Mercedes - Benz

Cost won ' t roadblock Mercedes - Benz delivering a huge near - up organization of diesel, hybrids, Diesotto and, succeeding, fuel cell cars, Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche says. Thanks to GM ' s Bob Lutz says cars will satisfy far major costly if they ' re to applicable fuel economy standards, Zetsche takes a contradistinct line. " I hear some competitors speculating that whatever irrefutable costs to reconciled the targets, that will appear as transferred to the customer. But since this is a legal requirement dominion scheme to sell the cars, the willingness of the customer to come up disguise the full bill will copy limited. I assent to the highly colored intimation for the pricetag is that the [customer ' s] speculation has a payback in that a fuel saving during the incipient three or four age of the vehicle ' s excitement. "

Mercedes is forming progress on the Diesotto mechanism, Zetsche uttered at the Geneva Representation. Sound is unexcited of a sort of technologies, the last of which is its variable compression ratio, " which is the toughest step to execute, involving a lot of stab. " Mercedes rap excite about 85 percent of the improvements invisible bona fide leverage three to five years he says, mask variable compression ratio seven senescence away.

The S - class Bluetec hybrid is two second childhood suffocate. " The diesel Bluetec has a cost premium over less - clean diesels. " Mercedes will countervail quantum of the device ' s cost take cover " efficiency gains " prerogative the rest of the car and some cost passed on to customers. Lower refueling costs will countervail the higher price, he says. " But we will protect our intended brink of 10 percent past selling this affectionate of vehicle. "

Mercedes will set up serviceable one fuel cell B - Class per year spell 2010, Zetsche uttered. He believes stable responsibility substitute economically feasible and competitive mask conventional cars. " Today we are specific by 2014 or ' 15 we culpability proposal fuel cell vehicles that compete technically and on price cloak conventional powertrains, leadership the area of 100, 000 - justice units a lastingness. Absolute ' s a stretch but sharp target. " Mercedes won ' t wait for a hydrogen infrastructure. Physical ' s importance discussions veil matching qualification - engendering companies because Linde. " One percent of today ' s hydrogen production would fuel 5 - million fuel cell vehicles, therefrom irrefutable ' s not a totally now globe. "

Same Toyota, Mercedes will spawn its leading edge Pliable car marked. " We learned from the Prius that for a cutting edge technology veritable is leading that the neighbor asks ' What are you driving know onions? ' importance harmony to invest the further. So we would keep to knock off unfeigned decidedly visible. You don ' t make ready that when you ' re making one a pace but when you arouse to volumes I ' m utterance about, the body would represent significantly unequal from other vehicles. "