Mercedes-Benz opens its first high-power charging stations this fall, implementing its far-reaching plans to broaden its world charging infrastructure. Beginning in October, the primary Mercedes-Benz Charging Hubs will go into operation in Atlanta (USA), Chengdu (China) and Mannheim (Germany).
By the top of 2024, Mercedes-Benz goals to additional broaden its world charging community to over 2,000 high-power charging factors. The long-term purpose is to create greater than 2,000 Charging Hubs with over 10,000 charging factors by the top of the last decade.
With this charging community, Mercedes-Benz units new requirements for quick, handy and sustainable charging of electrical autos. Relying on area, the charging stations provide charging fee of at present as much as 400 kW, offered by way of the respective normal charging programs CCS1, CCS2, NACS and GB/T. Due to clever charging administration, every automobile may be charged at its most energy ranking. This reduces the charging time for purchasers to an absolute minimal.
When deciding on the situation of the Charging Hubs, Mercedes-Benz attaches nice significance to a pleasing and protected buyer expertise. The charging stations are situated at important site visitors areas and choose Mercedes-Benz dealerships, and provide different close by facilities, corresponding to refreshments, snacks and restroom amenities. To make sure security, it’s deliberate to equip the charging stations with surveillance cameras. At chosen areas, clever gentle poles provide not solely applicable lighting but additionally practical LED components that present info on the supply of the charging level and the charging standing of the automobile. Canopies at chosen Charging Hubs provide safety in opposition to climate.
The charging community is open to drivers of all manufacturers. Mercedes-Benz clients take pleasure in particular advantages, for instance the flexibility to order a charging level by way of the Mercedes-Benz me Cost service to scale back ready occasions. The Mercedes-Benz charging community will likely be seamlessly built-in and can complement the greater than 1.3 million charging factors to which customers have already got entry worldwide. With the assistance of Mercedes-Benz’s Navigation with Electrical Intelligence, the charging stations will likely be built-in instantly into route planning to point out the easiest way to cost. To make the charging expertise much more handy, the charging stations will provide extra comfort options, corresponding to Plug & Cost. This service permits Mercedes-Benz clients to automate the charging and cost course of as quickly because the charging cable is plugged in.
“We firmly imagine that electrical mobility is the important thing to a sustainable, zero-emission future. Our purpose is to create an infrastructure that gives electrical autos dependable and simple charging choices. On this manner, we’re actively supporting the transformation to electrical mobility With the Mercedes-Benz Excessive-Energy Charging Community, we’re increasing world charging choices and setting new requirements in electrical automobile charging. We wish to encourage our clients to change to zero-emission autos and thus make a optimistic contribution to defending the environment,” stated Franz Reiner, CEO Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG.
In keeping with its sustainable enterprise technique “Ambition 2039”, Mercedes-Benz additionally permits its clients to cost in an environmentally pleasant manner with 100% renewable electrical energy used inside this charging community. That is ideally carried out by means of inexperienced electrical energy provide contracts wherever attainable or by utilizing renewable vitality certificates from an accredited provider. Chosen Charging Hubs may even be outfitted with photo voltaic panels to offer electrical energy for the hubs themselves.
Mercedes-Benz continues to drive its “electrical solely” technique ahead and commits to a future-oriented charging infrastructure by investing in a worldwide charging community. With the event of the Mercedes-Benz Excessive-Energy Charging Community, Mercedes-Benz is increasing its current providing repeatedly. A part of that is additionally the European quick charging community IONITY and the just lately introduced three way partnership with six different OEMs to additional broaden the North American charging infrastructure. The Mercedes-Benz Excessive-Energy Charging Community is a further key part of the corporate’s total electrification technique. All companies associated to the charging ecosystem are housed beneath Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG.
Aug 29, 2023