Since 2009 the Sprinter has been available with the BlueEFFICIENCY efficiency package. This package from Mercedes-Benz combines various measures to lower fuel consumption and in turn save on costs and help protect the environment. And that's just the beginning. In the coming years Mercedes-Benz will further expand the range of BlueEFFICIENCY technology for vans.

In 1996 natural gas powered vans achieved series production maturity: the first NGT Sprinter (Natural Gas Technology) was launched after exhaustive tests.

Testing of the new bivalent Sprinter NGT began in 2006 and 2008 brought the market launch. A successful combination of ecology and cost-effectiveness: in the version with the maximum number of natural gas tanks and a 100 l petrol tank, the vehicle has an operating range of up to 1200 km in combined natural gas/petrol operation. The Sprinter NGT is powered by a 1.8-litre engine with an output of 115 kW. And since 2009 Sprinter NGT has been available as a monovalent variant.

In 2004 Mercedes-Benz presented the first Sprinter with hybrid drive and commenced an exhaustive, realistic trial phase. The vehicle had great operational flexibility thanks to its combination of diesel and electric power.

From September 2006 the Hybrid Sprinter underwent day-to-day trials with FedEx in the Paris area. In order to bring this technology to series production maturity, the testing of the hybrid drive was continued from 2007/2008 with the new Sprinter – and under real customer requirements as well.

Mercedes-Benz Vans views the development of battery-powered electric vans for local emission-free driving of the future as a complement to the extremely clean and economical BlueEFFICIENCY technology which is already currently available. The Vito E-CELL is scheduled from the middle of 2011 to be the first purely electric-powered Mercedes-Benz van available ex factory.

The world's first fuel-cell powered vehicle NECAR (New Electric Car) was created in 1994 on the basis of the MB 100.

Since 2006 the fuel cell has been demonstrating its practical value: during initial field trials a fuel-cell Sprinter was used in day-to-day freight-forwarding operations by Hermes Versand in Germany. Until the end of 2007, further fuel-cell Sprinters were also tested in daily parcel delivery operations by UPS.