Daimler, BAIC Motor Invest Nearly USD2 Billion in New Luxury Car Plant
Wu Ziye
DATE:  Feb 26 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Daimler, BAIC Motor Invest Nearly USD2 Billion in New Luxury Car Plant Daimler, BAIC Motor Invest Nearly USD2 Billion in New Luxury Car Plant

(Yicai Global) Feb. 26 -- Daimler's joint venture partner BAIC Motor Corp. announced that it would expand its cooperation with Daimler following Geely Auto's splurging USD9 billion to become the German carmaker's largest shareholder.

 BAIC Motor and Daimler plan to expand the scale of their production of Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles in China. The pair will jointly invest over CNY12 billion (USD1.9 billion) to build a new luxury production base for the joint venture Beijing Benz Automotive Co. (BBAC). The new plant will produce a variety of Mercedes-Benz products, per the plan -- including new energy electric vehicles -- and will have a complete luxury car manufacturing system to further enhance BBAC's overall capacity, BAIC Motor announced yesterday.

 The German carmaker has formed joint ventures with Chinese automakers BYD and BAIC. What effect Geely's Daimler acquisition will have on the its subsisting Chinese partnerships is still up in the air.

 Daimler and BAIC Motor signed a new framework agreement last July, per which the two sides will jointly invest CNY5 billion in BBAC to establish a pure electric car production base and power battery factory to produce Mercedes-Benz all-electric vehicle products.

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