Mercedes will make EV batteries in Alabama
It's part of the facility's $1 billion expansion.
Daimler's Mercedes-Benz facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is getting a $1
billion upgrade, and it includes building a new battery factory for its
future electric vehicles. According to the automaker, the plant will
manufacture batteries for Benz's EQ line of EVs, starting with its first
electric SUV (the EQC) unveiled back in September. Since part of that
billion will go towards the creation of manufacturing plants for the
cars themselves, it only makes sense that Daimler wants to build their
batteries in the same location.
Alabama won't be the only place where Daimler manufactures EQ electric
vehicles and batteries, though. It's building eight production
facilities in various places around the world, along with eight battery
factories. It previously announced Bangkok and Beijing as two of the
other locations where it plans to build a battery plant, and the
automaker already has one in Kamenz, Germany.
Mercedes-Benz board member Markus Schäfer said in a statement during the Alabama plant's groundbreaking ceremony:
"The widely export oriented Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa is a
high-tech production facility with a successful history and an exciting
future in terms of our brand in the United States. We aim to play a
pioneering role in the development of e-mobility and are well prepared
to accomplish this mission. One year ago, we have announced $1 billion
investment in Tuscaloosa mostly for the production of electric SUVs and a
battery plant. We are bringing electric mobility for Mercedes-Benz to
the United States..."
While Daimer's home factory in Sindelfingen, Germany will still be at
the center of its business, it needs to invest in more EV facilities if
it wants to offer electric versions of every single Mercedes car it's
selling by 2022. Seeing as other automakers, such as Volvo, have very
similar goals, it's now a race towards who could get there first and
challenge Tesla in the market.
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