In Order To Achieve This Target

In Order To Achieve This Target

With the A-Class E-CELL, Mercedes-Benz is putting its third electric car on the road - after the B-Class F-CELL with fuel cell and Vito E-CELL van with battery-electric drive. The full-size five-seater combines unrestricted family and everyday usability with the latest safety technology and refined performance. For quiet, zero local emissions drive, there is a 70 kW (95 hp) electric motor with a high torque of 290 Nm. Two extremely efficient lithium-ion batteries enable a range of more than 200 km (NEDC). 鈥淓lectro-mobility is increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. And we are well prepared,鈥?says Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for Group Research and Development Mercedes-Benz Cars. 鈥淲e also know that electro-mobility will not arrive at the touch of a button. For this reason, we are focusing on an intelligent drive mix for our current and future vehicles that incorporates something more - fascination. Mercedes-Benz is underscoring the future potential of the internal combustion engine with the new S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY, the first 5-liter car in the luxury class.

The first four-cylinder in the more than 60-year success story of the S-Class - a highly efficient turbodiesel - achieves fuel consumption of only 5.7 liters per 100 kilometers in the NEDC, which equates to CO2 emissions of 149 g/km. This makes the new S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY the first vehicle in its class to undercut the 150 gram mark for CO2 emissions. Zetsche, 鈥淲e want to be efficiency world champions, and we will make it happen. In order to achieve this target, we are also doing things that were previously considered unthinkable - for example, putting a four-cylinder engine into an S-Class. With its fascinating and sensuous design and its cultivated sporting character, the new-generation CLS benefits from the fact that, as founder of the segment, Mercedes-Benz is a full generation ahead. All engines in the CLS are new and deliver fuel consumption improvements of up to 25 percent compared with the outgoing models. Also contributing to this increased efficiency is the electro-mechanical direct steering, which celebrates its premiere in the CLS.

The highest level of efficiency is the common denominator in all four engines featuring in the new CLS. All the power units have increased output and torque compared with their predecessors, while fuel consumption has dropped by up to 25 percent. When sales begin in Europe in January 2011, it will be available in two six-cylinder engine variants - the CLS 350 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY with 195 kW (265 hp) and the CLS 350 BlueEFFICIENCY with 225 kW (306 hp). They will also feature the ECO start/stop function as standard. Just two months later, the engine range will be expanded by the CLS 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY with 150 kW (204 hp). In the ECE fuel cycle it consumes only 5.1 liters of diesel/ 100 km. The CLS 500 BlueEFFICIENCY with a V8 engine and 300 kW (408 hp) will follow in April. Both of these variants are also equipped as standard with the ECO start/stop function that Mercedes-Benz will offer in more than 50 models throughout its entire product portfolio by mid-2011. Dr. Weber, 鈥淔or us, the new CLS is a design icon and technology trendsetter at the same time.

On the one hand, this fascinating automobile functions as a guide for our future design language. The new CLS also set benchmarks in the field of safety. Features of the new four-door coupe include twelve intelligent driver assistance systems. Furthermore, the CLS is the first car in the world available with optional innovative high-performance LED headlamps. These combine for the first time the Intelligent Light System already available in Mercedes models with bi-xenon headlamps with LED technology. Dr. Zetsche, 鈥淭he CLS brings together all typical Mercedes values - excellent safety and first-class comfort are as much a part of it as outstanding efficiency, impressive dynamics and unmistakable style. With the new-generation CL-Class, Mercedes-Benz is pushing fuel consumption and exhaust emissions into the spotlight in the exclusive top segment, too. The fundamentally redesigned and further enhanced two-door coupe features the same highly efficient engines that are now available in the S-Class and the new CLS. Alongside the newly developed BlueDIRECT technology with third-genera颅tion direct injection, the bespoke BlueEFFICIENCY package in the CL 500 BlueEFFICIENCY contributes to a significant 22 percent reduction in fuel consumption.

From June 2012 Mercedes-Benz will be launching the eCall vehicle emergency call system - some three years ahead of the scheduled compulsory introduction by the European Commission. The system automatically notifies the emergency services in the event of a serious accident and within just a few minutes provides them with information on the precise location of the accident as well as the vehicle model. The Mercedes-Benz emergency call system is available as standard with the latest version of the COMAND Online multimedia system, which will be introduced from the middle of 2012 in the B-Class, C-Class, E-Class, M-Class and the SLK, CLS, and SL. It will also be available in the new A-Class when it is launched onto the market. All new Mercedes models launched after 1 June 2012 will come with the Mercedes-Benz emergency call system in combination with COMAND Online. Apart from any possible mobile phone charges, the system will not incur any costs for Mercedes customers. Following a serious accident, every second counts. The new Mercedes-Benz emergency call system utilises this crucial phase and can notify the emergency services automatically in the event of a serious crash. Furthermore, the vehicle will establish a voice connection with the Bosch Communication Center within minutes. A highly practical and useful feature in an emergency situation is that communication will take place in the language defined by the driver in COMAND Online, not necessarily the language of the country where the vehicle is currently located. It is also possible to make an emergency call manually because "Mercedes-Benz emergency call" is always the first entry in the phone book. Geographically, eCall will be introduced in several stages: on 1 June 2012 the automatic emergency call system will be introduced in nine European countries - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland.