Concept BlueZero or Mercedes B-Class Comes Ahead the Detroit Auto Show

Is that a Mercedes in the picture there? It’s surely a Mercedes! I can tell you that! The company decided to announces its new Concept BlueZero ahead of the Detroit Auto Show. The BlueZero will get you an idea of what the future line of Mercedes B-Class cars will look like.

The car is designed to work with any of the three powertrain options. The E-Cell will take the juice out of a 35kWh lithium-ion battery pack which will give it a 120-mile range, the BlueZero F-Cell version will get twice that mileage with a 90kW hydrogen fuel cell. The third version is the E-Cell Plus and you will have a 67-hp three-cylinder engine snatched from that Smart ForTwo mounted where the spare tire usually sleeps. Combined with the electric power this third version will get you about 400 miles of range. That’s with a single gas tank. Driving the Mercedes on that battery juice alone will get you about 60 miles of range but then you will have to start up that engine.

Production will start later this year for the fuel cell version and in 2010 Mercedes should produce the battery versions. Interested already? Go to Detroit to find out more!

via Press