Electric successor to A Sedan
Mercedes-Benz’s EQ label already includes quite a few models, and a whole bunch of electric newcomers will be added in due course. For example, Mercedes-Benz has introduced a compact electric sedan that is one step below the electric equivalent of the C-class. These spy photos clearly show the new small electric sedan from Mercedes-Benz.
The Mercedes-Benz model range is rumbling. The brand will eventually stop with the B-class and the A-class Hatchback and A-class Sedan also seem to have no successors after the current model series has been dropped. At least not directly. With a compact electric sedan in the lower regions of its delivery range, Mercedes-Benz hopes to win over some souls.
Earlier in 2022, Mercedes-Benz already released the silhouette of a new electric model.
Shot in the far north of Scandinavia, these photos show a new compact electric sedan from Mercedes-Benz. It remains to be seen what the electric four-door will be called. If it’s going to be an electric equivalent of the A-Class saloon and CLA, then the ‘EQA’ moniker is obvious. That wouldn’t be so strange. After all, the low-profile EQE and EQS have SUV sister models in the form of the EQE SUV and EQS SUV, and following the same strategy, this small electric sedan could then be called EQA. The current electric crossover EQA would then have to be renamed EQA SUV to straighten things out. Something similar would await the EQC. That is currently still an SUV, but in the long term Mercedes-Benz will come up with an electric alternative to the C-class that will be called EQC. The current EQC – the SUV – may then be succeeded by the EQC SUV. Whether all that will actually happen is still the question, since recently the rumor surfaced that Mercedes-Benz would like to hang up the entire EQ label.
More sedan
Okay, back to the electric four-door in these photos. Where the Mercedes-Benz EQE is a slick five-door and the EQS is a four-door sedan with almost the same silhouette as the EQE, this ‘EQA’ seems to be getting more of a traditional sedan shape. After all, the tailgate is more clearly separated from the rear window than on the EQE and EQS.
Whether the new compact electric sedan from Mercedes-Benz will be based entirely on electric models? Probably not. The new model will probably be placed on the MMA platform, which can also handle combustion engines. That platform will find its way to the successors of the current CLA, GLA and GLB at a later stage.
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