Mercedes-Benz: After 2025, some plants to be converted to only build EVs

Mercedes-Benz anticipates a few of its existing vehicle fabricating plants to be retooled to create as it were completely electric vehicles by the moment half of this decade, but it'll not be investing cash to construct modern, EV-only plants.

"Building a entire unused battery-electric vehicle manufacturing plant takes time. We have taken another approach,” said generation chief Joerg Burzer in an meet with Reuters.

"We will certainly have a few lines creating only electric vehicles within the following few a long time ... we too see whole production lines exchanging to electric -- that's a point for the moment half of the decade."

As of December 2021, EVs contribute about 4.1 percent (over 99,000 units, including EQV and Smart EV) of Mercedes-Benz’s global sales, slightly lower than the BMW Group’s 4.3 percent or 101,006 units (excluding Motorrad, note that BMW Group’s report for total BMW vehicles includes bikes).

Mercedes-Benz plans to become an EV-only company by 2030, but only in countries where market conditions allow.

The company is not setting a deadline for ending production of internal combustion engines, but its push towards an ‘Electric First’ strategy imply that development of combustion engines will soon stop, although it might still continue selling existing combustion engine models in certain parts of the world.

Current Mercedes-Benz EV models are built on 3 stages, - MFA II, MRA, and EVA. As it were the last mentioned is committed to EVs.

After 2025, all unused Mercedes-Benz vehicle stages will be electric-only, totaling 4 – MB.EA, AMG.EA, VAN.EA, and MMA.