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Joachim Becker
“Electric First” (2020) became “Electric Only” (2021): Mercedes has tightened its electric strategy every year. Group boss Ola Källenius no longer wants to sell models with combustion engines from 2030 onwards. Will the people in Stuttgart really switch to purely battery-powered vehicles worldwide? This is also the question for Audi, Volvo and other premium brands. Because all of them have so far neither the battery factories nor the suppliers for the enormous demand for cell materials, let alone their own cell technology.