Benz’ global portfolio will include eight all-electric Mercedes-EQ models. The global Mercedes-Benz production network is ready for the company’s electric product offensive and is integrating its Mercedes-EQ models into series production in its existing plants.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 4, 2023

Mercedes-AMG C63 S Prices Set in Germany German Automaker’s High-performance Sedan Goes for €115,000; station wagon adds €1,600 (~$125,000 & $1,750); a Year Away from Stateside Arrival This article may contain affiliate links. AMG is Mercedes-Benz’s division for high-performance cars. Are those Mercedes Tuning Parts?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Mercedes-Benz’ EQS—the all-electric member in the new S-Class range—will arrive on the market next year. The EQS is the first to use the new electric architecture for electric vehicles of the luxury and executive segment at Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz will introduce the all-electric architecture in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

As the first customer of the second test phase in Germany, DB Schenker has received a battery-electric eActros from the “innovation fleet”. —Rico Claassen, Fleet Customer Manager at Mercedes-Benz Trucks. The eActros is based on the chassis of the Mercedes-Benz Actros.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Trucks will deliver 10 eActros heavy-duty electric trucks in two variants—two- and three-axle variants with gross vehicle weight of 18 or 25 tonnes—to customers in the next few weeks for testing the everyday feasibility and economic efficiency of the vehicles under real-life conditions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2019

The public transport company ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH from Wiesbaden in Germany’s Hesse region has ordered 56 Mercedes?Benz With this commission, the city of Wiesbaden is switching a fifth of its bus fleet to electromobility within a short period of time. As a provider of comprehensive electromobility solutions, Mercedes?Benz

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Midsize Fastback Luxury Electric Sedan In Mercedes-Benz speak, anything going forward with an EQ on the badge means it is only powered by electricity. The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE, compared to the EQS is smaller, lighter and a bit less powerful, none of which are a bad thing. Too small for a charge port, so what is it? Curious indeed.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2023

On its recently-shared Master Plan Part 3, Tesla teased three new vehicles with its next-generation platform, including a compact car, a commercial/passenger van, and a bus. In Master Plan Part 3, Tesla revealed that the Model 2 will have a 53 kWh battery pack using lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars will build a battery factory at the site in Jawor, Poland, and thus extend its global battery production network to nine factories. The battery factory in Jawor is the second largest investment at this new Mercedes-Benz site. —Frank Deiß, Head of Production Powertrain Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2019

Mercedes-Benz is expanding Vito van range with enhancements including new high-torque four-cylinder diesel engines for the Vito Tourer with passenger car approval. The new Mercedes-Benz Vito Tourer will also see the 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission being used for the first time. The Mercedes-Benz Vito was launched in 1995.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Daimler AG aims to have a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet by 2039, said Ola Källenius, the future Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, and currently still responsible for Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development as a member of the Board of Management. —Ola Källenius. —Ola Källenius. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has handed over a fully electric eActros truck to Murg Valley (Southern Germany)-based logistics company Logistik Schmitt. As part of the eWayBW project, commercial transport will be electric on the B462 federal road around Rastatt with the test operation of catenary trucks as of 2020.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Converting Fleets to EVs and Adding Roadside Assistance. EVs make a lot of sense for commercial fleets with reduced fuel and maintenance costs and batteries that can be sized to a specific route to eliminate range anxiety. Companies making near and long-range plans for their fleets are no longer merely thinking gasoline or diesel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled its Vision URBANETIC mobility concept. Mercedes-Benz Vision URBANETIC cargo module, people move module and chassis. The result is a self-driving fleet, with routes planned flexibly and efficiently on the basis of current transportation needs. A load space 3.70

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is expanding its production capacities for electric cars in Europe. Mercedes-Benz Cars plans to launch more than ten electric cars by 2022 throughout all segments, from smart to large SUVs. Mercedes-Benz Cars plans to launch more than ten electric cars by 2022 throughout all segments, from smart to large SUVs.

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EV Central

JUNE 5, 2024

per cent (in 2024 it’s running closer to 25 per cent) and Mercedes-Benz’s 13.1 It’ll be somewhere around the bottom (of the range in terms of pricing) … you need to get volume to offset your CO2 (fleet average emissions. Last year just 2.8 per cent of the 19,039 cars Audi sold in Australia were powered by electricity.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. Truly CO 2 -neutral transport only works with battery-electric or hydrogen-based drive. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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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. By the end of 2020, Hermes Germany intends to deploy 1,500 Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter electric vans in urban areas across Germany. —Frank Rausch, CEO of Hermes Germany GmbH.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The 2022 Mercedes-Benz S500 4MATIC are these and much more. The front grille sets the tone for the S500 as the flagship vehicle in the Mercedes-Benz line-up. Make sure to visit the Mercedes-Benz dealership in the evening to get the full impact of the touchscreen. Where Luxury and Technology Meet. Traditional. The standard.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2018

Mercedes-Benz is in the process of building out hubs for the production of electric vehicles and batteries around the globe. Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain said that Mercedes-Benz will build its electric vehicles in six plants on three continents. Earlier post.).

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