Please tell me how that makes 500mpg or 'green'. In reality for the mums on the school run who use this, that 60 is actually 20 miles range. Pointless if you're going a couple of miles down the road. This thing will also be like the hybrid Cayenne I had for a few days - it you're making short journeys on the battery, most of the charge in the battery is used to keep heating up the engine and fluids so it can start clean. And a range of 60 rather than 80 miles means it's costing you a third more again, just because it's cold. You clearly don't seem to understand that electricity costs money too. "But even at that, the GLC could be worth its high price - not just for what it could do to save you company car tax, but in fuel savings as well, " That’s a healthy dose more than the closely related Mercedes C-Class PHEV, the Mercedes C300e, and more than double what one of the firm's compact PHEVs, such as the A250e version of the Mercedes A-Class, offers (it's close to the battery capacity of a £130k Range Rover PHEV, in fact). And it translates into two things of note: a claimed electric range of some 80 miles (which is more than enough to make this the only plug-in hybrid SUV currently on the market to qualify for a 5% benefit-in-kind rating, even in fully loaded trim) - and a kerb weight of almost 2.3 tonnes. The new car’s platform having been designed especially for ‘plug-in hybridisation’, it has more than twice as much energy storage as its predecessor: 31.2kWh. There are mild-hybrid petrol- and diesel models in the revised line-up too, while the Mercedes-AMG performance models are likely to follow along later.Ī giant-sized drive battery is behind the claimed efficiency of the PHEVs. It’s continuing to offer both diesel- and petrol-electric plug-in hybrid models, and both are now on sale with advertised lab-test fuel economy of greater than 500mpg. ![]() Mercedes-Benz is aiming squarely at fleet success with its second-generation version of the Mercedes GLC mid-sized family SUV, which has just arrived on UK roads - and, as is typical of it, is firing at its rivals with both barrels.
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