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Mercedes-Benz CEO says luxury drivers will help spur the transition to electric vehicles.

Mercedes CEO Ola Kallenius told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that the company’s plan to switch to electric vehicles is the right thing — even from a business perspective.

I really believe that in this decade, we will flip from being based upon high tech internal combustion engines to going dominant electric, if not all electric, in the luxury segment.”

The company has said that it will have fully electric versions of all of its models by 2025, and that all of the new vehicle architectures it develops after that date will be electric-only.

We do it because we think it’s right,” Kallenius said. “But we also do it because we think it’s going to be the better business. I don’t think there’s any question for a modern company, a forward-thinking modern company, that we need to decarbonize.”

As long as you give the customer a superior product to what they had before, they’re open minded for a switch” to electric models, he said. “The experience for the customer in terms of the torque, the performance, everything is fantastic.”

Zalman3 skrev:

CEO Ola Kallenius är ju Svensk!
Han fick nog jobbet för att Mercedes skulle ställa om.

Fredrik j skrev:

Zalman3 skrev:

CEO Ola Kallenius är ju Svensk!
Han fick nog jobbet för att Mercedes skulle ställa om.

Kallenius har ju jobbat på Mercedes i över 20år.

Ola Källenius has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG – now Mercedes-Benz Group AG - since January 1, 2015, and Chairman of the Board of Management since May 22, 2019. He is also Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG.

Dieter Zetsche
In September 2018, it was announced that Zetsche will step down as the company's CEO in May 2019, in compliance of a two-year-long hiatus regulatory rule, before becoming chairman of Daimler's supervisory board in 2021,[4] succeeding Manfred Bischoff.[5]

Zalman3 skrev:

Fredrik j skrev:

Zalman3 skrev:

CEO Ola Kallenius är ju Svensk!
Han fick nog jobbet för att Mercedes skulle ställa om.

Kallenius har ju jobbat på Mercedes i över 20år.

Men Ola har ju bara varit CEO sedan maj 2019.

Ola Källenius has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG – now Mercedes-Benz Group AG - since January 1, 2015, and Chairman of the Board of Management since May 22, 2019. He is also Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG.

Dieter Zetsche
In September 2018, it was announced that Zetsche will step down as the company's CEO in May 2019, in compliance of a two-year-long hiatus regulatory rule, before becoming chairman of Daimler's supervisory board in 2021,[4] succeeding Manfred Bischoff.[5]