{"id":147341,"date":"2015-11-20T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/?p=147341"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T07:28:07","slug":"mercedes-benz-glc-getting-fuel-cell-variant-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2015\/11\/20\/mercedes-benz-glc-getting-fuel-cell-variant-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz GLC Getting Fuel Cell Variant in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/mercedes\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> has revealed that it is working on a variant of the recently-launched GLC with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking with Autocar recently, the head of research and development for Mercedes-Benz, Thomas Weber said that the engineering parameters for the car have been finalised with a market launch expected to come within the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>The new car is pinned to be dubbed the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell and should be revealed at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in 2017 before hitting the market in 2018. When launched, the car will make Mercedes-Benz the first of the German trio to have a fuel-cell model on the market with it set to rival the likes of the Honda FCV Clarity and Toyota Mirai.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking about the car, Weber said \u201cWe are targeting a combined range for the fuel cell and battery of up to 600km [373 miles], along with a refuelling time for the hydrogen tanks of three minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to the cost of such a model, Weber revealed that it only makes financial sense for a high-end model, rather than a more affordable car like the Mercedes-Benz B-Class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz has revealed that it is working on a variant of the recently-launched GLC with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain. While speaking with Autocar recently, the head of research and development for Mercedes-Benz, Thomas Weber said that the engineering parameters for the car have been finalised with a market launch expected to come within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":127086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}