According to the following Bloomberg News article (which was posted on Wednesday on the Detroit News website), Daimler is now accepting orders from customers in Los Angeles and San Francisco to lease the Mercedes B-Class F-Cell hydrogen fuel cell car.

The first 5-15 cars will be delivered in mid-December.  The price per month to lease the car “may be $600 to $800 including fuel.”

And the article notes that Daimler has spent about $2.79 billion over the past 15 years on hydrogen fuel cell cars.

For more information, you can check out the hydrogen fuel cell car page of the new Mercedes “Thinking Green” educational campaign website.

And here is an interview of Sascha Simon, Mercedes U.S. director of advanced product planning, by Brad Berman that includes a lot of discussion about hydrogen fuel cell cars.

Here is an Automotive Digest video of Nick Mittica from hydrogen company Air Products that you might want to check out.  He discusses educating people about hydrogen fuel cell cars.

The video was posted on YouTube in May and lasts just under four minutes.

Here is an interesting excerpt from a Financial Times (UK) article that was published earlier today:

“Daimler plans to begin mass production of hydrogen-powered passenger cars once the refuelling network is completed, Mr Mohrdieck says. He is adamant that the company can sell the vehicles at a profit – something many industry experts doubt. Annual output of 80,000 to 100,000 units would be needed to make production economically viable, he estimates.”

Here is an interesting video about the Toyota hydrogen fuel cell vehicle program.  It lasts just under 7 1/2 minutes.