{"id":13061,"date":"2021-07-29T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:53:40","slug":"mercedes-benz-prepares-to-go-all-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=13061","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz prepares to go all-electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13062\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13062\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mercedes-Benz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mercedes-Benz.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mercedes-Benz-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mercedes-Benz-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mercedes-Benz-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Mercedes-Benz-431x200.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: courtesy Mercedes-Benz\/Newspress USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz is getting ready to go all electric by the end of the decade, where market conditions allow.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting from electric-first to electric-only, the company is accelerating toward an emissions-free and software-driven future.<\/p>\n<p>By 2022, Mercedes-Benz will have battery electric vehicles (BEV) in all segments the company serves.<\/p>\n<p>From 2025 onwards, all newly launched vehicle architectures will be electric-only and customers will be able to choose an all-electric alternative for every model the company makes.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as 2022, eight Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles will be produced at seven locations on three continents. Furthermore, all passenger car and battery assembly sites run by Mercedes-Benz AG will switch to carbon neutral production by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EV shift is picking up speed\u2014especially in the luxury segment, where Mercedes-Benz belongs. The tipping point is getting closer and we will be ready as markets switch to electric-only by the end of this decade,&#8221; said Ola K\u00e4llenius, CEO of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also working on setting new standards in charging: &#8220;Plug &amp; Charge&#8221; will allow customers to plug-in, charge and unplug without extra steps needed for authentication and payment processing. Plug &amp; Charge will go live with the market launch of the EQS later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes me Charge is already one of the world&#8217;s largest charging networks and currently comprises more than 530,000 AC and DC charging points worldwide. Furthermore, Mercedes-Benz is working with Shell on expanding the charging network. Customers will get enhanced access to Shell&#8217;s Recharge network consisting of more than 30,000 charge points by 2025 in North America, Europe, and China\u2014including more than 10,000 high-power chargers globally.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz is also developing the Vision EQXX, an electric car with a real world range of more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), targeting a single-digit figure for Kwh per 100 kilometers (over 6 miles per Kwh) at normal highway driving speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz is getting ready to go all electric by the end of the decade, where market conditions allow. Shifting from electric-first to electric-only, the company is accelerating toward an emissions-free and software-driven future. By 2022, Mercedes-Benz will have battery electric vehicles (BEV) in all segments the company serves. From 2025 onwards, all newly launched vehicle<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=13061\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-13061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mercedes-benz","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13065,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions\/13065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}