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1. Mercedes seem positive abouth their battery know-how and it reassure the futur consumer contrary to gm that say from the beginning that their battery technology ev1 then the volt are not worth S7it. Gm is a financial institution and mercedes is a car manufacturer. The magic is in the attitude.

Posted at 9:35PM on Apr 18th 2008 by A.Brien

2. "Thanks to the integration of the vehicle's cooling system, the batteries can now operate continually at optimal system temperatures"

I thought that was exactly what Tesla was already doing. I smell another lawsuit!

Posted at 10:06PM on Apr 18th 2008 by BlackbirdHighway

3. It would appear the motivation in all this is the need to meet the U.S. mpg requirements. Where might we be had the Republicans not given in to pressure by the AAM and implemented higher mpg requirements when they controlled the Congress? I believe electric drive cars would have been more prevalent by now.

With the demand for fossil fuels and the supply available, only electric cars make any sense if we continue our present life style of daily driving. MB has been very slow to bring battery cars to market, just like all the other members of the AAM, including BMW and Toyota. One might suspect some sort of agreement between the member...huh!

I believe the first mass production of battery automobiles will come from non-AAM members, probably from the Renault/Nissan collaboration on the "Better Place" project.

Posted at 1:41AM on Apr 19th 2008 by Lad

4. "Thanks to the integration of the vehicle's cooling system, the batteries can now operate continually at optimal system temperatures."
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this isn't a new idea at all, except maybe in the details of the integration. Besides, for hydrogen & li-ion, temp control isn't that big of a problem because in one way or another that had been solved a long time ago, energy density is the biggest hurdle that has yet to be solved.

Posted at 4:58AM on Apr 19th 2008 by jake

5. "Mercedes seem positive abouth their battery know-how and it reassure the futur consumer contrary to gm that say from the beginning that their battery technology ev1 then the volt are not worth S7it. Gm is a financial institution and mercedes is a car manufacturer. The magic is in the attitude. "

You do realize what a typical Mercedes costs? And how much of a premium Mercedes can probably charge for a hybrid version of their cars?

Posted at 9:59AM on Apr 19th 2008 by jpm100

6. well despite this already BEING USED IN THE MASS MARKET . i am glad to see mercdes beze is starting to get on the green train

Posted at 9:48PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Kevin Nugent

7. Ah, Blackbird, you beat me to it! If Daimler is trying to claim patent protection for the general notion of cooling the batteries using the AC, well, that has already been done by others, and the patent might be ruled invalid. The best they can hope for is maybe a patent on a specific design for such a cooling system.

Posted at 11:26PM on Apr 19th 2008 by CM