The equivalent fuel costs of 3.3L/100km of diesel, and 0g/km of CO2 emissions. These are the eco-vital statistics of the new Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL, which will be delivered to about 200 customers in the US and Europe early 2010.
These customers will consist of mainly owners in Hamburg, Stuttgart and California where Daimler has cooperations going with government authorities and utility/oil companies. This car and the decision to sell it is the fruit of more than 100 test vehicles and a combined total of over 4.5 million km of trial testing.
The B-Class F-CELL uses a 136hp electric motor with a massive 290Nm of torque from as low as 1rpm. That’s basically the entire rev range of the motor. The hydrogen capacity can take the car up to 385km on a full tank (NEDC driving cycle) and the tank can be replenished at a hydrogen refueling system in only 3 minutes, which is way shorter time than any EV can promise, even with quick chargers.
There is a 1.4kWh lithium ion battery that is used to temporarily store the charge recovered from brake energy regeneration and this energy will also be used to provide a power boost to the electric motor.
Mercedes-Benz’s stand is that internal combustion engines powered by fossil fuels will remain to be relevant for a long time to come – alternative energy solutions as they are now do not satisfy the needs of long haul travel not only just for consumers, but especially inter-state transport. But urban transport within cities will definitely benefit from zero-emission and low cost electric drive.
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when will our gov start to implement this…
385m? or is it km?
The only problem with this technology is the super high cost for passenger vehicle. My 2 cents worth opinion.
sounds promising.
Great eco car!!
How about stabilize the technology of nuclear, then implement it into cars?
Just few gram of nuclear power, 1 year also no need to pump fuel, and with the super fast speed, since nuclear power may make you have 1000Nm and 500HP easily.
haha…;D
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will most likely replace gasoline one day as it does not require any lifestyle changes to our driving habits. To me the current hybrid vehicles are just a transition as hydrogen infrastructure is still non existent and will take time to be implemented. As with any new technology the initial cost is always very high.
I dont think we will go straight to electric car propotion. Rather electric drive train with small backup generator as propose in Volt GM. Make sense as this will reduce the anxiety over distance range of electric cars. For hidrogen technology, hope that the cost do go down. But i think we will have fuel cell technology for residental or small business application rather than on cars. The danger of explosion will surely occur during accident. I am very scared to know that i may be driving a bomb waiting to explode.
How do we get hidrogen? From water?