FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz is making China, the world’s high auto market, central to its subsequent electrical automobile (EV) marketing campaign beginning in 2025, its CEO informed German journal Automobilwoche.
“To do that, we should grasp electrical propulsion simply as completely as digitalisation. That is what our clients count on,” Ola Kaellenius was quoted as saying.
From 2025, all of Mercedes-Benz’s new automobile platforms will solely make EVs below a technique the German luxurious automaker outlined in 2021.
A senior government informed Automobilwoche the fashions the corporate plans to launch in China primarily based on the upcoming MB.EA platform had been being reviewed to make sure they higher meet the wants of native clients, singling out area and digital content material.
China stays probably the most related marketplace for Germany’s automakers, however native manufacturers are in management with an 81% share of the Chinese language EV market in 2022, Counterpoint Analysis discovered.
China additionally has a big stake in Mercedes-Benz, whose high two shareholders are Beijing Automotive Group Co Ltd and Geely Chairman Li Shufu.
On the identical time, Berlin is attempting to scale back its publicity to China’s economic system as a part of efforts to derisk the German economic system which have intensified since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine uncovered German dependence on a single dominant gasoline provider.
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz; enhancing by Barbara Lewis)
