Daimler will cut more jobs, according to the strategic vision presented by CEO Ola Källenius later today. The parent company of Mercedes-Benz is fully committed to electric mobility, which means that some factories will be set up differently.
Mercedes-Benz is slowly phasing out the combustion engine. This has consequences for the current workforce in the factories. From the strategy, that Bloomberg and Automotive News It follows that 4,000 jobs will be lost by 2025 at the Untertürkheim plant near the Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Stuttgart. In Berlin there are probably 1,000 jobs at risk. The factories in Germany are focusing more on the production of batteries and EVs, while Mercedes-Benz is increasingly moving the production of combustion engines to Eastern Europe. The staff is cheaper there. The number of jobs that will now be cut is in addition to the previously announced number of 15,000.
In addition to EVs, Daimler will mainly focus on the models with higher margins. An important model that must fulfill both roles is the electric top model EQS, which must be unveiled shortly. There will probably also be a Maybach variant. Of course it does not end here, because the EQB and EQA are also in the pipeline. However, that does not mean that Mercedes-Benz will immediately say goodbye to the combustion engine. In an interview with Techzle CEO Ola Källenius said that by 2030 the mobile fleet will still be largely equipped with combustion engines. He stated that electrification will predominate and the share of combustion engines in the supply is gradually decreasing. Since less human hands are needed to produce EVs, it makes sense that jobs will eventually disappear.
The plans also mean that Mercedes-Benz models will eventually disappear. It is already known that the S-class Coupé and Cabriolet have to leave the field. It has not yet been officially announced which models will no longer receive a successor.