101 g / km — a level of emission of CO², which Daimler under the new rules of the European Union shall not exceed 2020. In this task allocated less than five years, and will have to face it all alone.
Head of Research and Development Mercedes-Benz Thomas Weber said that the sports division of Mercedes-AMG will begin to produce hybrids. This is a logical way out of this situation and, therefore, the era of the rule of the internal combustion engine in the AMG fell under the pressure of the struggle for the environment.
«While we did not use hybrid technology in the production of AMG, so that our customers are not ready for such machines. They need the most powerful and fastest cars in each of the existing segments, „- said Weber. He also said that they are going to use electric blowers and system recovery of braking energy.
Probably as hybrid power plants will be used modernized 6-liter petrol turbo unit V12.
