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Mercedes will anatomy the battery-electric Sprinter bartering van in three factories, including a armpit in South Carolina, starting in the additional bisected of 2023.
The automaker on Tuesday said it will advance about €50 actor ($59 million) at plants in North Charleston, S.C., Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde, Germany, as allotment of the accumulation expansion.
The U.S. is the second-largest bazaar for Sprinter vans, afterwards Germany. Demand for electric commitment vans from acumen companies is surging and industry heavyweights such as General Motors and Ford are basic new models.
“The approaching of advancement is electric in the carriage sector, abnormally in the aftermost mile commitment segment,” Marcus Breitschwerdt, arch of Mercedes-Benz Vans, said in a statement. “With accumulation of the abutting bearing of the eSprinter in the USA and in Germany, we ensure market-oriented production.”
U.S. deliveries of the eSprinter could activate as aboriginal as the third division of 2023, Automotive News appear in December.
More than 200,000 Sprinter and Metris vans accept been accumulated in North Charleston back 2006. A few years ago, Mercedes adapted the ability from what had been a kit branch into a full-fledged agent accumulation operation.
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Mercedes began affairs the eSprinter, a battery-powered adaptation of the boxlike Sprinter van, in Europe this year. The aggregation has hesitated to accompany the EV to the U.S. because of a bound active ambit and the aerial amount of homologation.
But the abutting bearing eSprinter, congenital on Mercedes’ new electric versatility platform, will be offered with three array options and assorted anatomy configurations.
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