Mercedes-Benz
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV adds practicality to big-time electric luxury
When it comes to the calm, cosseting feeling of luxury, it’s hard to imagine any better powertrain than something electric. And, when it comes to electric luxury, Mercedes-Benz is on a roll. The
US lidar maker Luminar wants to light up China’s smart vehicles
Luminar, the Nasdaq-listed lidar maker from Florida, is making a push into China as the world’s largest auto market races to put automated and autonomous driving vehicles on the road. By 2028, m
Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range and luxury
I can’t get over the huge faux grill. Mercedes today revealed the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, an electric SUV built on its excellent EQS SUV. In this edition buyers get ultra-luxury appointments,
EV SPACs struggle, Mercedes shows its OS hand and Cruise passes the 1 million-mile mark
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TikTok is coming to cars, starting with Mercedes-Benz
TikTok, the social media app, is everywhere it seems. It’s even making its way into vehicles, starting with the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class that’s coming to market in fall 2023. The Mercedes
Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles
Mercedes-Benz and Google have struck a long-term partnership designed to give the German automaker control over its IP and marketplace while offering drivers navigation, maps and YouTube provided by t
Mercedes adding Luminar lidar to more vehicles in multibillion-dollar deal
Mercedes-Benz has agreed to a “multibillion-dollar” deal with Luminar to integrate lidar technology and software into the German automaker’s next-generation of vehicles set to go int
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE is EV perfection in a humdrum shell
The all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQS is among the most sublime cars on the road right now, an understated exterior wrapped around a sumptuous interior, featuring all the niceties you’d expect from
Mercedes-Benz is bringing its new, all-electric eSprinter van to North America this year
Mercedes-Benz said Tuesday that its long-anticipated and updated battery-electric eSprinter is finally coming to North America, with production set to begin in the second half of 2023 at its factory i
Mercedes-Benz plots ‘global’ EV charging network with 10,000 chargers by 2030
Today at CES 2023, a great-Big Tech conference in Vegas, Mercedes-Benz announced its answer to range anxiety and the great electric-vehicle charger shortage. Following the likes of Tesla and GM, the G
Mercedes to use Nvidia’s digital twin tech to modernize its factories
Mercedes-Benz is joining the metaverse. Or at least its assembly facilities are. The automaker is one of Nvidia’s latest customers to use Omniverse Enterprise, a software platform used to build
Rivian and Mercedes ‘pause’ plans to produce electric commercial van
Rivian and Mercedes-Benz have paused plans to produce electric commercial vans in Europe just three months after the two automakers announced the partnership. Rivian shares fell as much as 3.4% before
Mercedes-Benz partners with Canadian mining company for CO2-neutral lithium hydroxide for EVs
Mercedes-Benz AG will source carbon-neutral lithium hydroxide to build batteries for electric vehicles from a Vancouver-based mining startup. Starting in 2026, the agreement with Rock Tech Lithium wil
Apple is bringing Spatial Audio to cars, starting with Mercedes-Benz
Apple is bringing its immersive surround-sound audio product to vehicles through a partnership with Mercedes-Benz and Universal Music Group, the latest example of the tech company’s push into au
Uber turns to Nuro for AV delivery and Razor charges into the seated scooter market
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Mercedes-Benz and Rivian partner to jointly build electric vans in Europe
Mercedes-Benz and Rivian are partnering to produce electric vans at scale in Europe. The joint venture announced Thursday will help each automaker scale its bespoke large battery-electric van business
Audi to join Formula 1 with German-built hybrid power unit
Audi said Friday it will join Formula 1 for the 2026 season, competing alongside rival sportscar makers such as Aston Martin and Mercedes-Benz as the series shifts its focus to electrified race cars.
2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV begins production in Alabama
Mercedes-Benz began production of its first battery-electric SUV for the U.S. market on Thursday, fronting a movement expected to bring auto manufacturing onshore over the next decade. The 2023 Merced
Lithium-silicon batteries get vote of confidence with Sila’s Mercedes deal
Sila's deal to produce automotive-scale battery materials suggests that the startup has solved lithium-silicon's Achilles' heel.
Electric Mercedes G-Class will go the distance with Sila’s energy-dense silicon anodes
Sila says its silicon anode material can boost energy density by 20% to 40% over existing cells.