Mercedes invests EUR 141m to make fully-EV cars in Hungary
German car maker Mercedes-Benz will invest 50 billion forints (EUR 141m) at its plant in Kecskemét, in central Hungary, to add fully electric vehicles to the production palette, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Monday.
The government is supporting the investment, which will “cement the future of more than 4,400 jobs”, with a 15 billion forint grant, Szijjártó told an online press conference at the plant.
The minister called the investment “a milestone” for the Kecskemét plant, as well as for the Hungarian economy and car industry.
“One of the world’s largest car makers with cutting-edge technologies has decided to bring such a significant high-tech investment to Hungary at a time when the global car industry is not exatly about new investments,” Szijjártó said.
This new project has further strengthened Hungarian-German economic cooperation, he added.
Christian Wolff, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary, said that
the production of Mercedes’s EQB brand fully electric vehicles could start in Kecskemét from Q4 in 2021.
The model will have its world premiere next spring, he added.
A new pressing plant, announced in March 2020, will start operation in 2022.
The plant in Kecskemét turned out about 190,000 compact vehicles last year.
As we wrote on July, important announcements were made at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Kecskemét: after the global pandemic, production will resume to normal in August, and for the first time in Hungary, Mercedes has started the production of plug-in hybrid cars. Details HERE.
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Source: MTI
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A production palette???? A palette is a range of colours used by an artist or the tonal ‘colours’ of a musical instrument! Methinks you mean ‘production line’ or ‘range of products’.