Mercedes-Benz is launching a range of electric models this year, of which the flagship EQS is one. This top electric sedan will receive the EQE, which we now know will make its public debut in September.
Mercedes-Benz already has the reservation lists of the upcoming EQS on the table, but there is more EV news from Mercedes-Benz this year. The electric EQS ​​gets, among other things, the smaller EQE under it, a car that you should in fact see as the electric equivalent of the E-class. Based on statements by none other than Mercedes CEO Ola Kallenius, Automotive News writes that the EQE will make its public debut in September at the IAA taking place for the first time in Munich this year.
With the EQE, according to Kallenius, Das Haus his arrows are on the Tesla Model S and Porsche Taycan and therefore also on the Audi E-tron GT. A size smaller than the EQS, which according to the CEO is ‘in a class of its own’ and the new S-class in terms of interior space should far exceed. Like the EQS, the EQE will also be installed on Mercedes-Benz’s EVA platform, a modular platform specially designed for larger electric cars. On a technical level, the EQE will have just as little to do with the E-class as the EQS with the S-class. Nothing, therefore, the cars also get a completely unique and striking coupé-like body.
Mercedes-Benz is busy expanding its electric EQ model family. Not only are the EQS and EQE planned, but also an EQS SUV and an EQE SUV. The former must become the electrical equivalent of the GLS, the EQE the electrical alternative to the GLE. In addition, Mercedes-Benz will soon be launching the EQA and the yet to be revealed EQB. The EQB basically becomes the electric version of the GLB. The EQA and the GLB do share their technical basis with cars of which variants with an internal combustion engine are also available, the GLA and GLB respectively. The next generations of those more compact EVs will have a completely new and specially designed base under them.
The EQS will roll off the production line in Sindelfingen later this year. The EQE saw the light of day in Bremen and Beijing, among other places.