During the 2022 CES Consumer Electronics Show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled the EQXX Concept car, which is equipped with a battery capacity of less than 100kWh, but has a cruising range of 1,000 kilometers, which is the physical result of Mercedes-Benz sharing its power technology development strength; a few days ago, Mercedes-Benz revealed that it is expected that from 2024 onwards, Mercedes-Benz will change the powertrain to the results of its own design and development.
Mercedes-Benz from the first mass-produced pure tram Mercedes-Benz EQC came out, to the Mercedes-EQ EQS published in 2021, the setting of product content and technology equipment can be said to be more and more complete, but also shows the Daimler Group's attempt to transform into electric energy, after all, electric energy is not only the inevitable trend of the future market, to maintain the leading position of luxury brands must actively seize the market, but also one of the popular guarantees of today's stock market profits, and Mercedes-Benz's pace of promoting pure electric combat strength is also faster.
According to foreign media reports, Mercedes-Benz's next-generation electric vehicle chassis MMA and MB. EA, will be equipped with a power unit built by Mercedes-Benz, which is expected to be implemented from 2024; the difference is that Mercedes-Benz has a strategy of quickly grabbing the market and then observing the market trend, so the original power units are taken from other suppliers, such as the EQC power unit is derived from the German ZF Group, and the EQS power unit is provided by Valeo-Siemens, a member of Siemens Group.
Markus Schaefer, head of the R&D department of daimler Group, said in an interview with foreign media: "We hope to control all the systems, including batteries, electric motors, power control units, etc., just like the development and production of fuel vehicles, until now, the power system of electric vehicles still relies on external partner manufacturers."
Such a statement is not surprising, after all, the Daimler Group has been actively building its own battery production base, the group subsidiary Accumotive shoulders the heavy responsibility of the development of the battery business, the group has also cooperated with all parties to form alliances, the purpose is to hope to be able to obtain a certain advantage in one of the key components of electric vehicles battery. With the powertrain's own development and construction plan, it should also mean that the follow-up pure tram model can show the charm of the triangular star factory emblem, and the Daimler Group is bound to expand the production base, in addition to investing more funds, it can also increase local employment opportunities, and should also increase the market value of the company's stock price.