The German city of Karlsruhe is setting an example for sustainability in waste management by deploying a fleet of 18 Mercedes-Benz eEconic electric garbage trucks that are helping make the streets cleaner, quieter, and a lot less stinky. Since the end of September, the city of Karlsruhe has been relying on Mercedes’ fully electric waste … Continue reading “Mercedes takes out the trash as German city deploys 18 electric garbage trucks”
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Mercedes-Benz is bringing solid-state batteries to its EVs sooner rather than later. The company’s head of development said the range-boosting batteries will hit the market “before the end of the decade.” The German automaker has partnered with U.S.-based Factorial to develop solid-state batteries that promise up to 25% more range. The elusive solid-state battery is … Continue reading “Mercedes’ Solid-State EV Batteries Are Coming By The Decade's End”
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Mercedes will use the designation “with EQ technology” rather than naming its EVs with separate “EQ” model names, to focus on treating them more like normal models – in what this author considers an overdue move. For many years now, Mercedes has added “EQ” to the model name of its electric models, as in the Mercedes … Continue reading “Mercedes will stop treating EVs as a separate lineup and thats a good thing”
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Mercedes-Benz on Monday announced the start of real-world testing of prototype solid-state battery cells from the U.S. firm Factorial. These cells were installed in a Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan in late 2024, and the car has been used in laboratory tests since then, according to a Mercedes press release. The automaker now claims the EQS is … Continue reading “Mercedes EQS aims for 621-mile range, tests solid-state battery”
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Mercedes-Benz has its eyes on solid-state batteries with its partnership with Factorial for battery cells, but the automaker’s already thinking one step beyond that. In the future, Mercedes envisions mixed battery packs with different types of cells all wired in parallel rather than today’s series arrangement. The enabling factor to this is a new micro-converter … Continue reading “Mercedes tech may enable EV batteries with mixed cell types”
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Mercedes-Benz is developing a solar coating for EVs In ideal conditions it could provide many miles of additional EV range per day Mercedes wouldn’t say how the solar paint would be applied to a car Mercedes-Benz is trying to come up with any and all new ways to increase efficiency, which it believes is the … Continue reading “Mercedes developing solar paint for EVs”
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Mercedes is experimenting with multiple-chemistry battery packs that have more than one type of cell. A new type of micro-converter and hooking up the battery cells in parallel not in series makes this possible. This innovation will improve battery pack performance, modularity and space efficiency. While the details surrounding the impressively efficient new electric CLA … Continue reading “Mercedes Wants EV Battery Packs With Both NMC And LFP Cells”
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The 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA will be available as an EV and hybrid The electric CLA will be able to add 186 miles of range in 10 minutes It may be the first EV to feature both CCS and NACS charge ports Mercedes-Benz still views the future as electric, though the timeline for the transition’s become … Continue reading “2026 Mercedes CLA will get CCS and NACS charge ports, hybrid option”
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Several years in, a partnership between Mercedes-Benz and battery firm Factorial is finally showing progress toward developing viable solid-state battery tech for EVs. Factorial on Tuesday announced that its Solstice solid-state battery cell developed in collaboration with Mercedes could boost EV range by up to 80% through greater energy density. This allows for greater energy … Continue reading “Factorial solid-state tech could boost Mercedes EV range 80%”
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Even though, statistically, electric vehicles are less likely to catch fire than cars with a combustion engine. But when they do go up in flames, they can cause a lot more damage. This Mercedes-Benz EQE started showing white smoke and went ablaze seconds later in an underground parking lot in an apartment complex in the … Continue reading “Mercedes EQE's Catastrophic Fire In Underground Garage: What We Know”