Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the first teaser image of the production version of the EQC, its first all-electric vehicle built to be electric from the ground up, and it confirmed that it will unveil the vehicle in full next week.
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Monterey Car Week is bringing us a surprising number of new concept electric vehicles this year.
After Infiniti and Audi, now its Mercedes-Benz’s turn to unveil a new all-electric race car prototype at the industry event.
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Mercedes-Benz is preparing to launch its first all-electric vehicle built to be electric from the ground up, the EQC all-electric SUV. Now we’ve got a look at the all-electric powertrain that the company developed for the vehicle and other upcoming EVs.
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The Mercedes-Benz EQC all-electric SUV is going to be the German automaker’s first all-electric vehicle built to be electric from the ground up.
It’s going to launch its new all-electric EQ sub-brand next year and in the meantime, it’s undergoing a thorough test program as we get a look at an EQC electric prototype making its tires squeal on the Nürburgring race track.
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Daimler is investing heavily in going electric with its heavy vehicles. We have been mainly reporting on their trucks, but now the German automaker’s Daimler Bus division is also going electric with the Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro electric bus.
They unveiled the new vehicle today.
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Logistics companies from around the world are starting to look at electric powertrains for their delivery vehicles in order to reduce costs.
Now Amazon is getting on board with a fleet of all-electric vans from Mercedes-Benz.
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Daimler, through its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy and with partners, is turning a coal power plant into a large energy storage facility using over a thousand modules from its electric car battery packs.
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Over the past few months, Mercedes-Benz has been revealing some information about its all-electric EQC SUV development program.
Today, they are releasing the details of summer testing ahead of the start of production.
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Mercedes-Benz is trying to bring its EQC all-electric SUV to market as soon as next year, but it also has a series of new all-electric vehicles that it plans to bring to market shortly after.
One of those vehicles is the EQA, an all-electric compact car, and Mercedes brought it to Italy last week.
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Mercedes-Benz announced today a new €500 million (~$589 million USD) investment into its Hambach plant in France in order to produce a new ‘compact electric car’ at the factory.
The plant currently manufactures smart cars for Daimler, which are going all-electric, but the new investment is for a new Mercedes-Benz compact EV.
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Over the past few months, Mercedes-Benz has been leaking some information about its all-electric EQC SUV development program.
After a glimpse at its production prototype during winter testing, we now get a look at the latest developments in Mercedes-Benz’s test program for the newest EQC prototypes.
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After unveiling its latest lineup of Sprinter vans with a new electric model earlier this year, Mercedes-Benz released all the details today of its latest addition to its electric lineup.
The eSprinter all-electric van will have a range of up to 150 km (93 miles) and a maximum payload of 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs).
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It’s interesting to see all the different approaches that automakers are taking to secure battery supply for their electric car efforts.
In the latest example, Mercedes-Benz announced today that it is investing 100 million euros (~$120 million USD) in a battery factory in Thailand.
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Mercedes-Benz is getting ready to launch new electric cars under its new EQ subbrand starting with the all-electric ‘EQC’ SUV next year.
Ahead of the launch, Mercedes is unveiling a new generation of its own home charging station: the Wallbox.
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Mercedes-Benz is about to launch its first all-electric vehicle built to be electric from the ground up next year.
The company gave us some glimpses at its development program over the last year and today, they released pictures of all-electric EQC SUV’s production prototype during winter testing.
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China keeps securing electric vehicle investments from foreign automakers and the latest is coming from Daimler.
The German automaker confirms a deal with BAIC to expand local production for the Mercedes-Benz brand, which will include the highly anticipated Mercedes EQ all-electric vehicles.
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Mercedes-Benz unveiled this week its latest lineup of Sprinter vans and it includes an electric version called ‘eSprinter’ to be launched next year.
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It’s not just concept vehicles and press releases anymore. Mercedes-Benz revealed in detail today its plan to build electric vehicles in volume at 6 factories across 3 continents and a “global battery network” to support the effort.
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We recently got a rare look at Mercedes-Benz’s first next-gen electric car, the Concept EQ, but the vehicle is only the concept for the production car, which is going to be called the Mercedes-Benz EQC.
Now, new EQC electric prototypes have been spotted testing ahead of the production launch next year.
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It’s not rare for automakers to buy vehicles from competitors in order to reverse-engineer or benchmark them as part of their R&D effort, but Mercedes-Benz reportedly used a particularly strange and arguably shady way to do it for the Tesla Model X.
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Korean energy company SK Innovation announced today that they will build a gigafactory to manufacture electric car battery cells in Hungary in order to support the electric vehicle plans of European automakers.
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We haven’t had the chance to get a very good look at Mercedes-Benz’s Concept EQ, its first next-gen electric car (its first EV built to be electric from the ground up).
The vehicle serves as the basis for the first Mercedes EQ vehicle, Daimler’s new electric car brand, but the concept hasn’t been around much. Now we get the chance to see it move thanks to a Youtuber.
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Daimler has unveiled a new part of its electrification plan today. Mercedes-Benz will add electric drive to all its commercial vans and it is starting by taking orders for the new eVito all-electric van.
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Almost every automaker working on electric cars is also currently looking at ways to leverage their battery technology development into other products. It started with Tesla’s launch of ‘Tesla Energy’ in 2015 and now BMW, Renault, Nissan, and several others have also launched similar products or even new energy divisions.
Daimler has its ‘Mercedes-Benz Energy’ subsidiary and the company unveils today an impressive new project using its vehicle battery packs for stationary energy storage.
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