Alabama NewsCenter — Mercedes-Benz opens battery factory for Alabama-built electric vehicles

By Jerry Underwood
Made in Alabama

Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday officially opened a new battery plant on the automaker’s Bibb County campus, a few months before the start of production of all-electric Mercedes-EQ vehicles at its Alabama manufacturing center.

Mercedes will produce the EQS and EQE SUVs in its plant in Alabama, as part of a global push to produce eight all-electric vehicles at seven locations on three continents.

The state-of-the-art battery factory near the Bibb County community of Woodstock will provide high-performance lithium-ion batteries for the new electric sport utilities, which will be built at Mercedes’ assembly plant just miles away in Tuscaloosa County.

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