Ola Kallenius, the chairman of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, proudly stated about the new innovation: "With the new Popemobile, Pope Francis is the first pope to be traveling in a fully electric ...

German company Mercedes-Benz has been supplying cars to the Vatican for 94 years, and for the last 45 years the Pope has used the famous 'Popemobile' based on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class.

Pope Francis has received the first-ever all-electric popemobile from automaker Mercedes-Benz. The open-top vehicle, which for the last 45 years has been manufactured by the German luxury ...

Show full PR text Stuttgart/Rome – By delivering a new Popemobile to Pope Benedict XVI Mercedes-Benz continues a tradition, which lasts for 80 years now. Dr Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board ...

Pope Francis is going electric for the 2025 Jubilee processional, after being gifted an electric G-Class Mercedes-Benz popemobile by the automaker's chief executive this week. "We are moving ...

The Holy Father is continuing a long tradition with the new Popemobile from Mercedes-Benz. Pope Pius XI was the first to receive a Mercedes-Benz as an official car in 1930 - a Nürburg 460 Pullman ...

Mercedes-Benz unveiled the world's first pure electric Popemobile. The term Popemobile is a combination of Pope, referring to the pope, and Mobile, meaning vehicle, denoting a vehicle specifically ...

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and that image is arguably being cemented with the debut of the new electric Popemobile.

Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first all-electric popemobile to the Vatican: a modified version of the German automaker's G-Class SUV. Some of the biggest changes from the standard G-Class involve ...