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Also in Germany, Mercedes-Benz has been developing electric vehicles for over 30 years. Many of the later vehicles utilized advanced sodium—nickel chloride (ZEBRA) batteries. By 1997, over 1 million km of road testing of these batteries had been accumulated, much of it in the electric version of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class car. In 1994, the company commenced its research on fuel cell vehicles - the New Electric Car (NECAR) programme. Following the evaluation of a series of prototypes, the NECAR 5 was launched in November 2000. This, too, was based on the A-Class car. Power was supplied by a 75 kW fuel-cell system that was fed by an on-board methanol reformer. The car featured a cold-start facility to remove the need for the reformer to... 

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