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Amp, the Ohio-based maker of battery-electric SUVs, has opened its first dealership in Cincinnati and said first deliveries would start by year end. Amp of Cincinnati opened last week and showed off both its Jeep Grand Cherokee- and Mercedes-Benz ML350-based battery-electric vehicles. The ...

Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG has acquired a 15-percent stake in smartphone application publisher MyTaxi, marking the German automaker's continued willingness to invest in transportation-related businesses that don't actually focus on selling vehicles to customers. Bloomberg News reported that ...

Mercedes-Benz plans on selling the B-Class extended-range plug-in vehicle that it premiered last September at the Frankfurt International Motor Show in the U.S., Automotive News reports, citing an interview with Joachim Schmidt, head of the German automaker's sales and marketing division. A ...

Representatives for Pope Benedict XVI continue to talk to Mercedes-Benz about making a custom-made vehicle that could use a hybrid or battery-electric powertrain to make what's commonly known as the Popemobile more fuel efficient, The Detroit Bureau reports. The German automaker is faced ...

On Tuesday morning, during a media roundtable discussion in New York, Dr. Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the board of management of Daimler and head of Mercedes-Benz, unloaded details on the automaker's upcoming, mass-produced fuel cell vehicle. According to Inside Line, Zetsche told reporters ...

For model-year 2012, Mercedes-Benz will have at least two fewer vehicles on the "gas-guzzler" tax list published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This will continue a positive trend for the company, as, in 2011, 12 M-B models are subject to ...

Just days ago, Mercedes-Benz announced plans to construct its own fuel cell production plant in the Vancouver, British Columbia area of Canada to manufacture next-generation fuel cell stacks for M-B's hydrogen-fed vehicles. Construction is set to commence immediately on the 2,000-square-meter ...

The current-generation Mercedes-Benz A-Class mini MPVs and B-Class compact hatchbacks haven't exactly tallied the type of sales volume the German automaker had anticipated, but M-B is hard at work trying to change that. ...

Mercedes-Benz' B-Class F-Cell – a front-wheel drive, hydrogen-fed, compact sports tourer – is one of only a handful of fuel cell vehicles currently offered to the public by a major automaker. Before 2010 came to a close, the F-Cell hit U.S. soil with a lease price of $849 (plus tax) ...

Mercedes-Benz is keen on fuel cell technology and has developed a fuel cell B-Class with an impressive 249-mile range (you should get something for your $849 a month – see it in action here). During a media presentation at the Detroit Auto Show recently, Mercedes announced that a fleet of ...