Mercedes-Benz is ablution its aboriginal commuter car archetypal able with a amalgam drive arrangement in summer 2009 - the Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHYBRID. The aggregate of a adapted V6 petrol agent and a bunched amalgam bore makes the Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHYBRID the world's best economical affluence alehouse with a spark-ignition engine. The NEDC accumulated ammunition burning is a bald 7.9 litres per 100 kilometres. This makes for the world's everyman CO2 emissions in this agent and achievement chic - aloof 190 grams per kilometre. These admirable abstracts go duke in duke with assured performance. The 3.5-litre petrol agent develops an achievement of 205 kW/279 hp, the electric motor generates 15 kW/20 hp and a starting torque of 160 Nm. The aftereffect is a accumulated achievement of 220 kW/299 hp and a accumulated best torque of 385 newton metres. Moreover, the new Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHYBRID is the aboriginal series-production archetypal to be able with a decidedly able lithium-ion array distinctively developed for automotive use. This is addition above addition by Mercedes-Benz to the electrification of the car.
The new Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHYBRID is based on the S350, and appearance an abundantly adapted drive train. This encompasses a added development of the 3.5-litre V6 petrol engine, an added magneto-electric motor, the 7G-TRONIC seven-speed automated manual distinctively configured for the amalgam module, the all-important operating and ascendancy electronics, the agent and a high-voltage lithium-ion battery.