At Daimler we are now almost certain that with the 2020 sold new cars the CO 2 – To have complied with limit values. CEO Ola Källenius referred on Thursday (Jan. 7th 2021) to an “enormous ramp-up” for purely electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the second Half of the year. Therefore, based on your own calculations, you assume that you have achieved the goals. In the middle 2020 Daimler AG had to fear high fines.

Increasing share of electrification Daimler did in the year 2020 round 160. 000 Mercedes vehicles with battery-electric or hybrid drives sold, half of them in the last quarter alone. Of these, around 30. 000 are electrical powered micro cars of the Smart brand. Daimler is yet to submit full sales figures.

The fleet limit of 95 Grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilometer relates to the average of all vehicles sold by a manufacturer. The more electric and hybrid vehicles a manufacturer sells, the sooner it can compensate for the significantly higher values ​​of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

Confirmation by the authorities is still pending If this does not succeed, penalties will be due. The value is not the same for all carmakers, but is set individually for each one – depending on whether he mainly builds small, light or large, heavy cars. He cannot yet say what value Daimler has actually achieved, explained Källenius. Confirmation by the authorities is still pending.

( fpi)