At Mercedes, customers are lining up again. The demand is so great that unwanted side effects are inevitable. The pressure to act increases.
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche
Wednesday, 29.03.2017
14:24
The recently disclosed investigations of the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor’s Office on suspicion of exhaust gas manipulation at diesel cars Daimler drivers do not seem to abstain from the purchase. The company expects for the months of January to March, the highest ever achieved in a quarter sales, said the car maker in the run-up to the Annual General Meeting. The figures for March are not yet available – in the first two months of the year managed Daimler but a sales increase of 15.6 percent.
Daimler’s Chief Development Officer Ola Källenius had told journalists the day before that one sees in the sales figures so far no change in the diesel ratio. To achieve the 2020 CO2 targets, the diesel is a “very, very, very important part”, he stressed.
In this field, the Stuttgart have a problem anyway. Because the strong demand for gas-chilling larger SUVs Last year, the fleet value for CO2 emissions stagnated. For the first time since the resolution of the climate protection goals in the European Union in 2007, it failed to lower the value compared to the previous year.
That should also be one of the reasons why Daimler 
pushing the pace in the development of its electric brand EQ: 2019 should come the first vehicles. Already by 2022, the manufacturer is now planning ten new ones electric models, Because by 2025, the proportion of electric cars should be 15 to 25 percent. “We have to significantly reduce costs (…) in the next few years,” said Källenius. So far, the high price for e-cars as well as the lack of coverage has been considered as a drag on the breakthrough of Stromern.