Mercedes-Benz laid out on Wednesday an over 1 billion-euro ($1.06 billion) plan to adapt its world manufacturing community for electrical powertrain methods, together with battery meeting, electrical drive items, and axles, from 2024.
Crops in Kamenz and Untertuerkheim in Germany in addition to Beijing, which already assemble batteries for electrical and hybrid fashions, will assemble batteries for fashions on the upcoming MMA and MB.EA platforms, with one other battery meeting website in Koelleda pending assist from regional authorities.
Untertuerkheim, Beijing and Sebes in Romania will construct electrical drive items for automobiles on the brand new platforms, with Hamburg and Untertuerkheim to stay the lead vegetation for assembling electrical axles and parts.
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“There isn’t a website that isn’t included,” manufacturing chief Joerg Burzer stated on a press name.
Administration and worker representatives reached an settlement in June on shifting European automobile vegetation in the direction of EVs, making Sindelfingen the house for high-end automobiles on the AMG.EA platform, Bremen and Kecskemet in Hungary for core luxurious fashions and Rastatt and Kecskemet for entry-level automobiles.
The carmaker has arrange its automobile vegetation to supply each combustion engine and electrical automobiles on single manufacturing traces, however assembling batteries and motors on the identical line is extra complicated, Burzer stated.
Nonetheless, most of the component-making vegetation will keep it up making components for combustion engine automobiles for so long as there may be demand, because the premium carmaker works in the direction of all-electric gross sales by 2030 “the place market circumstances enable”.
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