Daimler will launch its electric car, the Smart ForTwo, in the United States this fall. The company is hoping to ride the trend train for young urbanites looking for greener vehicles in urban areas with a roll-out of 250 electric vehicles in select regions of the United States in October.

The Smart car is being distributed via Smart USA, a subsidiary of auto dealers Penske Automotive Group, Inc., headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

More than a million conventional Smart ForTwo vehicles have been sold in 40 countries since 1998. Achieving a 41mpg mileage on the highway, the vehicle sells in the US from $11,990 to $20,990 excluding tax.

Mercedes-Benz is working on an affordable B-Class hydrogen fuel-cell car that will see production, on a small-scale, before the end of 2009.

It is likely that this hydrogen vehicle will at least somewhat based on the BlueZero concept (pictured above) that was revealed to a lot of interest earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show.

Also, around the same time, Mercedes-Benz plans to build some Smart Fortwo hatchbacks for testing in the e-mobility Berlin project – what they are calling “the largest electric car field test in the world.”