First electric Sprinter rolls off Dusseldorf production line

Mercedes-Benz Vans celebrated a significant milestone on December 12 when the first model of the new e-Sprinter rolled off the production line at it’s Dusseldorf manufacturing plant.

The Dusseldorf plant celebrated the start of production of the Mercedes-Benz eSprinter with an event for employees and invited guests.

The Head of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Dusseldorf, Dr Armin Willy welcomed the guests and employees as well as Marcus Breitschwerdt, Head of Mercedes-Benz Vans, and Ingo Ettischer, Head of Mercedes-Benz Vans Operations. The Lord Mayor of Dusseldorf Thomas Geisel and the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet attended the event.

More than 4.6 million vehicles have been produced from the Mercedes-Benz Dusseldorf van plant since 1962. It is the leading Sprinter plant worldwide and serves as a benchmark for the other locations. It has produced more than 200,000 units of the new Sprinter since 2018.

The production of the fully electric eSprinter marks the beginning of a new era in Dusseldorf. Mercedes-Benz Vans invested around 330 million euros in the expansion of the plant taking into account the manufacture of both conventionally operated and fully electric vehicles on a single production line.

The result will be flexibility and the ability to meet both customer and market requirements. the plant has also been massively investing in the basic and advanced training of its own employees.

Since the decision was made to build the eSprinter in Dusseldorf, the plant has become the competence centre for electric drives and has developed the requisite expertise. To date more than 2,400 employees have been trained for handling and assembling the high-voltage technologies.