{"id":15608,"date":"2025-02-28T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2025\/02\/28\/15608\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:03:44","slug":"15608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2025\/02\/28\/15608\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz VAN.CA: Combustion engine continues to run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is “battery drive” really the only path currently being pursued by car manufacturers, as many media and combustion engine critics keep claiming?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course not. After many car manufacturers have gradually corrected their unrealistic “all-electric” strategy of recent years in favor of the combustion engine, “pioneer” Mercedes Benz is now also rowing according to vision-mobility.de<\/span><\/a> in the area of vans!!! <\/span><\/p>\n

According to vision-mobility.de:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A thin press release also hints at the strategy correction for vans with the three-pointed star after passenger cars: In addition to the purely electric VAN.EA, there will also be a VAN.CA<\/span> with combustion engines in the future. Because customers are not going electric <\/a>.<\/p>\n

The press release continues: “In order to flexibly meet customer requirements, Mercedes-Benz Vans will in future offer vans with state-of-the-art combustion engines alongside electric vehicles on a single architecture”.<\/span><\/p>\n

In plain language: no combustion engines, no sales.
\nIt’s a good thing that these vehicles can then be operated in a significantly more climate-friendly way with HVO or eFuels, without completely bypassing the customer ideologically and ruining our car industry, including all jobs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now all that remains is to overturn the EU combustion ban, as Friedrich Merz had already called for in the 2024 European election campaign!<\/span><\/p>\n

We are keeping our fingers crossed!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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