Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Mercedes-Benz Museum opens new showroom

If this coming Saturday the 125th Anniversary of the invention of the automobile by Karl Benz is celebrated, Mercedes-Benz expands a day later his museum. From 30 January 2011, the new showroom Myth 6 "move - The road to zero-emission mobility," opened. It provides answers to the questions on the drive technologies of tomorrow.

On the chronological path through the decades of the space Myth 6 on hand shows five car exhibits the drive variants of the future of optimized combustion engine through the hybrid to electric drive and fuel cells. Surrounded is the space of a timeline, with over 60 monitors to inform the more than 125 years of drive technology.

As in any myth room a bench invites you to interact and deepen thematic one - whether in the micro-cinema, using a touch screen or the "Auto 2000" from Mercedes-Benz car was first shown in 1981 at the IAA Frankfurt. The vehicle is the answer to the call for the federal government for a car with as little fuel, and then threw a glance into the future.

The research vehicle offers a platform for three different drive concepts: Both the V8 petrol engine as well as shown here, V6 turbo diesel and the version below with gas turbine drive, the compound consumption limit of up to eleven liters per 100 kilometers, for that time a very low value for a vehicle of this size .

With the NECAR 1 (New Electric Car) Mercedes-Benz presented in 1994 the first fuel cell vehicle in the world. The large water tanks and other components for power weigh about 800 pounds and fill out the entire bed of the transporter. From everyday use the vehicle at the time was still far away.

In subsequent generations managed to shrink the fuel cell technology more and more. The B-Class F-CELL 2010, the first production electric car comes with a fuel cell to market. Also in 2010, the Vito E-Cell was the first battery-powered electric vans in series. It is up to 80 km / h and has a range of 130 kilometers.

The latest exhibit is the Mercedes-Benz SLK, coming soon on the market and up to 30 percent less fuel than its predecessor. (Ampnet / jri)

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