Mercedes-Benz Necar 5

The NECAR 5 was a fuel cell test vehicle presented by DaimlerChrysler in November 2000, the fifth in the NECAR series (New Electric Car) that Daimler-Benz began in 1994. Like the later models of the series it was based on the A-Class of the W168 generation. It again used methanol as the carrier of hydrogen, and this time the whole drive system, including the methanol reformer, fitted in the underbody of the vehicle, where the earlier NECAR 3 had needed so much room for its reformer that it had only two seats. The German Wikipedia article gives the top speed as over 150 km/h. The improved NECAR 5.2 drove from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States in 2001 without major problems, and the NECAR F-Cell small series followed from 2002.