Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan enters series production ahead of summer 2021 launch

Mercedes-Benz board members and executives celebrating the start of EQS series production. Image: Daimler

The Mercedes-Benz EQS has entered series production at the company’s Factory 56 in Sindelfingen, Germany, alongside Mercedes-Benz S-Class and Mercedes-Maybach models. The production facility is the result of over 730 million Euros invested, as Mercedes-Benz looks to rolling out its electrification strategy, and reducing its environmental footprint.

Factory 56 will be completely CO₂-neutral, thanks in part to a rooftop photovoltaic system and energy storage system based on reused vehicle batteries. Mercedes-Benz plans to use Factory 56 as an environmentally friendly manufacturing blueprint to transfer to its other vehicle plants worldwide.

Mercedes-Benz claims to have reached new levels of efficiency in the assembly process, due to high levels of digitisation and an MO360 digital ecosystem that focuses on providing the best possible support to its 1,500+ workers at Factory 56.

According to Michael Bauer, Site Manager and Head of Production of Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen Plant, "With the EQS in our portfolio, we are once again proving the future viability of the Sindelfingen site: Here tradition is combined with a new understanding of innovation and sustainability. Thanks to our highly competent team, we have successfully completed the start of production of the EQS at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant."

The EQS is set for a summer 2021 launch in Europe and North America, with other markets to follow late in 2021-22. Read more on the EQS in our launch preview.

Factory 56 at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant. Image: Daimler.