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Wed Jun 15, 2016, 06:26 PM Jun 2016

This is Daimler's plan for future electric, hybrid and hydrogen Mercedes cars

IBTimes | Alistair Charlton | June 14, 2016

Mercedes owner Daimler has set out plans to significantly increase its production of electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and is targeting over 100,000 electric sales per year by 2020...snip



..."We will invest €14.5bn (£11.5bn) in research and development in the next two years alone − more than half of it will again be spent on green technologies. Just for our passenger cars, we are talking about €5.4bn," said Prof Dr Thomas Weber, member of the board of management of Daimler.

The German company plans to launch four new electric cars under the Mercedes brand in the near future, and the first of which will be revealed at the Paris motor show in October. Daimler also has plans to electrify its Smart range of small two- and four-seat city cars.

Several of these new vehicles − especially the larger Mercedes saloon cars − will share the same "electric vehicle architecture", a platform developed by Daimler to easily fit electric motors and an enormous battery pack to several different cars. Tesla employs a similar sharing system, by giving the Model S and Model X the same chassis, electric motors and battery...snip
Read More: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-daimlers-plan-future-electric-hybrid-hydrogen-mercedes-cars-1565467

Related: Two sources of energy is better than one, the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2016/0614/Two-sources-of-energy-is-better-than-one-the-Mercedes-Benz-GLC-F-Cell



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This is Daimler's plan for future electric, hybrid and hydrogen Mercedes cars (Original Post) nationalize the fed Jun 2016 OP
I want a self-driving car that can go to work without me. Gomez163 Jun 2016 #1
Another useless effort by useless rich people to pretend that they care about the world. NNadir Jun 2016 #2

NNadir

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2. Another useless effort by useless rich people to pretend that they care about the world.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 08:15 PM
Jun 2016

The atmosphere is collapsing, and the efforts of Mercedes drivers to pretend that they give a rat's ass would be amusing, were the consequences of this dire nonsense not so tragic.

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