The company denied the rumors
Mercedes-Benz has denied information about reducing investment in research and development of the platform for electric vehicles and abandoning the original MB.EA Large architecture.
We continue to develop new platforms for pure electric vehicle architecture. Mercedes-Benz remains committed to the electrification transformation and will continue to launch new pure-electric models. Mercedes-Benz is committed to creating products that best suit each customer's needs and will flexibly offer models with multiple driving modes, including pure electric models and hybrid models.
German publication Handelsblatt previously reported that Mercedes-Benz has significantly reduced investments in research and development of electric vehicle platforms and decided to abandon the previously planned new MB.EA Large architecture. The platform was originally scheduled to launch in 2028 and is intended to be the basis for the EQE and EQS sedans and crossovers. The article quotes four insiders who claim that Mercedes-Benz made this decision due to poor sales of the existing EQE and EQS models. It was expected that stopping the project and investing in modernizing production facilities would save Mercedes-Benz up to 6 billion euros
Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, said that the company intends to provide pure electric options across all lineups by 2030.