Road Tested: 2015 Mercedes-Benz B Class Electric Drive - Communities Digital News
LOS ANGELES , June 25, 2015 — Not all zero emissions electric vehicles (EVs) make everyday driving sense, but the Mercedes-Benz B Class Electric Drive offers a smooth, comfortable, family-friendly ride to make it the top pick in today’s narrow... For this review, I drove the B Class through Hollywood’s posh hills and along LA’s fast-moving boulevards, on bad roads and good, on hills and flats. Going all-electric can be a major lifestyle change, which is why most two- or three-car families keep at least one petro-powered vehicle for long distances and when the availability of facilities to charge outside the garage is an unknown entity. But on a weeklong road test through LA’s windy and pothole-filled Hollywood Hills (think Laurel Canyon and Mulholland Drive), this professional green car reviewer discovered the B Class Electric Drive is perhaps one of the best EVs on the road... Here in LA’s moneyed 90046/69, the most popular EVs seem to be the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, BMW i3 and Fiat 500e. What this green auto expert doesn’t see cruising multi-million dollar cottage streets or winding around curvy “country” roads (if you... So it seems the B Class Electric Drive should get the top spot as the best EV for, say, some environmentally-conscious celeb’s cliff-hanging Mulholland Drive garage. Source: www.commdiginews.com
