New Delhi: Mercedes-Benz has began producing batteries for its all-electric luxurious sedan EQS on the Stuttgart-Hedelfingen plant in Germany, forward of its world premiere on April 15, 2021.
EQS marks the beginning of a brand new era of high-performance electrical autos and can provide a spread of greater than 700 km (based mostly on WLTP), the corporate stated in an announcement.
A wide range of elements together with as much as 12 cell modules and the so-called EE-compartment for the clever integration of energy electronics make up the EQS battery system. The EE-compartment is assembled by the Mercedes-Benz Berlin web site.
The EQS will probably be geared up with battery layouts enabling completely different vary and efficiency variants. With an put in vitality content material of as much as 108 kWh, the EQS targets, in response to WLTP a spread of greater than 700 km.
The in-house-developed software program technologically allows updates over the air (OTA), making certain that the vitality administration of the EQS will stay up-to-date over your entire lifetime of the car. Apart from its CO2-neutrally produced cells, the EQS battery cell chemistry consists of nickel, cobalt and manganese in a ratio of 8: 1: 1, chopping the cobalt content material to round ten p.c.
“Our subsequent all-electric mannequin – the luxurious sedan EQS – constructed on a devoted electrical platform is already within the beginning blocks. The beginning of manufacturing of its high-performance battery techniques in our plant in Stuttgart-Hedelfingen is, due to this fact, an essential milestone”, Markus Schäfer, member of the board of administration of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, answerable for Daimler Group Analysis and Mercedes-Benz Vehicles COO, stated.
“As a part of the transformation of our firm and our merchandise, we’re considerably increasing our battery competencies throughout your entire worth chain. Thereby we proceed to make efforts to assist the following era of batteries obtain a breakthrough even sooner,” he added.
EQS is produced alongside the brand new S-Class at Manufacturing facility 56 within the Sindelfingen plant, which operates CO2-neutrally from the start. As early as 2022, the corporate’s personal Mercedes-Benz passenger automobile and van crops worldwide together with the Hedelfingen plant will function CO2-neutrally, the corporate assertion stated.
Growth of in-house EV experience specializing in battery cells
With a view to deepen its competence as a centre for battery know-how, a brand new manufacturing facility for the small-series manufacturing of future lithium-ion battery cells is being deliberate, beginning its operations in 2023.
The corporate stated the sustainability issue, clear cell growth by means of to recyclability, performs a significant position on this. Mercedes-Benz plans to speculate a three-digit million quantity within the transformation of the positioning.
The German auto big additional added that it’s strengthening its experience within the discipline of e-mobility. Analysis and growth actions such because the e-technology heart and cell know-how heart, the place, amongst different issues, prototypes for the electrical drive system are constructed and cell applied sciences are researched and examined on the Untertürkheim web site (Germany).
