With the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV introduction, we see the latest department on the rising tree of absolutely electrical EQx automobiles. As one can count on of an S-Class Mercedes, the EQS is huge. It appears under no circumstances something just like the modern, elegant EQS saloon of which I wrote a 1st impression evaluate.
I visited a seller to take some footage of the EQB for my introduction of it, wanted for the lengthy checklist of our European Automobile of the Yr competitors (coming). I parked beside a huge wagon. Strolling previous it, I seen it did have the nostril of a BEV. So, I finished in my tracks and seemed on the mannequin identify and classification. It was an EQS 450+ SUV. I didn’t know they’d arrived but.
It doesn’t look too huge on this image, however it’s. Picture of Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV by Maarten Vinkhuyzen | CleanTechnica.
Picture of Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV by Maarten Vinkhuyzen | CleanTechnica.
Specs from EV-Database.org:
- Battery — 108.4 kWh, with about 308 miles of vary.
- Motor — 265 kW and 568 Nm, rear-wheel drive.
- Charging — 207 kW DC and 11 kW AC.
- Euro NCAP — 5 stars (*****)
- Size * Width * Peak — 201.7” * 77.1” * 67.6”
- High velocity — 210 km/h or 130 mph, no matter you like.
- The costs of the completely different configurations and trim ranges are from €120,000 to €167,000. These costs embrace taxes and all related supply and registration prices. However Mercedes-Benz has some good choices you would possibly wish to contemplate. My guess is that choosing choices can enhance the value by as much as 50%.
It’s a three-row SUV in the identical class because the NIO ES8, one other big I drove in Oslo, and the Vinfast VF9 from Vietnam. The extra conventional competitors is within the Volvo EX90 and the Tesla Mannequin X.
In my view, they’re all too huge for our dense European inside cities, however excellent to journey Route 66 by the countless American prairies — one thing that’s on my bucket checklist, however not on the highest of it.
I choose to purchase a home for a similar cash that’s requested for these automobiles. However if you end up available in the market for these, you most likely are available in the market for a house in a really completely different value class.
The problem of a three-row configuration is all the time entry to the third row. Extensive sliding doorways and folding second-row seats are essentially the most used resolution. Not so on this car. It has regular rear seat doorways. Half of the second row slides ahead, as does the first-row seat in entrance of it, then the second-row seat folds its backrest ahead — all fully automated.
The third row might be folded flat, making a really huge flooring within the trunk for additional cargo area.
For driver and entrance seat passenger, it appears very like the EQS that I reviewed, and I think it affords the identical stage of leisurely luxurious whereas driving it.
For testing the second and third row, I would like some check dummies. I’m desirous about utilizing my and my brother’s youngsters for that function.
Talking of brothers, the EQS’s “little” brother can be arriving available on the market. The EQE SUV is simply thought of little in comparison with the EQS SUV. In all different settings, it’s a huge automobile. For our US readers, use this hyperlink to to see what Mercedes-Benz has to supply in its EQx line of absolutely electrical autos. Than go to your native seller and together with your fist on the desk and demand motion.
Doesn’t look particular, till you sit in it. Picture of Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV by Maarten Vinkhuyzen | CleanTechnica.
Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV third-row seats flattened to increase the trunk flooring. With second row flat you’ve got a critical cargo van. Picture by Maarten Vinkhuyzen | CleanTechnica.
Picture of Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV by Maarten Vinkhuyzen | CleanTechnica.
Picture by of Maarten Vinkhuyzen | CleanTechnica.
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