Germany has been slow to embrace electric vehicles and associated technology as it clings to the combustion engine that has driven its post-war prosperity. Pictured is a concept car at a ceremony for the second battery factory at Daimler subsidiary Accumotive in Kamenz, Germany.
BERLIN/STUTTGART: Daimler chief executive Dieter Zetsche beamed as he posed for cameras in a Mercedes-Benz electric car after meeting politicians to discuss the future of the auto industry in Stuttgart, birthplace of the combustion engine.
What the pictures do not reveal is that the Mercedes EQ car was a prototype that had to be dragged into the city square by four employees before the shoot.
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