Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:15:44 +0000
A decade ago in 2013 I experienced an electric Mercedes-Benz Vito meant for the Danish postal system. A limited test fleet was deployed, but after the test period, the project was terminated. In 2019 the Danish branch of rescue service Falck converted a Tesla Model X into a first responder vehicle. Now it looks as […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 18:15:42 +0000
In Europe, vans are essentially what pickup trucks are in the USA. We even had a period with double-cabin trucks with smallish cargo space that were used as private cars, before the SUV/CUV craze made them a better alternative. Not having vans from Audi, BMW, or Porsche, the vans from Mercedes-Benz are the top of […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:00:41 +0000
For the new EU Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) regulations, passenger cars and light vans are in two different classes. Manufacturers can’t compensate the surplus in one class to balance the deficit in the other. Mercedes does not have a smaller, more efficient model