Mercedes-Benz has encountered an important problem in the new CLA: the high demand that long waiting lists are generating to receive cars.
Who said the electric cars of Mercedes did not sell? With the arrival of a new generation of plug -in vehicles, the signing of the star faces the -bendito- problem of not being able to supply with the demand of its new fashion model. All this, even though the brand assembly lines in Stuttgart 200 Mercedes Claedes come out every day.
Mercedes has put a lot of effort to develop the third generation of the CL. Not because it is the most important model of its product range, but because it symbolizes a before and after for its electrical interestsa new generation of more efficient vehicles, with greater autonomy and with reduced load times.
In this way, the German brand presented a few months ago the new CL as a 100% new generation electric vehicle, and with the promise that it would also be available with internal combustion motors and light hybrid technology, which means that you can buy a new Mercedes clas DGT In the coming months.
In Mercedes they do not supply with the demand for the new cla
Meanwhile, the company has already launched the production of the new model at its Stuttgart-Untartürkheim plant. There, Mercedes is able to produce about 200 units of its new electric per day. This, multiplied by the approximately 250 working days a year, results in about 50,000 vehicles per year That should be enough to meet demand.
Nothing is further from reality. The new CL does not stop accumulating orders and the company is being unable to satisfy its customers. Thus, Jörg Burzer, Mercedes Production Director, who said that The orders of the new Cla are “very encouraging” and confirmed that the increase in production advances without setbacks.
All this, despite supply problems, in particular rare earth materials from China necessary for electric cars propulsion. This has been a worry Throughout the industry, but Mercedes claims to have achieved the necessary components.
While demand is high, in Mercedes they are concerned about what is the realization capacity of their Stuttgart factory. And it is that from this German plant hundreds of thousands of new cars per year can leave, which is much more than the 50,000 clashes that have the capacity to produce right now. There will be other models on the MMA platform.
That the demand for a new model is high is something positive. However, this also has an inconvenience: waiting times. As reports Automotive weekmany cland will not be delivered until next year despite the fact that the order portfolio opened in April.
This could lead Mercedes to freeze the orders of the new model to its employees, thus allowing the most faithful customers of the brand to acquire it first.
While the company tries to solve this problem, in Mercedes they also work to meet the road map established for the coming months. The brand plans to launch CLA’s gasoline versions In the coming months, as well as adding a new body variant, the CLA Shooting Brakebefore the end of the year.
This is the new Mercedes Cladle
The German firm has deposited great hope in the new Mercedes Cla. This is something that can be seen with the naked eye, since the effort to develop an electric vehicle that ends the main impediments of this technology is reflected in its performance and technical characteristics.
The range is composed of two versions, both based on an electric architecture of 800 volts. The first is called Cla 250+ and has an engine of 200 kW (272 CV) with 335 nm of torque located on the rear axle. It feeds from a lithium -ion battery of 85 kWh with which it is capable of standing between 694 and 792 kilometers of autonomy per load, all thanks to a approved energy consumption of only 12.2 kWh/100 km.
The second is the 350 4matic cla and, as the name implies, it has four -wheel drive. Achieves it thanks to a second electric motor and a combined power of 353 CV with 515 nm torque. The battery is the united manganese nickel cobalt of 85 kWh, but in this case the autonomy remains between the 672 and 771 kilometers by loading with an average consumption of 12.5 kWh/100 km.
The electric architecture allows you to load the battery to a power of up to 320 kWwhich makes it possible to add between 285 and 325 kilometers of autonomy in just 10 minutes.
At the end of the year a variant will arrive at the range with a 58 kWh battery that will be positioned as the access version to the range. There will also be a Mercedes Cla hybrid of which the brand has not revealed all the details, although in Spain it will have an environmental label of the DGT.
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