500 Club: Mercedes-Benz Expands its New 500cc/Cylinder Engine Family - Motor Trend

Thanks for posting. Glad to see an inline 6 from MB make it back. Looks like it has a lot of plumbing on it.

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Jim

I have been hearing about this 48 V dc bus for quite a while now. Saw an IEEE Spectrum article on this a few years back. I'm much better with 48 V dc than 480 V dc for hybrid energy storage. 48 V tingles you if you are wet. 480 V will kill you. Just a little concerned about the Li-Ion batteries.

Moving the large consumers to 48 V dc makes so much sense, particularly if they continue to mandate the auto start stop. I would be much better with auto start stop, if the engine started within 250-500 ms after I hit the pedal instead of 1+ second, and the air conditioner keeps working, that's vital down here in the southeast US.

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The OM 642/722.9 powered family
Still going strong
2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech

wowowow. i can't wait to see the idiot-savants that put an OM656 into an old chassis.

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'77 240D, 504H, OM617.952, etc.