Every now and again, I find myself imagining how all those automotive executives, engineers and product planners really feel about the largely-mandated push to move over to electric vehicles over the next decade or so. It’s not hard to think of them ruminating on one of the many iconic lines from Gladiator: Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back. Mercedes-Benz, at least, has certainly chosen to smile back in the face of internal combustion’s
