Daimler speeds up strategies to be electrical-only automaker

Mercedes-Benz operator Daimler is stepping up the speed of its changeover to electric mobility and programs to largely eliminate internal combustion engines in advance of the close of the decade.

“We are switching from EV to start with to EV only,” a high ranking executive familiar with the prepare instructed Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe.

This means that every single product series will have a complete-electrical variation, while production, revenue and constructions will be switched to a organization without having diesel and gasoline engines.

Plug-in hybrids could also cease to engage in a role soon after 2030, Automobilwoche described.

However, there will initially be no company date for dropping combustion motor autos for the reason that they will be in demand just after 2030 in some markets, based on the charging infrastructure, Automobilwoche claimed.

Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius strategies to current aspects of the system at a approach working day on July 22, resources explained to Automobilwoche.

The automaker is anticipated to announce programs to introduce new platforms for supplemental electric powered styles as properly as its own software working technique in 2024.

Beforehand, Daimler had claimed it only envisioned plug-in hybrids or purely electric automobiles to account for a lot more than 50 per cent of passenger vehicle profits by the stop of the decade.

Daimler declined to remark when contacted by Automotive News Europe.

The go to all-electrical would set Mercedes on a par with other automakers that are shifting to electric powered-only sales, especially in Europe the place tougher CO2 emissions limits are predicted to make combustion engine automobiles unviable.

Opel CEO Michael Lohscheller claimed in the course of parent Stellantis’s electrification method update on Thursday that the automaker will grow to be a pure electric powered brand name in Europe by 2028.

Audi mentioned final month that it will phase out output of combustion engines by early future decade other than in China.

The Jaguar manufacturer has mentioned will grow to be all-electrical setting up in 2025. Volvo and Bentley have said they expect to be electric powered-only brand names by 2030. Ford has claimed it will only offer full-electric cars and trucks in Europe by 2030.

BMW has a extra careful technique. It states it expects 50 % of its gross sales to be comprehensive-electric powered products by 2030.

Volkswagen model options to cease selling combustion engines autos in Europe by 2035 as it shifts to total-electric powered vehicles, but afterwards in the U.S. and China.