Diesel, for example.

https://www.daimler.com/investors/events/capital-market-days/2020-mercedes-benz-strategy-update.html

Where are they going to get enough lithium, copper, and cobalt to go 100% electric by 2039?

Asking for a friend

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The OM 642/722.9 powered family
Still going strong
2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech

Probably bolivia for Lithium. Whether bolivians nationalize the industry so it benefits the bolivian people or liberalize it so the sale benefits a few, I think a stable solution is what matters more to industry. Reelection of MAS candidates after the coup on Evo Morales points to the first.

As soon as the US pulled the plug on incandescent light bulbs for living & working spaces, the market conversion to LED's was really fast and prices dropped really fast too. A couple 20W fluourescent tubes cost about as much as a brighter LED light and fixture that won't flicker, dim, shatter or be hard to light off in the cold and uses like 5 or 10 W.

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CC: NSA

All things are burning, know this and be released.

82 Benz 240 D, Kuan Yin
12 Ford Escape 4wd

You're four times

It's hard to

more likely to

concentrate on

have an accident

two things

when you're on

at the same time.

a cell phone.

www.kiva.org It's not like there's anything wrong with feeling good, is there?

Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG: "Our product complexity is excessive" Ya think? lol. They had to bring in a Swede to admit what the Germans have been in denial of since the W140.

Also, took them long enough to see the electric writing on the wall...

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You are entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts.

I believe this needs to be moved to "off topic" discussion.

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Ian White

1995 E300 Diesel w124 OM606
2014 E550 w212 M278 biturbo

2001 BMW 740i E38 M62 (past)
1981 300SD w126 OM617 (past)

All of those things are already readily available is far greater quantities than we need.

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Too much to read. Is there a Cliff Notes version? I have heard that the new leader plans to take MB upwards to a more premium customer base. But have no time to ferret that information out of the URL above.