Mercedes-Benz will offer electric versions of all its cars from 2022

Car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has said through CEO Dieter Zetsche that the company will offer a variant with an electric motor from 2022 of all car models. This concerns fully electrically powered cars and hybrids.

By 2022, the manufacturer should have launched about fifty different electric models. Smart cars, owned by Mercedes-Benz, will no longer be equipped with combustion engines from 2020 and will only be sold as electric cars.

According to Reuters, the chairman of the board said on an investor day that the company wants to save about four billion euros until 2025, because the margin on the sale of electric cars, partly due to the built-in batteries, is lower than that of regular cars with a combustion engine. Zetsche states that this will be the case especially in the initial period.

While Smart branded cars are transitioning entirely to electric motors, this doesn’t seem to be the case with the rest of the Mercedes Benz range just yet. Although an electric variant of each model will be offered from 2022, it seems that models with combustion engines will also still be sold.

Volvo has previously indicated that it will completely switch to cars with an electric motor. Every car from the Swedish manufacturer to be launched from 2019 on the market will either be fully electrically powered or a so-called plug-in hybrid model. Jaguar Land Rover will do the same as Volvo from 2020 onwards.