Mercedes-Benz wants to offer an electric variant for every fuel car from 2025

All new ‘vehicle architectures’ that Mercedes-Benz will release from 2025 will be fully electric. At least that is the plan of the German car manufacturer. Customers should then be able to choose electric variants of every model that Mercedes-Benz makes.

In 2025, Mercedes-Benz will introduce three platforms on which it will base fully electric vehicles. The company will continue to produce existing cars with a fuel engine, but will drop out the announced schedule but customers must be able to opt for an electric variant from 2025 for every fuel car.

The company is gearing up to be ‘all-electric’ by the end of the decade, which means that production of fuel models should also be over by then. Incidentally, the company is still quite cautious; it speaks of a move to all-electric “where market conditions allow.”

The three electric platforms that will appear in 2025 are MB.EA, AMG.EA and VAN.EA. MB.EA is for medium to large passenger cars. In the words of Mercedes, this should become a scalable and modular backbone for future electric vehicles. The AMG.EA platform is for the segment of customers focused on performance and VAN.EA, as the name implies, is for electric vans and light commercial vehicles.

As early as next year, Mercedes-Benz wants to have a fully electric vehicle in all segments in which it operates. According to the manufacturer, the electrification of transport is accelerating and the company itself is prepared to invest more than 40 billion euros in this between 2022 and 2030. The company wants to use this money to build eight additional factories for the production of batteries, among other things. in addition to the nine factories it already planned. The expansion should provide a capacity of more than 200 gigawatt hours.

A large number of car manufacturers have announced plans to produce only electric cars in the near future. As a result, technology, software, chips and connectivity are playing an increasingly important role for the automotive sector.