Meanwhile, Georgia has landed multibillion-dollar EV factories from Hyundai Motor Co. Volvo will begin building electric crossovers at its Ridgeville, South Carolina, factory early next year. The newly electrified Alabama plant is part of an 'EV Belt' emerging across the Southeast of the U.S.įord, General Motors and Volkswagen have announced battery-vehicle assembly plants in neighboring Tennessee.

EV production will integrate into the plant's existing body and paint shop and assembly lines. The company's Alabama plant will continue to build gasoline-powered versions of the GLE and GLS alongside the battery-electric models. Jörg Burzer, global head of Mercedes-Benz production, said the automaker's manufacturing network is 'well positioned for the sustainable and rapid scaling of electric vehicle volumes.' The Vance factory, one of seven EV production sites on three continents, could deliver more than 100,000 EVs next year, or about a third of its 305,000-unit annual capacity. It's the third model based on Mercedes' EVA2 architecture for upper market segment EVs after the EQS and slightly smaller EQE. The EQS SUV will be the brand’s flagship full-electric SUV and is being built for global markets including Europe at Mercedes's U.S. Mercedes-Benz has started production of the EQS SUV as it expands its all-electric lineup in its attempt to catch up to EV front-runner Tesla.

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