CEO on e-course
With concept cars like the EQ, Daimler has already demonstrated how it envisions the electric future. CEO Zetsche seems satisfied.
Daimler builds the first compact model his new electric car brand EQ in the smart plant in Hambach, France, and is investing around 500 million euros. “We are continuing our electric offensive with the compact EQ model from Hambach,” explained DaimlerCEO Dieter Zetsche on Friday after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
This will be the core brand Mercedes for the first time in its more than 100-year history in France to produce. The plant south of Saarbrücken is to be extended by new halls. The compact electric car is then produced in addition to the Smart, which will be built from 2020 only electric and not with gasoline engine.
By 2022, Mercedes-Benz Cars plans to launch more than ten electric cars on the market and offer electrified variants in every series, for example hybrid drives. The Swabians want to comply with stricter climate protection targets for carbon dioxide (CO2) worldwide. The investment amount so far amounts to ten billion euros for the expansion of the electric fleet and another billion euros for battery production.
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Head of production Markus Schäfer explained that with Hambach the number of electric car locations is increasing to six: The first Mercedes electric car EQC will be produced at the Bremen plant from 2019 and shortly afterwards in Beijing. The Mercedes plants Rastatt and Sindelfingen in Germany as well as Tuscaloosa in the USA are also to manufacture electric cars.
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Daimler gave no information on the future number of jobs in Hambach. So far there are more than 800 employees working there. Year-to-date production fell to 100,000 from 80,000 last year, as demand for smart models, which are already several years old, is gradually declining.
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