Microcar subsidiary reports delivery bottlenecks: Daimler misjudges again the E-Smart

01/23/2018

Micro-car subsidiary reports supply bottlenecks Daimler again misjudges the E-Smart

Daimler

Electric Smart

Should the Daimler management cry or cheer about this news? Delivery bottlenecks in the electric smart mean that customers have to wait for up to a year for their new vehicle, reports the “Automobilwoche”,

“The increase in demand is developing much more quickly and even faster than we could expect and plan with our suppliers,” said Smart boss Annette Winkler the trade magazine. The company has already sold more copies of the current model than its predecessors in 2013 and 2014 combined. In Germany The authorities allowed Smarts in December 1152 – and more of an e-car model than ever before.

However, in view of the delivery bottlenecks it is also clear that the Stuttgart carmaker Show stock market chart again with the demand for the microcar in its battery version has misjudged. This time has Daimler apparently too low poker, while the expectations of the previous model were set too high.

Daimler founded the end of 2014 Off for the battery cell production in Kamenz in Saxony, among other things, with low demand for the batteries that were used in advance in the smart. Afterwards, there was almost no electric smart to buy for more than a year, because the manufacturer had to reorganize the battery cover and changed the model.

However, electrification is of paramount importance to Smart. From 2020 or 2021 it should be the cars only with battery drive to buy,

Background: As a gasoline engine swallows the relatively large amount of fuel. From 2021, however, the models of the automakers may emit an average of only 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer. The Smart, the Daimler balance sheet press down significantly comes as a gasoline engine, however, to at least 93 grams. electric cars On the other hand, legislators expect CO2 emissions to be zero in order to promote technology.

In addition, the shortage of supply for Daimler is annoying, because the brand Smart is rather weak overall. In the past year, sales fell by almost 7 percent to 135,000. However, less help is expected from the E-Smart this year than would be possible.

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