FRANKFURT—Mercedes-Benz laid the foundation stone for a sustainable battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, southern Germany on Friday. The pilot plant will have an annual capacity of 2500 tonnes and will contribute to the production of more than 50,000 battery modules for new electric Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Recycled batteries will come from test vehicles and start-up batteries….

BERLIN—Mercedes-Benz delivered 2.05 million passenger cars in 2022, the company said on Tuesday, down 1 percent on the previous year as the carmaker felt the impact of COVID-19 measures and bottlenecks. Still, fourth-quarter sales rose 17 percent as logistics and supply chain bottlenecks eased, and battery-electric sales grew 124 percent over the course of the…

While there are many great examples of sedans, we only have room for five this time around. The prices shown reflect the MSRP of base models. (Courtesy of Volkswagen) Bug Zapper VW Jetta $20,655 While the iconic VW Bug could accommodate a driver and three passengers, the Jetta does it so much better. Beneath the…

The German luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz unveils its latest inventions, including an “Avatar: Way of Water”-inspired futurist car at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show at 2:45 p.m. ET on Jan 5. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …

The German luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz unveils its latest inventions, including an “Avatar: Way of Water”-inspired futurist car at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show at 2:45 p.m. ET on Jan 5. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …

BERLIN—Bosch, and Mercedes-Benz have received approval for a fully automated self-parking software which enables cars to drive themselves into a pre-booked parking spot at a Stuttgart Airport parking lot and back out again, Bosch said on Wednesday. The software relies on communication with sensors in the parking location to detect obstacles in its path, and…

Mercedes-Benz announced that it was pulling out of Russia and would sell all of its shares in its local subsidiaries to a little known Russian investor. The German automaker is the latest foreign car manufacturer to abandon the Russian market, after it suspended its local operations in early March, after the invasion of Ukraine. It was…

The C 300 is powered by a 2.0L turbocharged inline-four engine partnered with mild-hybrid drive system to deliver 255 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque. This is a torque increase of 22 lb-ft compared to its predecessor. The heart of the engine electrification is the Integrated Starter-Generator energized by a 48-volt lithium-ion battery. It powers…

MADRID—German automaker Mercedes-Benz plans to invest 1.2 billion euros in its Vitoria plant in northern Spain after workers backed a new labor agreement, unions UGT and CCOO said on Tuesday. About 57 percent of the plant’s nearly 5,000 workers voted in favor of a deal that defines working conditions and pay raises until 2026, allowing…

BERLIN—Mercedes-Benz is recalling almost a million older cars from around the world due to possible problems with the brake booster, the company said on Saturday. Models of the ML, GL (BR 164) and R-Class (BR 251) series produced between 2004 and 2015 are affected, it said. Some 70,000 of them are in Germany. “We have…