On IAA a harbinger
The Mercedes-Benz EQE is expecting a smaller brother, an electric CLA-like that will probably be called EQA. The Mercedes-Benz EQA now reappears in its test suit.
Mercedes-Benz is continuing with its electric model range. After the EQS and the EQE, there will soon also be an electric sedan-like at the bottom of the range. A car that therefore logically gets the name EQA printed on itself, with the current EQA probably being renamed EQA SUV. Just like its bigger brothers, the Mercedes-Benz EQA promises to be a fairly aerodynamically designed model, albeit with slightly more traditional proportions. As can now also be seen, the EQA, in contrast to the EQE and EQA, still has a fairly flat ‘bonnet’ and tailgate.
Mercedes-Benz EQA (illustration: Larson)
We already had the Mercedes-Benz EQA sketched by our illustrator at the beginning of this year and these new spy photos show that it was already pretty close. The EQA gets a CLA-like silhouette, but with slightly more subtle and knotted taillights, headlights placed fairly low in the front and a fairly blunt nose. A new base called MMA is hidden under the carriage, from which we can expect high charging capacities (roughly 350 kW) and a range of at least 500 km. That platform (unlike the EVA base of the EQE and EQS) is not dedicated for electric cars and that may mean that there will be a fuel brother of the EQA. That could then be the new CLA, although we are still gambling a bit.
Curious what the EQA will really look like? Then be sure to keep an eye on the news in the first week of September. Then IAA Mobility will take place in Munich and Mercedes-Benz will present a conceptual forerunner of the EQA there.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl