Mercedes-Benz, one of
the most famous car manufacturing companies, was founded in 1881 by
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. Daimler was a visionary and an
inventor, he created the first four wheel automobile and the first high
speed engine using petrol as fuel. Daimler had a lifelong business
partner, Wilhelm Mayerbach, who was also an inventor and who helped
Daimler create the first ever motorcycle. The fusion with Karl Benz's
Benz & Cie., happened years after Gottlieb Daimler's death. Karl
Friedrich Benz, on the other hand, was less of an inventor, although he
is considered the inventor of the gasoline powered automobile, but an
engine designer and automobile engineer. He was smart enough to patent
all of his work immediately, sometimes beating Daimler and Mayerbach to
the punch. This foresight secured patents on all processes that made
the internal combustion engine practical. Nevertheless, the Daimler
Motoren Gesellschaft and the Benz & Cie. signed an agreement of
mutual interest, which was tentatively valid until the year 2000. This
limitation lead to the re-founding as Daimler AG in 2007, which is the
head company of a huge Enterprise including the Mercedes franchise, the
Daimler trucks and other ventures, like the Smart automobile,
manufactured initially together with Swatch.
Mercedes came a bit late into the hybrid car circle, forming a research
and development team together with General Motors and Chrysler LLC in
2004, with BMW joining the Global Hybrid Cooperation, also known as
Advanced Hybrid System 2, about a year later. The idea is to make a two
mode hybrid transmission, which would use artificial intelligence to
switch between electric motors operation and adding the internal
combustion engine at heavier loads, like increased speeds and such.
Everything possible is used to convert energy to electric storage,
including the kinetic energy and deceleration. In 2007, Mercedes
announced the plans for their mild hybrid models in the S-Class. More
interesting is the new and innovative Mercedes-Benz BlueZERO concept, a
near series that is providing cars, which are using electric
propulsion. The concept was presented to the world at the North
American International Auto Show in Detroit. A single architecture is
presented in three different models, called BlueZERO E-CELL, BlueZERO
F-CELL and BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS. BlueZERO E-CELL and BlueZERO E-CELL
PLUS are basically the same electric cars, only the PLUS variant is a
full hybrid, featuring an internal combustion engine. The BlueZERO
F-CELL is the same electric car, which uses a fuel cell as an
additional energy supplier. It just seems that Mercedes-Benz has shown
here some initiative and presented a series design of the near future.

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