b-class f-cell Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Mercedes Benz Starts Leasing B-Class Fuel Cell Vehicles In Europe and US https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mercedes-b-class-fuel-cell-leasing-20101022/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mercedes-b-class-fuel-cell-leasing-20101022/#respond Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11404 Only to the visually-impaired it may look like fuel cells and electric cars don't enjoy success nowadays. Daimler AG has just started a pilot program of leasing Mercedes-Benz hydrogen fuel cell cars to 5 to 15 users in the US, to see how their car acts in real life conditions and how people receive them. To me this looks like a postpone of the real thing, just like GM did to EV1.

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