On day 39 of the circumnavigation, the F-CELL World Drive embarked on the tenth leg, which leads north through the coastal state of California. The route takes the participants through San Francisco as well as to the Californian capital Sacramento. During this leg, the vehicles cover a total of 950 kilometers. By staging local activities,

Near the tail-end last January, Mercedes-Benz kicked-off the F-Cell World Drive–taking 3 B-Class F-Cell vehicles on a trip around the globe in 5 legs on hydrogen power. With the US part of the fifth leg slated to start on February 25, Linde North America has proclaimed that it is the one that will help power

As part of the ceremony to mark the 125th birthday of the invention of the motor car on 29 January in Stuttgart, German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, fired the symbolic starting shot for the Mercedes-Benz F-CELL World Drive. Setting out from Stuttgart

Driving around in an alternative-fuel automobile is a cool thing nowadays, specially with the increased collective consciousness towards all things green. Come the end of this month, Mercedes-Benz will flag off a B-Class F-Cell on a historic long-distance journey. Projected to last 125 days, the epic journey aims to demonstrate that hydrogen-powered cars can travel

As everyone on the Intenet now knows, Mercedes-Benz gave license to a team of bright young engineers to shoehorn a V8 into a B-Class. Everyone who saw the pictures asked about a video and Mercedes-Benz has now kindly obliged us with a clip of this unique B-Class doing a burnout and launching itself down a

One of Mercedes-Benz’s partners in China, the Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp., has blatantly copied the design of Mercedes-Benz’s B-Class. Beijing Automotive, or BAIC, as it is known by its short name, had already bought the intellectual rights for other cars, notably the Saab 9-5 and some 9-3 models. These are old designs, however, and

Mercedes-Benz must really be loaded with whiz kids and geniuses. Can you imagine that a group of 12 apprentices were able to create a new Mercedes-Benz B55 B-Class wagon? That’s exactly what they did, taking an honest-to-goodness B200 CDI and turning it to what looks like a production-ready unit. This one-off B-Class is powered by