Mercedes-Benz ups cooperation with Grob

Mercedes-Benz is intensifying its cooperation with Grob in manufacturing technological innovation, expanding output potential and know-how for future-generation batteries.

Mercedes-Benz’s world battery output network will consist of 9 battery factories on 3 continents, underscoring the company’s ambition to grow to be completely electric ahead of the end of the 10 years, in which current market conditions permit.

“The world Mercedes-Benz battery output network is a crucial pillar of the Mercedes-EQ model offensive and the foundation of our strategic change from ‘Electric First’ to ‘Electric Only,’” claimed Mercedes-Benz member of the board and Production and Source Chain management, Jörg Burzer.

“Through our partnership with Grob-Werke, we want to leverage even more opportunity in the space of manufacturing technological innovation in terms of effectiveness, digitisation and sustainability and thus even more extend our battery output potential.”

The concentrate of the cooperation is on the joint enhancement and building of output facilities for the world battery output network and includes the assembly of both battery modules and packs.

Production programs from Grob are already in use in the battery vegetation of Mercedes-Benz. In long term, the associates will operate intently on the enhancement and building of output facilities in the spirit of ‘Design for Production. ‘The cooperation will concentrate on the program technological innovation of long term generations of Mercedes-Benz battery programs to be utilized in Mercedes-EQ cars from 2025.

The batteries for the Mercedes-EQ electric cars will in long term be provided by a world battery output network, with 9 vegetation in seven destinations on 3 continents.

Mercedes-Benz already manufactures battery programs at its destinations in Kamenz (Saxony), Hedelfingen (Stuttgart), as effectively as in Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing (China) and Jawor (Poland).

Employees in Brühl (Stuttgart) and Tuscaloosa (US) are now planning for the start off of output in 2022.

In addition, a battery plant is also to be crafted at the Sindelfingen plant in the vicinity of Stuttgart.