Tag: Ola Källenius
Mercedes-Benz share: Automaker exceeds expectations
Stuttgart Everything based on luxury and strict cost discipline: This course from Mercedes-Benz is paying off. The Stuttgart carmaker reports the best result ever for its business with cars and…
Mercedes-Benz share: Automaker exceeds expectations
Mercedes Star The automaker can significantly increase its profits. (Photo: dpa) Stuttgart The Stuttgart-based carmaker Mercedes-Benz earned more in its operating business last year than originally assumed. Adjusted operating profit…
Mercedes-Benz exceeds expectations
Mercedes Star The automaker can significantly increase its profits. (Photo: dpa) Stuttgart Thanks to high prices for new and used cars, the car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz made more profits in the…
Auto industry on a luxury course
Munich Due to a lack of semiconductors, the German auto industry built fewer cars in 2021 than it has in 46 years. Nevertheless, Mercedes-Benz, the BMW Group and the Volkswagen…
From Saturday, Daimler will be called the Mercedes-Benz Group
Ola Källenius As of Saturday, the CEO of Daimler AG is the CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. (Photo: Reuters) Munich It is the most visible symbol of the radical change…
Lucid Air (2022) in the test: price, hp, range
Beverly Hills He is something like the top trump in the quartet of electric luxury sedans. Because since the American start-up Lucid started delivering the Air in October, the Tesla…
A solo too much by Lothar Wieler – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Lothar Wieler qualified for his immediate dismissal as head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Yesterday he struck up to protect against Omikron with the demand for “maximum contact restrictions”,…
Carolin Strauss becomes the new head of strategy
Carolin Strauss The manager will be the new head of strategy at Daimler at the turn of the year (Photo: Daimler) Munich It is extremely rare for Daimler boss Ola…
The model of the early New Year’s rest – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
You’re in luck for New Year’s Eve if you’ve planned a party for ten people. That is the upper limit that the federal and state governments will decide today for…
Daimler boss wants to increase margin to 14 percent
Electric sedan Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant: Expensive vehicles, fewer emissions, is the plan of Daimler boss Ola Källenius. The Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4MATIC electric sedan has been rolling off the assembly…
The next emergency summit is Omikron – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
We go into Christmas week with unsettling races. The first deals with the extent to which booster vaccinations help to deter the new virus variant Omikron. The second, in many…
This is how the new head of the works council, Ergun Lümali, ticks
Munich Becoming a works council was never Ergun Lümali’s declared career goal. He actually wanted to move up from assembly line worker to master craftsman at Daimler and so be…
The Chinese hold almost 20 percent in Daimler
Mercedes Star Mercedes-Benz builds cars for the Chinese market with BAIC. (Photo: picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS) Munich What Lower Saxony is to Volkswagen, China is now to Daimler: a…
After Daimler Truck IPO: Källenius wants to push Mercedes conversion
Ola Källenius rings the bell for the initial listing of Daimler Truck The Daimler CEO is satisfied with the spin-off of the truck business. (Photo: dpa) Munich, Berlin On Friday,…
Daimler Truck promises higher margins ahead of its IPO
Test of an autonomously driving Daimler truck It is still completely open whether Daimler can maintain its market leadership in the electric age. (Photo: via REUTERS) Munich It was almost…
Mercedes wants to build giant electric sedans in China from 2024
Mercedes EQS at the auto show in Shanghai The model will appear in 2022 as a sedan and SUV – a variant called SUS could be added later. (Photo: imago…
Daimler CEO Källenius, BMW CEO Zipse and VW CEO Diess on the transformation of the automotive industry
Dusseldorf At the Handelsblatt Auto Summit in 2021, Daimler boss Ola Källenius declared that he would be focusing on emission-free cars by 2035. In doing so, he agreed to the…
This is how the car companies want to become sustainable
Düsseldorf, Munich Even if there is a lack of chips in vehicle production everywhere, the triumph of electric cars seems unstoppable. In October, their share of new car registrations in…
Daimler Truck goes public in December
Munich Now it is fixed: In just over a month, the Stuttgart car manufacturer Daimler will split off its truck division and go public in Frankfurt, as the Dax group…
It is time for the combustion engine to be phased out
Volkswagen The big car companies have to switch to e-mobility. (Photo: dpa) In 24 countries, the combustion engine as a car drive now has a fixed expiry date. Great Britain,…