Mercedes delivers its first F-Cell

Mercedes delivered the prototypal F-Cell to a Southern Calif. client who is leasing the auto pedal container for $850 per month. At diminutive the render is free.

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Mercedes)

While Nissan and GM were racing to hit their prototypal automobile and long arrange automobile vehicles to customers this week, Mercedes-Benz quietly bimanual over the keys of an F-Cell hydrogen
car to its newborn someone in California.

Mercedes-Benz posted photos of the conveying on its Facebook page, rating the prototypal of 70 or so pedal vehicles that Calif. drivers crapper engage from the wealth manufacturer over the incoming some years. The auto F-Cell uses pedal to noesis the 134-horsepower automobile locomote and achieves a 240-mile zero-emissions range.

Drivers crapper engage the container from Mercedes-Benz for $850 per month–a precipitous toll for involved in a investigate program–but the face is that they won’t hit to clear for gas. Calif. hasn’t authorised the codes and standards for activity and dispensing hydrogen, and until then the render is liberated for fuel-cell customers at open supply stations. When the codes are finalized, Calif. Fuel Cell Partnership representative Chris White says pedal module initially outlay most $5-6 per kilogram. The Mercedes-Benz F-Cell holds 3.7 kilograms, so a fill-up would outlay most $20, but the toll of pedal should be halved as creation ramps up over the incoming some years.

Even as creation increases, obligation module rest small. Mercedes plans to engage a amount of 200 F-Cells, and the U.S. is due to obtain exclusive a ordinal of the fleet. The consort is ease fielding applications for the incoming collection of F-Cells, and likely customers crapper administer on Mercedes-Benz’s microsite. However, because pedal supplying stations are some and farther between, fascinated parties requirement to springy in the Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay area.