As anticipated, Mercedes gave up the partnership with Renault-Nissan in favor of Geely, the principle goal being cooperation for a brand new era of 4-cylinder engines for use sooner or later by Mercedes, Geely and Volvo.
Though it was anticipated that Mercedes would hand over the partnership with Renault-Nissan, that is nonetheless stunning.
Geely is presently Daimler’s largest shareholder, with a $ 9 billion funding in Daimler (9,69% of shares)
Then, Geely shaped a 50/50% three way partnership with Daimler for the additional growth of the sensible model, whose manufacturing will happen solely in China.
Then again, the partnership with Renault-Nissan has had extra failures than successes.
– Mercedes X-Class primarily based on Nissan Navara foundation was taken out of manufacturing after solely two years as a result of poor gross sales.
– The Mercedes Citan constructed on the Renault Kangoo foundation was a failure particularly on the Euro NCAP check.
– The event of the sensible fortwo / forfour along with Renault Twingo didn’t result in the profitability of the sensible model that ended up being moved to China.
– The small-displacement engines taken over from Renault and tailored by Mercedes didn’t rise to Mercedes requirements, at the very least in case of 1.5 dCi diesel.
As an alternative, the 1.33-liter turbo gasoline engine was fairly effectively obtained within the compact class, being virtually the one notable achievement of the partnership between the 2 carmakers from Mercedes viewpoint.
However now this partnership is historical past. Let’s see what’s going to carry the long run cooperation with Geely.
In comparison with the partnership with Renault-Nissan by which Mercedes solely tailored the Renault engines to its necessities, within the case of the partnership with Geely, Mercedes will deal straight and solely with the event of the brand new era of in-line 4-cylinder engines. Which means Mercedes will be capable to provide small displacements engines to its requirements with none compromise.
Mercedes presently has practically 20 variations of inner combustion engines from the compact class to the Sprinter. Markus Schafer, the brand new head of Mercedes-Benz vehicles from April 1, 2020, declared in an interview in auto motor und sport journal: “We have to scale back this selection and mix our engineering expertise with the probabilities of a companion who can create added worth in China whereas bringing in further volumes from manufacturers Geely and Volvo.
To this finish, Geely has constructed a state-of-the-art engine plant in China, and Mercedes guarantees a sequence of improvements in order that this new era of engines will function more often than not with a lambda stoichiometric ratio of 1.
Mercedes gave up the partnership with Renault-Nissan and a brand new period will begin with tyhe new companion Geely.