Mercedes-Benz SA to start hybrid production, premium market to face headwinds

Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) was ramping up to start production of the C350e plug-in hybrid at the company’s Eastern Cape plant, said MBSA CEO and executive director manufacturing Arno van der Merwe on Thursday. Speaking in East London, Van der Merwe said the C-Class hybrid ⎯ most likely the first hybrid to be produced in a South African plant – would be a big step in “developing MBSA’s technical assembly capability”. The C350e would be available in the local market towards the end of the ...