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Sonntag, 14.November 2010Driving comfort is a classic Mercedes area of expertise. One of the most important innovations of recent times was the world’s first actively controlled suspension system, Active Body Control ABC, which was introduced by Mercedes-Benz in the CL coupe in 1999.
The system reduces body vibrations caused by bouncing and rolling movements when cornering or [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: Operating comfort – Intelligent Systems and Solutions Improve Drivers’ Physiological Well-being
Samstag, 13.November 2010At Mercedes-Benz, maximum comfort means much more than pleasant driving and high-quality features. All of our comfort solutions are intended to improve the driver´s condition and to consistently relieve driving strain by means of many individual measures that are painstakingly coordinated with one another.
Operating comfort, ergonomics, air conditioning, low noise levels, handling properties, and [...]
30 Years oft he Airbag
Freitag, 12.November 2010An air padded cushion protecting against an impact. The airbag celebrates ist 30th birthday. With ist series production in 1980 Mercedes-Benz revolutionized occupants safety on all roads.
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Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: Driving Simulation Center – Digital Prototypes on Digital Roads
Donnerstag, 11.November 2010The new Mercedes-Benz Driving Simulation Center brings together the world’s most advanced facilities of their kind. Over a period of five years, Mercedes-Benz is investing €160 million in the infrastructure, the driving simulator, and the climate and wind tunnels. This will result in direct benefits for the customers of the brand.
Using digital prototypes created with [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: The Mercedes-Benz development strategy – Innovation: The Key to Success
Mittwoch, 10.November 2010Innovation has always been the key to success for automakers, and it will be even more important in the future. Without the courage to launch new ideas there would not be any automobiles, and without a capacity for innovation there would be no progress. Mercedes-Benz is the inventor of the automobile, and it continues to [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: New Ideas for the Mobility of Today and Tomorrow
Montag, 8.November 2010What will the cars of tomorrow look like? And how will people’s mobility requirements develop in the future? The development experts at Daimler and Mercedes-Benz find answers to basic questions like these with the help of such activities as market research and customer feedback, technology monitoring, and futurology research.
The company can look back on [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: “Room for free and creative thinking”
Donnerstag, 28.Oktober 2010With more than 80,000 patent applications in the space of around 125 years, Mercedes-Benz has defined automotive progress more broadly and sustainably than any other vehicle maker.
Dedicated processes ensure that many of these ideas are turned into reality at Daimler and Mercedes-Benz. In 2009, too, the company made more initial patent submissions than any [...]
New driving simulator taken into operation in Sindelfingen: Investment in cutting-edge technologies
Mittwoch, 6.Oktober 2010Prof. Dr. Peter Frankenberg, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Science, Research and Art, and Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management responsible for Group Research and Head of Development, Mercedes-Benz Cars, ceremoniously opened the new Daimler AG driving simulator in Sindelfingen with a virtual excursion. The first milestone in the expansion of the Mercedes-Benz Technology [...]
Mercedes-Benz automobiles and research cars with electric drive: A longstanding tradition of electric drive systems
Samstag, 18.September 2010The first Mercedes electric car, the “Electrique”, could be seen on the roads in Austria at the turn of the twentieth century. However, electric drive systems could not compete with the internal combustion engine in terms of power and range. Intensive Mercedes-Benz research into solutions for locally emission-free mobility since the 1970s has yielded a [...]
DriveLab: BlueDIRECT Engines
Donnerstag, 22.Juli 2010Econominal and viable fort he future: The new BlueDIRECT engines from Mercedes-Benz set new standards in efficiency and dynamics.
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Through a combination of innovative measures the new [...]
DRIVE Lab: The Fuel Cell
Donnerstag, 20.Mai 2010Water, the only end product of motoring: What seems like a vision of the future is already thanks to the fuel cell system.
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Automated Driving
Freitag, 14.Mai 2010It looks like something out of a science fiction film: On the Mercedes-Benz test track driverless cars test the assistance system oft he future. Using GPS and radio the developers are constantly in touch with the automated vehicles keeping them safely on course. This serves to collect meaningful data helping to make motoring even safer [...]
Mercedes-Benz is a pioneer in direct petrol injection – history of injection engines
Montag, 10.Mai 20101954 Mercedes-Benz equipped the legendary 300 SL with a four-cylinder engine featuring direct petrol injection as a world first for series production cars. Since then, the company has pioneered direct petrol injection technology for cars with ongoing further development and improvements.
In 1994, the researchers and engineers at Mercedes-Benz entered new technological territory when they [...]
Fascinating research vehicles
Mittwoch, 17.Februar 2010How will we drive in the future? Mercedes-Benz has made this vision a reality: Research vehicles with the abbreviation ‚F‘.
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Blink of an eye
Freitag, 5.Februar 2010How are looks created? With the design of a vehicle ist lights are a determining characteristic of ist character.
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Jatropha plant opens up new prospects – Daimler remains committed to jatropha biodiesel
Donnerstag, 4.Februar 2010The seedlings for the first 100 hectares (250 acres) have been planted. Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material jatropha in the south of India.
The company is supporting several village communities in the state of Tamil Nadu with funds and expertise from its already successfully completed [...]
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