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Green vehicle enthusiasts in Hamburg saw the wave of the public transit future last week with the unveiling of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid bus. The Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid is part of Daimler Auto Group’s 2010 rollout of fuel cell vehicles in Hamburg, Germany. The city’s public transit system will feature 10 Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid buses by December 2010 along with 20 Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell fleet cars. These first peeks at a production version of the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid were made possible ...

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Daimler AG’s 10% stake in California-based Tesla Motors Inc. represents a gradual shift in the EV landscape. The German automaker will place Professor Herbert Kohler from its E-Drive and Future Mobility section on the Tesla executive board. Tesla and Daimler have been working over the past year to blend the former’s electric drive system with the latter’s smart car design. The investment in Tesla will allow Daimler to advance its alternative fuel inventory while helping the California automaker reduce its model prices.

Tesla is contributing about 1,000 ...

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Keith Pennington of Pennington Gas Service test drove the hybrid Freightliner Business Class M2e in March 2008 and was surprised by the results. As one of the company’s partners, Pennington pushed his fellow partners to invest in hybrid trucks to replace older trucks in their fleet. Pennington Gas Service will be able to serve customers in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan with its newly delivery Freightliner Business Class M2e, a collaboration between Daimler Trucks North America and Eaton Corporation.

The Freightliner M2e is Daimler’s first foray into hazardous materials ...

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Daimler has announced that it will expand its car2go mobility program from Ulm, Germany to Austin, Texas. The automaker’s pilot program in Ulm was so successful that car2go will be open to the public in Ulm as a similar first stage pilot is conducted in Austin. The Austin pilot will start in 2009 with an initial fleet of 200 smart fortwos to handle selected testers over several months.

The car2go mobility program was designed by Daimler to spread from Ulm and other German ...


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Daimler and RWE are teaming up on a project called e-Mobility Berlin that will turn the German city into a laboratory for electric vehicles. The duo is building off an experiment involving 100 prototypes of Daimler’s smart ed (electric drive) coupe that were tested on the streets of London. The newest smart coupe was introduced to the public a few weeks ago to mark the 10th anniversary of Daimler’s subsidiary. Daimler’s brain trust has hopes that the e-Mobility Berlin project will lead to commercial production of the smart ed by 2010. Daimler’s contribution ...
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Transport and Environment (T&E) reported recently that European automakers like BMW have increased fuel efficiency but failed to meet the European Union’s carbon emissions standard for the 2008 model year. T&E noted that 2008 cars sold within the European Union used 1.7% less fuel than 2007 models. BMW was the leader in T&E’s fuel efficiency study by cutting fuel usage by 7.3% over last year’s models. While this news is promising ...
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Investors and executives at Daimler AG are understandably excited at the automaker’s lineup ready for display at the International Commercial Vehicle show. This show takes place at the end of September 2008 in Hanover, Germany and Daimler AG is using the autumn event to take the next step toward fuel efficiency. Daimler’s representatives will be educating attendees on the Actros line of construction vehicles as well as the BlueTec and Vito hybrids. The biggest buzz among Daimler’s 80-vehicle show fleet surrounds the Actros line of construction vehicles. ...
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Lithium-ion batteries are quite the hot topic in the green car industry these days. Car companies can’t seem to line up fast enough to test all the options available for the cars of the future. General Motors is testing lithium-ion technology from two companies in hopes to roll out the Chevrolet Volt by 2010 when it is also expected to produce the plug-in hybrid Saturn Vue. An estimated cost per lithium-ion battery is $10,000 that is provided by A123 Systems in Watertown, MA. GM is also utilizing the combined efforts of South Korea’s LG Chem and Compact Power from MI in the Chevy Volt test. The ...
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