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Mercedes-Benz’s electric future starts with this CLA prototype

Those cool MB star logo headlights are still here!

The CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group, Ola Källenius, provides a limited tour of the car, in which he talks to its new AI assistant, and takes it for a spin in a new video posted by the automaker. Mercedes-Benz first showed off the CLA concept last year, and many of the features are trickling down to this prototype, including the Porsche Taycan-like two-speed transmission and 800V battery architecture that enables fast 250kW charging. The CLA has the “first full version” of the new Mercedes Benz Operating System, or MB OS, that the automaker first shared at CES earlier this year, Källenius says.

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