Mercedes-Benz plans to begin building fuel-cell powered B-Class models by 2010 to help lower its fleet emissions.
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The hydrogen-based fuel cell will produce no carbon emissions and provide 136 horsepower, the company said in a statement distributed at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Mercedes-Benz has promoted the use of diesel fuel and is developing a hybrid gasoline-electric engine with larger competitor BMW and GM (see BMW ActiveHybrid).
The carmaker will return money to shareholders in the future in the form of dividends, which will be aligned with the benchmark payout ratio, now at about 40 percent, Chief Executive Officer Dieter Zetsche said at a briefing in Frankfurt today.
“We will continue to be shareholder oriented, much in the way that we have been over the past two years,” he said, according to a Bloomberg report.
