Weekend Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Revving up the past

Mercedes-Benz invented the car 137 years ago and ever since, the world’s oldest car maker has constantly re-invented itself as it drives into an electrified future. It’s likely that when the German luxury brand celebrates its 150th birthday, its model range will only be EVs. It’s a future that founder and inventer Carl Benz (who took the streets with his three-wheeled ‘Patent Wagen’ in 1886) could never have imagined. Frankly, an all-electric future is something not many imagined even 20 years ago.