Mercedes-Benz boosts new energy market by investing 800 million to expand battery capacity

The new energy market has become an important direction for the current automobile development. Mercedes-Benz, as a globally-renowned luxury manufacturer, promotes the dissemination of the concept of environmental protection is also the social responsibility of the brand. Recently, China Netcom learned from world-renowned media Worldcarfans that the Daimler Group will invest 100 million euros (nearly 800 million yuan) in the production capacity of its key components factories, including batteries, and will include C-level hybrids in the future. A variety of new energy products including E-level mixing. Thomas Weber, head of Mercedes-Benz R&D for the future of the market, said: “I am optimistic about the next few years and new energy technologies will grow at least faster than we see today.”

Mercedes-Benz to invest 800 million yuan to add new energy projects

At present, Mercedes-Benz has released a number of new energy products, including fuel cells, pure electric and plug-in hybrids in a variety of different areas. According to its related plans, future energy products will be dominated by plug-in hybrids. For this, Weber said: We also believe that the development of electric vehicles based on fuel cells will also become part of the macro picture, while plug-in hybrids of large vehicles. Version share will achieve growth.

In the future will push a variety of new energy vehicles

The S500 plug-in hybrid vehicle built by Mercedes-Benz based on S-Class models has officially debuted and is expected to be introduced into the domestic market next year. In addition, it will also cover Mercedes-Benz in new energy products that are expected to be put into mass production in the future. It includes a wide range of products including C-Class, E-Class and SUV models, and smart will also introduce pure electric vehicles.

In addition, since Mercedes-Benz officially announced a new naming system, all of its cars will be composed of 1-3 capital letters, and will surround the current A, B, C, E and S levels in the sedan product sequence. While retaining the original naming to a certain extent, different grades of products are embodied in the form of letter combinations. Due to the adoption of a special power system, the new energy model also has a special suffix designation. The “e” is added to the plug-in hybrid and pure electric models, and the “h” is added to the HYBRID hybrid models.