Mercedes-Benz has agreed with employee representatives on a plan to switch to electric cars. As the company announced on Wednesday after weeks of negotiations, the plant in Rastatt, Baden, will remain a competence center for compact vehicles. So far, the A and B classes have been rolling off the assembly line there. The factories in Rastatt and in Kecskemét, Hungary, will be building models based on a new electric platform from the year after next. For smaller cars, there will only be four instead of seven body variants in the future. The manufacturer did not explicitly comment on the future of the A and B classes. It is too early to commit to individual models.
E-car production – Mercedes stays in Rastatt – economy
