From luxury cars to tuk-tuks, an electric era dawns
By end of 2022, a fully-electric Mercedes-EQS will roll off a production line in Bangkok to mark another milestone in Thailand’s remarkable journey from conventional automaking hub to regional frontrunner in electric vehicle (EV) production.
The German luxury carmaker not only chose Thailand as its first location in Southeast Asia to manufacture the trail-blazing EQS, but also selected the Kingdom as one of only seven locations in the world to produce the high-performance lithium-ion batteries that can power the vehicles for more than 700 kilometres on a single charge.
“This shows how important Thailand is to us,” Roland Folger, President & CEO of Mercedes-Benz’s Thai business, said in an interview. “The EQS is the…
