Daimler
The Stuttgarters want to realize something equivalent to a one-liter car for a wide range of customers.
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The car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has managed something like a “small landing on Mars”, rejoices Head of Development Markus Schäfer. In concrete terms, the Dax group was able to cover a distance of more than a thousand kilometers without recharging in everyday traffic for the first time with the Vision EQXX, a fully electric research vehicle – and with a comparatively small battery.
The engineers of the brand with the star set off with the EQXX in the morning of April 5 from Sindelfingen in Swabia, then crossed the Swiss Alps, passed through northern Italy and arrived in Cassis, France, on the Côte d’Azur in the evening. For the 1008 kilometers driven, the vehicle consumed just 8.7 kilowatt hours (kWh) per hundred kilometers. A record.
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