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Enlarge (credit: Michiel Dijcks) On Tuesday evening, Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler released a statement saying that it would voluntarily recall three million Mercedes-Benz diesels in the EU to offer a software update that would improve emissions control system performance. The recall will cost the company about €220 million ($ 254 million). Mercedes-Benz was already in the […]
FRANKFURT, Germany – Daimler said on Thursday it had struck a deal with workers to make electric car components and batteries at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Untertuerkheim, near Stuttgart, in addition to combustion engines, transmissions, and axles. Untertuerkheim is operating at full capacity. But the 19,000 workers at the plant demanded assurances that jobs would […]
BERLIN – German carmaker Daimler has been accused of selling over a million cars with excessive emissions in Europe and the United States, Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Wednesday, citing a search warrant issued by a Stuttgart court. Two months ago, Stuttgart prosecutors searched Daimler sites in Germany following allegations of false advertising and the […]
FRANKFURT – Germany’s Daimler and its Chinese joint venture partner BAIC Motor Corporation have agreed to jointly invest 5 billion yuan ($ 735 million) in battery electric vehicle production in China by 2020 and to provide the infrastructure needed. Of that investment, a three-digit million euro sum is to be invested in a new battery […]
BERLIN/FRANKFURT – Daimler and its Chinese joint venture partner BAIC Motor Corporation agreed to upgrade the Mercedes-Benz factory in Beijing to make electric cars, the German carmaker said on Thursday. At a signing ceremony in Berlin attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Daimler signed a framework agreement to upgrade production […]
FRANKFURT – German prosecutors investigating whether carmaker Daimler manipulated emission tests on its diesel cars are looking at whether auto components supplier Bosch was involved in the alleged fraud, it was confirmed on Friday. “There is an investigation into aiding and abetting fraud,” a spokesman for the Stuttgart prosecutor said about Bosch, following a media […]
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler is incredibly bullish about electric vehicles. So much so that it’s recently broken ground on another battery plant in Germany, a stone’s throw from its existing facility. It’ll begin operating around June next year and sounds positively massive. “The new plant will quadruple the production and logistics area in Kamenz to a […]
Enlarge / Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel in a conversation with Dieter Zetsche (Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars) and others. (credit: Daimler) On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the site of a future lithium-ion battery factory in the eastern German town of Kamenz. The factory […]
Daimler subsidiary Accumotive has broken ground on its second lithium-ion battery factory in Kamenz, Germany. The facility represents an investment of about €500 million (about $ 560 million at today’s exchange rates), and will support Mercedes-Benz’s plans to introduce its EQ e-mobility sub-brand, introduce 10 new plug-in models by 2022, and continue to hybridize more […]
WASHINGTON – German automaker Daimler AG said on Tuesday it had dropped plans to seek U.S. approval to sell 2017 Mercedes-Benz US diesel models, but had not decided whether to exit the American passenger diesel market. “We constantly review our portfolio offerings and make adjustments to meet immediate customer need,” Mercedes-Benz USA spokesman Rob Moran […]
