Ola Kallenius has referred to as for a rest of CO2 emission guidelines for 2025 as a result of buyer preferences can’t be ignored and the electrical automotive market is shrinking.
Ola Kallenius, Mercedes CEO, stated Mercedes “can not ignore buyer preferences” and that this has led to a drop in demand for electrical vehicles. Kallenius helps the place of the European Vehicle Producers’ Affiliation (ACEA) and says the 2025 emissions targets set by politicians in Brussels are unachievable.
ACEA petitioned the European Fee on September 15 to revise emission limits in response to the shrinking marketplace for electrical vehicles. At present, emission guidelines on the fleet of autos offered set a restrict of 95 g/km CO2 in 2025, down from 106.6 g/km CO2 in 2023. Below these situations, producers have solely two choices: both cease manufacturing of some 2 million vehicles with typical engines or pay fines totaling €13bn.
Ola Kallenius’ assertion comes as gross sales of Mercedes-Benz electrical fashions have plummeted.Within the first quarter of 2024, Mercedes offered solely 47,500 electrical fashions (-8%), and within the second quarter of 2024, 45,800 models (-19%). Thus, within the first half of 2024, Mercedes offered 93,300 electrical fashions out of a complete of 959,700 models, that means that the share of electrical vehicles in whole gross sales has fallen under 10%.
Subsequently, the plan to promote 50% of manufacturing electrical and PHEV fashions by 2025 is completely unrealistic. By the way, Mercedes has additionally revised its platform coverage and dropped the highest model of the MB.EA platform referred to as MB.EA Giant.
Below these circumstances, the successor to the Mercedes EQS shall be constructed on a revised and upgraded EVA II platform with 800V know-how, and a few sources have introduced that the Mercedes EQE is not going to have a successor.
Mercedes is now specializing in the MB.EA Medium platform with 800V know-how, an eATS 2.0 drive system from the EQXX idea, a silicon carbide inverter to cut back losses when switching from DC to AC, and a 2-speed gearbox on the rear engine. This platform shall be used for the brand new Mercedes C-Class EV and GLC EV fashions.
By the top of this yr, Mercedes can even launch the brand new Mercedes CLA EV primarily based on the MMA multidrive platform.
Mercedes hopes to extend gross sales of electrical fashions with the brand new CLA EV, C-Class EV, and GLC EV. The truth that Mercedes initially centered on the EQE/EQS/EQE SUV and EQS SUV luxurious electrical fashions was a mistake. Equally as huge a mistake was the truth that Mercedes constructed these fashions specializing in providing conventional Mercedes luxurious on the expense of extra superior electrical know-how. The EVA II platform affords a lot much less charging energy than Tesla fashions.