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One-of-nine Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive goes up for sale for over £900,000 (Dirk de Jager ©2021 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) Rare supercars regularly go under the hammer at auction houses, but even by those high standards, this Mercedes-Benz is an excitingly niche model. The regular SLS AMG had a large V8 under that long bonnet, but back when electric vehicles were first starting to interest the industry, Mercedes revealed a zero-emission version of its gorgeous supercar at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. (Dirk de Jager ©2021 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) The German firm had planned to ma...

You Can Own One of Mercedes's Weird Experimental Electric Supercars Mack Hogan © Dirk de Jager ©2021 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's Long before every startup was launching EV supercars, Mercedes tried an electric version of its Gullwing monster. Now, one of the nine built is up for sale. EV supercars are almost tiring at this point. Sure, no one has brought a serious all-electric supercar into series production, but we've been positively inundated with announcements. From Tesla to Lotus to Rimac and back again, everyone is talking about the next generation of cutting-edge EV per...