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Knightrider fever as Mercedes team up with KIT

Posted by jbwan | Posted in Life in General, Technology | Posted on 27-11-2008

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Well that’s not entirely true and it doesn’t have anything to do with Germans and “The Hoff”. The KIT in this instance is the Karlshrue Institute of Technology and Mercedes has teamed up with the IT to establish a centre for research into the area of electric car development. This is a great move by Daimler (Mercedes parent company) who are already pushing the bar in electric car development by launching a model for the hi-end executive market, in the S-class range, next year. To be known as the S-400 it will be the world’s first lithium-ion battery powered hybrid car. Exciting times ahead for all those green, carbon repressing sorts out there. Read more…

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