Plastic is finding more uses into our vehicles, allowing weight savings and better heat management, two aspects contributing to better fuel consumption. Daimler is now using the world’s first plastic engine support for its six-cylinder diesel engine installed in the new GL Class. The announcement was made at the VDI-K Conference “Plastics in Automotive Engineering”,
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Infiniti is launching the European version of the Q50 at the Geneva Motor Show both with a hybrid vesion and a diesel version. The Infiniti Q50 is the first Infiniti Q car to take the Geneva spotlight. An all-new sedan for the premium D segment, the Q50 is on show in Geneva in 3.5 Hybrid
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Post Danmark will be delivering snail mail with the help of electric vehicles. In the coming months Mercedes-Benz Danmark will deliver 50 Mercedes-Benz Vito E-CELL battery-powered electric vehicles to Post Danmark, the Danish postal services. Mercedes-Benz said this is the largest order for Vito E-CELL panel vans in Europe to date. “We are delighted about
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The current edition of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class flagship sedan made its appearance as a 2007 model, and underwent a mild nip and tuck facelift for 2010. As part of the refresh, the German automaker also debuted its first gasoline-electric hybrid, the S400 Hybrid. As the world’s first mass-production automobile to employ a lithium-ion battery (the
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The Mercedes-Benz S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY was declared the 2012 World Green Car during the New York International Auto Show. The Mercedes-Benz S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY was chosen from an initial entry list of 23 new vehicles from all over the world, then three finalists: the Mercedes-Benz S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY, the Ford Focus Electric,
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Mercedes-Benz is launching a Europe-only diesel-hybrid version of its E Class sedan. Named E 300 BlueTEC HYBRID, its strength will be a low diesel consumption of 4.2 l diesel/100 km (56 mpg) and 109 g CO2/km. Its modular hybrid concept with lithium-ion battery does not impose any compromises on space and combines numerous energy saving
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We’d said it would happen, and sure enough, Daimler and BYD unveiled their joint EV brand Denza today. They literally just unveiled the brand. The cars will be unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show in the last week of April. They should have kept everything covered and hire some professionals. The brand unveiling took place
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With commercial vehicles increasingly becoming targets for cleaner emissions and improved fuel mileage, manufacturers have been looking at ways to improve powertrain efficiency. Besides exploring EV, Hybrid and Natural Gas technology, in the short term, one of the most logical is developing cleaner, more frugal diesel engines. In order to comply with the upcoming Euro
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How do you create great visibility for your new fuel cell demonstration vehicle? If you’re Mercedes- Benz, you coat your F-Cell with LEDs and make it next to invisible – then take lots of pictures and videos of it. Oh also, circumnavigate the globe with it and make sure that gets good publicity too. These
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Although the U.S. is still being promised a delayed BYD electric car, Daimler and BYD have announced plans to produce one next year in China. According to Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche, the EV that will be built as a joint venture “is frozen, and the first prototype will appear next April.” Zetsche was reported by
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