Mercedes-Benz will use the new plant to provide batteries for its EQE and EQS SUVs, which will be built at the nearby Tuscaloosa factory.
- Mercedes-Benz has opened a new battery factory in Bibb County, Alabama.
- It will assemble lithium-ion battery packs for the EQE and EQS SUVs, both of which will be built nearby at a factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- The new battery plant is expected to create up to 600 local jobs and be powered entirely by renewable resources by 2024.
Mercedes-Benz now has a second factory in the state of Alabama, with the opening of its new battery plant in Bibb County. The company’s other factory is located in neighboring Tuscaloosa County and is where the upcoming all-electric EQE and EQS SUVs will start production within the next few months.
The new battery plant will provide batteries for those two vehicles and create up to 600 local jobs. Mercedes says that the production of the batteries is carbon-neutral, too, and that it expects the plant to get all of its electricity from renewable resources by 2024. When asked where it’s sourcing the raw materials, a spokesperson told Car and Driver only that the company ensures they are “responsibly mined.” (In fact, Mercedes issued a position paper on the subject in late 2020.)
Mercedes says it has invested more than $7 billion in Alabama since the 1990s, of which $1 billion went into the new battery plant, the logistic centers, and retooling the assembly line at the Tuscaloosa factory to accommodate its upcoming electric vehicles alongside conventional internal-combustion models, such as the GLE-class and GLS-class SUVs.
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