Mercedes F800 Investigate Car Avante Garde Pattern in Geneva
A Mercedes-Benz F800 Style was introduced at a Geneva Engine Uncover this week. As the research design study, a vehicle could be main for fans of the German brand. The car could be the preview of the 2011 Mercedes-Benz CLS Category.
Engineers written a automobile to be means to use dual different powertrains, togetherwith the plug-in hybrid as well as a fuel cell. As the plug-in, the car uses the 300 PS (220 kW / 296 hp) V6 motor-fuel engine mated to a 81 kiloWatt motor for a total outlay of 409 PS (301 kW / 403 hp). The automobile is able of running as an all-electric up to 120 km/h (75 mph), or to 249 km/h (155 mph) when regulating the engine. It is able of the quick 0-60 mph (96.5 km/h) scurry of 4.7 seconds.
If built with the fuel cell, the concept’s electric engine would be rated during 101 kW, producing up to 290 Nm of torque. Hydrogen in a 4 armouredcolumn reacts with an onboard oxygen supply to emanate an electrical current sent to the lithium-ion battery. Mercedes was not transparent about what a vehicle’s operation.
A car features the issuing, modern pattern that uses modern LED lighting with an engaging front-end, as well as the stubbed rear. This leads to the length which is the bit over seven inches shorter than the current CLS.
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Potency interconnected with magnificence:
Pioneering premium sedan with “immature” record and avant-garde design
A reinterpretation of a concept of “fascination and responsibility”Multi-drive height enables make use of of two pick expostulate systems – possibly Plug-in Hybrid or fuel cellIntelligent display judgment focusing upon “electric pushing”HMI with cam touchpad for discerning as well as accurate operationTraffic Jam Partner for increased joy as well as reserve
Mercedes-Benz‘ F800 Character investigate car is display a future of reward automobiles from a new viewpoint, as a five-seat reward sedan combines highly efficient expostulate technologies with unparalleled reserve as well as convenience facilities and an emotive pattern idiom, which interprets current Mercedes-Benz styling in line with a brand’s hallmark charge of refined opening.
The F800 Character has the spacious interior full of smart seating, handling, as well as display concepts. An additional unique feature of a vast sedan is an all-new multi expostulate height, that accommodates electric drives with fuel cells (enabling ranges of roughly 375 miles) as good as a use of Plug-in Variety which can expostulate for up to 18 miles only upon electricity. Both variants of the F800 Character therefore have locally emission-free mobility possible during the level of a premium-class vehicle, whilst during the same time being entirely suited for everyday pushing and onconditionthat the dynamic driving experience.
“You are dedicated to reconciling the shortcoming for the environment with unsentimental patron application in the erotically appealing vehicle,” says Dr. Thomas Weber, the Daimler House of Government member obliged for Organisation Investigate as well as Mercedes-Benz Cars Development. “The brandnew F800 Style investigate car combines this commitment to providing the leading innovative drive concepts with our normal Mercedes strengths in the areas of pattern, safety, comfort, as well as superb opening.”
THE peek into the destiny of pioneering premium sedans
Within the 15.5-foot outmost length of a F800 Style, all of the components of the vehicle’s fit as well as environmentally concordant alternative drives (Plug-in Hybrid or fuel cell drive system) are commissioned in the space-saving manner in a engine cell as well as a gaps insideof the framework. Each of the expostulate systems takes up partially small space for the designation. This applies in sold to a electric drive with fuel cell, which has been enhanced by Mercedes-Benz to be compress and powerful. The front end’s compress package was done probable through a unchanging downsizing of all F-CELL components. As the outcome, a complete interior space is recorded as well as offers copiousness of room for five occupants.
“For many decades rightaway, the investigate vehicles have been branch pioneering concepts into being and thereby environment destiny trends. You set the course upon the vast touring sedan shred in 2007, when we presented the F700,” says Prof. Herbert Kohler, Head of E-Drive & Destiny Mobility and Chief Environmental Militaryofficer at Daimler. “Evil features of a F800 Style are the innovations, whose growth is already tighten to a array prolongation theatre. This is loyal not usually of the electric expostulate with fuel cells though additionally of a Plug-in Hybrid, whose components were taken from our modular system for electric as well as hybrid vehicles.”
F800 Style with Plug-in Hybrid: Outstanding performance notwithstanding emissions of usually 68 grams CO2 per kilometer
In combination with the really absolute Plug-in Hybrid drive complement, the F800 Style is the very energetic expression of a judgment of “mindfulness and shortcoming.” Its drive unit consists of the V6 gasoline engine with an outlay of 300 hp with next-generation direct injection as well as the hybrid module with an output 109 hp so which it delivers a sum energy of around 409 hp. A lithium-ion battery with a storage capacity of >10 kWh can be recharged possibly during a charging hire or a household power hollow. Thanks to the absolute as well as high-torque hybrid module, in the city the F800 Style can run exclusively upon electricity, therefore but generating any local emissions. Since it additionally has tall torque right from a moment it starts, the vehicle has a same pushing performance as the car with a V6 gasoline engine even when operating in electric mode. A F800 Style with the Plug-in Hybrid can run quite on electricity for up to 18 miles. A F800 Style research vehicle thus marks the serve critical step in the origination of a market-ready Plug-in Hybrid. Mercedes-Benz will begin series prolongation of the S500 Plug-in Hybrid with the key of a next-generation S-Class.
Due to the fit drive complement as well as the CO2 reward for a battery-electric driving mode, a car has the approved fuel expenditure of usually 2.9 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers. This corresponds to intensely low CO2 emissions of only 68 grams per kilometer. However, thanks to the outstanding efficiency, the F800 Character versed with the Plug-in Hybrid but has a pushing performance allied to the sports automobile (0-60 mph 4.7 s, top speed of 155 mph). When in electric mode, a F800 Style has a tip speed of 75 mph, toillustrate assembly the needs compared with long-distance pushing.
Similarto a Mercedes-Benz S400 HYBRID introduced in a summer of 2009 as well as a Prophesy S500 Plug-in Hybrid, a absolute electric procedure (approx. 80 kW) of a F800 Style is completely integrated into a housing of a seven-speed transmission. The lithium-ion battery in a new investigate car is located underneath the back chair, where it takes up little space, creates the low core of gravity, as well as ensures limit reserve in the event of the pile-up.
The electric drive components in a F800 Character with the Plug-in Hybrid once again denote the flexibility of Mercedes-Benz‘ extensively scalable modular hybrid system. The hybrid complement can be stretched in assorted ways, depending on opening needs as well as a area of application. Upon this basis, it is probable to combine hybrid modules and batteries of dissimilar opening ratings with fuel-efficient, high-torque gasoline and diesel motor fuel engines. Examples operation from the current amiable variety all a approach to Plug-in Variety that capacitate pristine electric pushing over prolonged distances. In building a F800 Style with Plug-in Hybrid, a Mercedes engineers privately focused on improving a pristine electric pushing in civic trade. Thanks to high energy pot, a F800 Character in e-mode easily masters all kinds of city trade whilst producing no local emissions. With a brandnew hybrid module, the tip speed of a F800 Character with Plug-in Hybrid has been increasing to 75 mph in electric mode compared to the Prophesy S500 Plug-in Hybrid. During a same time, it emits usually 68 grams of CO2 per kilometer, compared to the latter vehicle’s 74 grams per kilometer.
Stretchable, secure, as well as fully suited to everyday make use of:
A F800 Style with electric drive as well as fuel cell record
A F800 Style also offers purify pushing pleasure in a various versed with an electric expostulate formed on fuel cell technology. A vehicle’s electric engine develops around 136 hp as good as the clever torque of about 214 lb-ft. The fuel cell generates a traction current by chemically reacting hydrogen with oxygen onboard a vehicle, producing h2o fog in a process as a only emission.
A components of a fuel cell expostulate are taken from the range of available e-drive modules, which Mercedes-Benz developed for a variety of different electric vehicles. These components, that are already installed in a limited edition B-Class F-CELL, can be used flexibly as well as have been matched for the variety of dissimilar expostulate configurations. A F800 Character is an e.g. of this, as it uses rear-wheel drive, in contrast to a B-Class F-CELL. A same components have been additionally commissioned in blurb vehicles, with developments here being spearheaded by the brandnew Citaro fuel cell bus, which is equipped with dual of a F-CELL systems used in newcomer cars.
The new Mercedes-Benz research car has a fuel cell located in a front, whilst a compress electric motor is commissioned near the rear axle. The lithium-ion battery is located behind a rear seats and is protected as good as probable opposite a goods of accidents, as are the 4 hydrogen armouredcolumn. Two of the armouredcolumn are located in the transmission tunnel between the passengers, whilst a alternative dual are underneath a back chair.
F800 Style with further innovations for some-more joy and reserve
In addition to the multi-drive height which is unparalleled for large sedans as well as the multiple of different pick expostulate technologies, a F800 Character features many alternative technological innovations, such as the brandnew multi-function arrangement judgment as well as the human-machine interface (HMI) with a cam touchpad. A arrangement shows many one more functions not typically found in required instrument clusters. A F800 Style’s arrangement concept focuses for a initial time essentially upon electric pushing functions.
HMI with cam (camera) touchpad for intuitive and precise operation
The brandnew cam touchpad HMI is an smart enlargement of a COMAND complement. For most years rightaway, Mercedes-Benz has been forging ahead with a development of innovative handling as well as arrangement systems. THE quite user-friendly creation is being presented in a F800 Character. A HMI section here consists of the touchpad upon a center console as well as the camera that records video images of a user’s hand as it works a pad. A live picture of a palm is presented in transparent form in the central display above the console. The user sees a contours of his or her fingers slip opposite the picture without covering anything, toillustrate ensuring which all of a functions of a now used menu remain visible so that they can be simply operated by applying slight vigour to the touchpad. Dire the display with one’s fingers generates a feeling identical to which of incontactwith laptop keys so which users know when they have been carrying out specific actions.
A cam touchpad HMI unit recognizes finger movements upon the deskpad aspect such as wiping, pushing, turning, as well as zooming, thus enabling discerning law of a meridian control system, write, stereo and navigation systems, as well as Internet entrance. The section enhances active reserve as good, since it is intensely easy and available to use and thus does not distract a motorist as most from a actual charge of pushing. And distinct conventional touchscreens, the HMI cam touchpad does not get smeared with fingerprints.
Conventional touchpad units inall etch hand or finger positions usually by the tiny point in a arrangement. Their lack of pointing creates it really unsure to come in report whilst driving, since doing so diverts a motorist’s attention aswell most from the highway. By contrast, a HMI with cam touchpad can be easily and safely operated even whilst driving. Exam subjects have reliable which the HMI with cam touchpad is intensely easy as well as safe to make use of, quite as the outcome of a transparent work of art of a palm.
Operation upon Map: Striking range work of art during electric operation
Another really user-friendly creation combined by a Mercedes engineers is the “Range upon Map” function, which shows the superfluous possible transport radius during electric vehicle operation as the 360° depiction upon the map. Should municipalities usually assent purely electric automobile trade in a destiny, the driver can establish either a electric operation of his or her vehicle is sufficient for a journey into as well as out of the civic area by equatesto of the Range upon Map function. A system provides this duty by mixing report on the stream battery charge turn with interpretation from a navigation complement.
In the brandnew handling as well as arrangement concept, Mercedes-Benz has created the resolution that provides an forlorn amount of report in a complement of exemplary distinctness. A engineers have toillustrate completed the goal of successfully building a comprehensive nonetheless easy-to-operate information and control complement for future automobiles versed with electric or tosomeextent electric expostulate systems. A further-developed chronicle of a complement can also arrangement recharging stations.
Mirror display is easy on a eyes
A counterpart arrangement of the innovative cam touchpad HMI eliminates a differences in between tighten proximity prominence as well as visibility over longer distances, thus contributing to a driver’s physiological safety in the manner standard of Mercedes. A system displays driving as well as car report via the mirror in the instrument cluster so that they crop up to be over away. A distance the eye looks into is thus lengthened, that equatesto reduction switching between nearby as well as far concentration – as well as therefore less tired – for the eyes.
New DISTRONIC AND Traffic Jam Partner further reduces the stress of driving
Behind in 2006, Mercedes-Benz introduced DISTRONIC AND, a world’s initial proximity as well as speed control complement which operates even when the automobile is standing still. A system substantially reduces the stress for drivers in unenlightened traffic, as it regulates the stretch from a car in front even during very low speeds all the approach down to a delay. With the brandnew DISTRONIC PLUS Trade Jam Assistant underline in the F800 Character, Mercedes-Benz has additionally become the world’s first automaker to exercise a complement which is additionally able of automatically following a car in front of it into curves. The complement recognizes the disproportion in between pushing along curving roads and branch, that equatesto it does not “blindly” follow a car up in front – for example, when it changes lanes in sequence to exit a highway.
A result is which at speeds of up to about 25 mph, a Trade Jam Assistant function takes care of both longitudinal as well as cross movements so which drivers do not have to drive themselves. A motorist can only lay back as well as relax – with hands upon a steering circle. When the 25 mph symbol is exceeded, a steering torque which keeps a vehicle in its line is progressively reduced to the point during that a Traffic Jam Assistant uniformly disengages. Drivers can, of march, overrule a system at any time. Sensitive sensors notice active steering movements, toillustrate automatically deactivating the system’s parallel control duty.
“A DISTRONIC AND Trade Jam Partner is the judicious delay of a Mercedes-Benz benefit and safety philosophy. With it, we have been setting an additional milestone upon a path toward creating innovative systems, with which you will further raise a high driving joy that is the hallmark of Mercedes,” says Prof. Bharat Balasubramanian, Head of Product Innovations & Routine Technologies at Group Investigate as well as Modernized Engineering. The compulsory data is generated by radar distance sensors that have been supplemented by the stereo camera.
PRE-SAFE 360° improves safety in rear-end collisions
Whilst a Trade Jam Partner heightens comfort as well as active reserve, a innovative protecting complement known as PRE-SAFE 360° further improves pacifist safety. PRE-SAFE 360° is formed upon a proactive occupant insurance system PRE SAFE® grown by Mercedes-Benz. Distinct the prior complement, PRE-SAFE 360° also monitors a area behind the car. As a outcome, the complement engages a brakes around 600 milliseconds before an expected rear-end collision occurs. A pass value of this complement is that braking the still vehicle helps forestall secondary accidents such as those which start when the car is pushed uncontrolled into an intersection or the walking crossing. It goes but observant that PRE-SAFE 360° additionally allows the driver to take control at any time. For e.g., a stop is rughtaway expelled if a driver hits a gas pedal, should they recognize that there is sufficient space in front of their car to equivocate a back impact.
Rear pivot-and-slide doors safeguard limit entrance comfort
A quite customer-friendly creation of a F800 Style is the back doors. Whereas the front doors are trustworthy to a A-pillar in the required manner as well as open far-reaching toward a front, the back doors slip back when non-stop, as they have been dangling from an interior pivot arm. Because a doors slip behind tighten to the vehicle physique, occupants find it much easier to get into as well as out of the vehicle in parsimonious parking spaces.
A F800 Style additionally has no B-pillar, creation a entire space in between a THE as well as C-pillars utterly permitted when a doors have been non-stop. Notwithstanding a lack of the B-pillar, a F800 Character boasts the bodyshell which is both intensely strong and lightweight, as well as which meets a stringent demands for pile-up reserve that are the hallmark of the Mercedes brand.
Reinterpretation of a typical Mercedes-Benz pattern idiom
A F800 Character is both the technology platform and the showcar. This research car was created by tighten cooperation between technical research and modernized engineering departments as well as a modernized pattern studios in Sindelfingen, Germany and Como, Italy. The extraneous appearance is noted by the long wheelbase, reduced body overhangs, as well as the sensually flowing roof line.
“A sparkling coupe-like rooftiles line, and in general a vehicle’s offset proportions, lend it a invogue sporty demeanour that reinterprets a Mercedes-Benz pattern idiom as well as emphasizes a sculptural character of the F800 Character,” says Mercedes-Benz Conduct of Design Prof. Gorden Wagener. “The result is the agreeable blend of innovative form as well as duty, that conveys the clarity of good styling as well as management.”
Front finish with distinctive LED headlights
A vehicle’s front end facilities the movement of the radiator grille with a mainly placed star that is standard of Mercedes sports cars. A curved radiator grille bars gently upsurge around a bloodvessel holding a Mercedes-Benz code star. Along with a wide radiator grille as well as the easily curved air intake openings, the model’s unique bright LED headlights emphasize the energetic inlet of the research car. A headlights have been widely separated into particular segments for daytime using lights, turn signal indicators, and first headlights. A F800 Style’s taillights have been additionally versed with state-of-the-art LED units which enable an sparkling interplay of indirect illumination as well as direct beams. A result is an tasteful, unmistakable, and memorable visible outcome.
Timber and light emanate the cozy interior
Lush wood surfaces and lots of light ensure the high level of comfort in the interior of the F800 Character. Occupants will rughtaway notice a complicated clarity of levity, and functional elements similarto a driver area and a doorway armrests seem to boyant in space similarto sculptures. A innovative lightweight-construction seats in a F800 Character include of the magnesium shell and the carbon essential element laminate bombard corroborated with the excellent yet resistant netting. The seat bombard additionally facilities genuine wood veneer. For a veneer process, Mercedes-Benz engineers used the 3D surface cloaking procedure written especially for the veneering of three-dimensional surfaces. This same procedure was used to emanate the timber finish in the core console, on a doors, and in a motorist area. These wood finishing pieces are molded as 3D laminated components as well as have been augmented by an aluminum core, which ensures which a components encounter a high pile-up safety standards that have been the hallmark of Mercedes.
Successful transfer from investigate to array prolongation
Mercedes-Benz has presented 13 investigate vehicles since a early 1980s. A range of innovative as well as pioneering automobiles which was unveiled – beginning with Automobile 2000 in 1981 and heading up to today’s F800 Character – offers explanation of the coherence as well as foreknowledge with that Mercedes-Benz engineers address a core issues of investigate and technology in sequence to rise innovative solutions for a future. Many systems which were initial used in investigate vehicles and noticed as insubordinate during a time are now found in Mercedes-Benz production cars, including the DISTRONIC proximity-controlled journey control, that was initial commissioned in the F 100 in 1991 and made the array prolongation entrance in a S-Class in 1998.
A F800 Style is stability this approach. Like the predecessors, a indication features important expostulate, joy, as well as reserve system innovations, as well as an avant-garde pattern, all of that point a approach forward for destiny array- prolongation Mercedes-Benz vehicles which will goon to impressively mix mindfulness as well as responsibility.
