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Pope reps talk to Mercedes about more fuel-efficient Popemobile
Representatives for Pope Benedict XVI continue to talk to Mercedes-Benz about maker a custom-made vehicle may use a hybrid or battery-electric powertrain to make what’s commonly known as the Popemobile more fuel efficient, automotive news website The Detroit Bureau reports.
The German automaker is faced with the dual challenges of making an electric-drive vehicle that is both non-aerodynamic – the current version has an upright cabin that fits two people – and heavier because the cabin’s bulletproof. On reason for the distinctive bubble is that Pope John Paul II was wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt.
Last year, reports surfaced that Mercedes-Benz was working on a hybrid-electric Popemobile that would be a customized version of the automaker’s M-Class and would be able to travel in all-electric mode at low speeds for as far as 16 miles before its gas-powered engine was engaged.
Mercedes-Benz sells a hybrid version of its M-Class that’s powered in part by a six-cylinder engine and gets an EPA-rated 22 miles per gallon combined. Through the first 11 months of last year, Mercedes-Benz sold fewer than 100 of those models in the U.S.
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Pope reps talk to Mercedes about more fuel-efficient Popemobile
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