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At the opening of the press events for the Frankfurt Auto Show, Dieter Zetsche, the chairman of Mercedes-Benz showed off the new F-Cell production concept and said that hydrogen cars would be coming in the “hundreds of thousands” over the next few years from a variety of manufacturers.

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Back in January, at the North American International Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz introduced the concept BlueZERO platform for the modular production of three different vehicle drive trains: an electric (E-Cell), a hydrogen fuel cell (F-Cell), and a range-extended electric (E-Cell PLUS).

Read More: Mercedes-Benz Fleshes Out the E-Cell Concept

Mercedes-Benz has a new hydrogen fuel cell car, the B-Class F-Cell. The car has a top speed of 170km/h (106mph), a range of 385km (239 miles) and an output of 100kW/136hp and 290Nm torque. Wow!

Read More: Mercedes F-CELL Coming to the U.S. in 2010

Mercedes-Benz unveiled its Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid at the UITP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition in Vienna earlier this month. The bus is hydrogen powered and has so far shown good performance during fleet testing.

Read More: The Mercedes-Benz Citaro Fuel Cell Hybrid Bus

When I wrote about this concept, used as a training exercise for 150 of Mercedes’ up-and-comers, I ended the article with “Really cool, even if it will never actually exist.” Well, I’m eating crow now because the F-Cell Roadster does exist as a prototype and recently went on a tour through Germany on the route that Daimler’s original Bertha Benz drove in 1888.