The new EQS SUV is the first all-electric Mercedes Benz EQ built in the United States and has been successfully launched at the Tuscaloosa plant.
The EQS SUV will be produced exclusively in the U.S. with a highly efficient battery systems to be supplied by the recently opened Mercedes Benz Battery Factory in Bibb County, Alabama.
These vehicles rolling off the line is a key step in Mercedes Benz Cars’ global initiative to produce eight all-electric vehicles at seven sites on three continents this year.
The full-size EQS SUV is integrated in series production at the Mercedes Benz Tuscaloosa plant in Alabama, which has been the production site for large SUVs bearing the three-pointed star since 1997. Tuscaloosa serves as a key production location for Mercedes-EQ luxury electric SUVs: the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, which goes into production later this year.
The Tuscaloosa plant uses state-of-the-art digital, sustainable, efficient and flexible production methods and follows the blueprint of the company`s Factory 56 in Sindelfingen, Germany, which symbolizes the future of automotive production of Mercedes Benz.
Thanks to early investments into flexible production and the use of the state-of-the-art MO360 digital production ecosystem, Mercedes Benz is already able to produce battery-electric vehicles in large volumes.
Local battery production is a key success factor for Mercedes-Benz’s electrification initiative
The new battery factory, which opened in Bibb County in March, produces the battery systems for the EQS SUV on an approximately 300-meter or 985 feet-long production line with more than 70 workstations.
A host of components is assembled into a complete system in a fully digitized production process, including up to twelve cell modules and what is known as the EE compartment for the intelligent integration of the power electronics.
The battery for the EQS SUV is based on a modular architecture that is also used in the EQS and EQE Sedans. With the new plant, Bibb County is now a part of the global Mercedes Benz battery production network, which comprises of factories on three different continents.
Source: Mercedes Benz
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