![]() 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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