In a bid to take on US rival Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, the German automaker has finally unveiled its first fully electric car, the EQC 400 4MATIC.
Daimler’s subsidiary says the EQC will have a range of travelling more than 450kms.
The EQC will start rolling off production lines in Bremen 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz plant.
Mercedes is investing more than €9.0 billion to expand its electric range and more than €1 billion to produce the batteries.
By 2022, Mercedes plans to launch the EQC 400 4MATIC. The new electric SUV is the very first model in a range of ten EQ cars.
With the United Kingdom and France planning to ban combustion engines, and with European cities establishing low emission zones in the cities across Europe, most of the carmakers have been trying to enter the e-vehicle industry.
Up to this point, California based electric car maker Tesla, which is finding it hard to meet the production targets and burning through cash, had very little or no competition.
Right now, Audi and Porsche, German automakers are on track to manufacture the luxury e-vehicles. In Britain, Jaguar is on its way to produce luxury electric vehicles as well.
Earlier this year, after Daimler was found to be fitting its cars with illegal software that covers diesel emissions was ordered by the German government to recall 238,000 vehicles in Germany.
774,000 diesel vehicles of Daimler across all of Europe contains “defeat devices”. The company said that it would recall all of them and said it would refit the software but denied any wrongdoing.
