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Report: Renault and Mercedes to team up on small car platform

According to a report in UK magazine AutoCar, Mercedes-Benz and Renault are planning to collaborate on a new modular micro-car platform. The new architecture would form the basis of the next generation of Smart cars as well as the new Twizzy electric vehicle from Renault. Like the current Smart ForTwo, the new platform will be rear engine and rear wheel drive but it will be able to accomodate a stretched wheelbase for a new ForFour. The two seater would arrive in 2013 and the four seater a year later. The last ForFour was actually a ... Read more →

Small piece of history: 1936 Mercedes 260D, the first successful diesel passenger car Xavier Navarro

1936 Mercedes 260D - Click on image for full high-resolution gallery digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/1936_Mercedes_260D_Was_First_Successful_Diesel_Passenger_Car'; Rudolf Diesel filed the ...

Mercedes-Benz to get €9M from German government for electric vans Sam Abuelsamid

The German environment ministry has awarded Mercedes-Benz a grant of up to €9 million a field test of battery electric Sprinter vans. The money will be used to fund the research and ...

LA Preview: Mercedes to show ML450 hybrid, new F-Cell Sam Abuelsamid

The new Mercedes-Benz ML450 is available for lease starting this week here in the U.S., but it will be making its auto show debut in production form in Los Angeles the week after next. The ...

Daimler debuts next-gen Citaro fuel cell bus in Hamburg, cuts fuel consumption in half Sam Abuelsamid

Daimler this week unveiled the first of its new generation Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid transit buses. Thirty of these new buses will be going into service in 2010 with the first 10 going ...

Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid launches next week for lease only 19 days ago on Autoblog Green

Monday will see the launch of the first European-branded vehicle equipped with the two mode hybrid system that was co-developed between GM, Daimler, BMW and Chrysler. The Mercedes-Benz ML450 edges out the BMW X6 ActiveHybrid in getting to showrooms but it actually shares much with the BMW. ...

REPORT: Sagging SUV sales, weak dollar could bring Mercedes C-class production to U.S. 20 days ago on Autoblog Green

Over the past two years, sales of SUVs from virtually all automakers have sagged deeply as fuel prices have risen and the economy has gone into the dumper. Mercedes-Benz is no exception, as sales of its ML, GL and R-class have dropped from a combined 152,500 in 2008 to just over 83,000 so far ...

Spanish Basque Country gets EV recharging network alongside some gas pumps 29 days ago on Autoblog Green

The Basque Government in Spain has announced an agreement with Repsol to install recharging points for EVs at gasoline refueling stations. These EV stations would be safely separated from gasoline pumps but will be installed near already existing infrastructure. The plan was announced by ...

Daimler to open alt-fuel R&D center in Redford, MI 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

With the end of the two-mode hybrid co-development partnership, Daimler has decided that it will not completely withdraw its hybrid engineering back to Germany. Instead, the company will be opening a new engineering office in Redford Township, MI west of Detroit. The new facility will expand its ...

Two-mode hybrid joint development disbanded; Ram hybrid coming in 2010 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

The big joint development program formed several years ago between General Motors, Daimler, Chrysler and BMW to develop the two-mode hybrid system for light duty vehicles is over. With all four automakers now having launched or about to introduce versions of the hybrid system, the joint program is ...

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