2015 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Transmission and drivetrain Problems

“This mb model has an electric motor that fails at around 35000 to 40000 miles, and makes the vehicle to stop suddenly causing serious risks to the driver if this happens in any main highway. Two weeks ago my wife was driving northbound at the fast lane of the palmetto expressway , in miami fl, when the car stopped giving no time to avoid coming traffic. Fortunately one fdot ranger was driving same way and protect my wife turning on its emergency lights while they wait for a tow truck to arrive. …”

“This incident has happened twice since we got the car on 06/25/2015. First time, driving down a street at 35 MPH and the car will shift by itself into neutral. The car will not go back to drive and there is not power to the drive system. The only way to correct it is to coast to a stop and turn off the car and restart it to continue driving. The second time, on 7/10/2015 my wife was driving on the freeway at 55mph and same thing happened again, but was put in a more dangerous situation since she was traveling in the left lane and there was no center median. …”

“Thump! Complete loss of power on freeway. Random shift to neutral issue. Driving home from the purchasing the car on the 101 southbound in the fast lane going 65 MPH. Acceleration was suddenly lost. The power train malfunctioned and shifted itself into neutral. The gas pedal was unresponsive. Had to pull over at woodman exit on inertia alone. We had just purchased the car only 2 hours prior to this incident and put 30 miles on the odometer. No warning lights appeared. My research on this issue shows that it is that same issue that has caused the rav4 EV recall. …”

“On 10-5-15, my 2015 mercedes b class with 3300 miles decided to lose all power in the middle of 101 in rush hour traffic. Luckily traffic was moving at 15mph, I had to completely stop the car in the middle lane. Put the car in park, shut it off and restart to regain power. There were no check engine light or signs that the car was broken, I just simply lost all drive power even though I was in d. It was scary as I was on the 101 at about 4pm. This also happened at another when I first got the car, please get mercedes to fix this before I get rear-ended and crushed.”

“My B-Class Electric had a sudden loss of power. Here's the details: left the house in san diego at 7:00 am. Outside temperature about 75+degrees. About 1 mile from the start, I braked slightly to maintain speed of about 25 MPH, coasted towards and uphill, put my foot on the accelerator to maintain speed and there was no power-just coasting. There was no unusual sound and no warning displayed. The car appeared normal except the guage was showing full regenerative braking while the car was coasting. Transmission was in d-auto. Power steering worked, AC and radio were still on. …”