Focus on automotive: Mercedes-Benz
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16/12/2019Mercedes-Benz will delay the U.S. launch of its first EV, a compact crossover EQC, by at least a year. The U.S. debut of the EQC has been pushed back to 2021. It was expected to arrive at U.S. dealerships in the first quarter of next year. Mercedes blamed the stateside delay on strong demand for the EQC in Europe. In a recent direction from... -
14/12/2019On 12 December 2019, the Mercedes-Benz Düsseldorf plant celebrated the start of production of the Mercedes-Benz eSprinter with an event for employees and invited guests. The Stuttgart-based manufacturer has been building its globally successful vans in Düsseldorf since 1962. Ever since, the plant has continually developed to become in recent... -
14/12/2019The Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim (Germany) plant will become the production site for the electric powertrain (eATS) in the global Mercedes-Benz Cars powertrain production network. The management and the works council have agreed on a package of measures. This includes defined production ranges of the eATS as well as measures to increase the... -
06/12/2019The Mercedes-Benz plant in Bangkok in Thailand has started local production for Mercedes-Benz Plug-in hybrid-batteries. The new battery factory, the third production facility in the Country, was built on a 50,000 mq site located at the vehicle manufacturing plant in the Bangkok region which has been expanded. Together with the local partners... -
04/12/2019Daimler is testing autonomous taxis in the U.S. despite new Ceo Ola Källenius saying that the automaker will "rightsize" its spending level on self-driving technologies. Daimler's autonomous-driving technology will more likely be apply to commercial vehicles for freight companies on long haul routes than taxis, Källenius told journalists at the... -
29/11/2019The “Enjoy Electric.” advertising campaign for the market launch of the Mercedes-Benz EQC started today. The campaing is available with various moving image formats and a major print and online communication initiative. The teaser phase leads to the launch of the campaign, where the EQC Webspecial with campaign content will go live on mercedes-... -
28/11/2019As the country’s largest luxury car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz looks back on a 25 year long history in India with a local assembly site and its local entity Mercedes-Benz India. In 1994, Mercedes-Benz Cars started assembling cars locally. Back then, the production site was located in the Tata Motors (Telco) premises. In 2009, Mercedes-Benz India...