{"id":569547,"date":"2023-04-12T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=569547"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:40:17","slug":"mercedes-posts-rise-in-q1-sales-boosted-by-evs-premium-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mercedes-posts-rise-in-q1-sales-boosted-by-evs-premium-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes posts rise in Q1 sales boosted by EVs, premium cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz Group sales rose moderately in the first quarter of this year, boosted by electric vehicles (EV) and premium cars, the German carmaker said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide sales increased 3% to 503,500 vehicles, with Europe posting the strongest growth at 8%.<\/p>\n<p>EVs were the main growth driver in the quarter, with sales almost doubling to 51,600 units.<\/p>\n<p>The top-end segment &#8211; which includes models such as AMG, Maybach and G-class &#8211; also demonstrated solid growth of 18%, reaching 91,800 for the period.<\/p>\n<p>Britta Seeger, a Mercedes board member, said both segments posted strong results &#8220;despite ongoing supply chain disruptions, economic headwinds and geopolitical uncertainties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sales in the Mercedes-Benz Vans division grew 12% in the quarter, reaching 98,900 &#8211; its best first-quarter result ever.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Swedish peer Volvo reported record first-quarter profits in a sign the company has begun to overcome bottlenecks and inflation that hampered the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz Group sales rose moderately in the first quarter of this year, boosted by electric vehicles (EV) and premium cars, the German carmaker said on Wednesday. Worldwide sales increased 3% to 503,500 vehicles, with Europe posting the strongest growth at 8%. EVs were the main growth driver in the quarter, with sales almost doubling to 51,600 units. The top-end segment &#8211; which includes models such as AMG, Maybach and G-class &#8211; also demonstrated solid growth of 18%, reaching 91,800 for the period. Britta Seeger, a Mercedes board member, said both segments posted strong results &#8220;despite ongoing supply chain disruptions, economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}