YouTube channel Automotive Spy Media has featured a brief video of the upcoming Mercedes C-Class electrical performing winter testing.
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The video exhibits an virtually fully camouflaged automobile, however you’ll be able to nonetheless see some particulars. The entrance grille is pushed ahead and is completely vertical, framed by slim headlights, the entrance and rear consoles are fairly quick, and the bonnet is lengthy. Additionally, the waistline is excessive, and the aspect home windows are fairly slender. Surprisingly, the outside door handles are basic and never hidden within the physique, and the outside mirrors are mounted on the fenders. The curved roof ends with a flat rear window and a small spoiler built-in into the trunk lid.
MB.EA platform will substitute EVA II structure
The electrical Mercedes C-Class might be based mostly on the MB.EA platform, which replaces the EVA II platform used within the EQE and EQS. MB.EA is a devoted electrical platform that can underpin all of Mercedes’ mid-size, giant, and luxury-class fashions to be launched after 2025. The brand new MB.EA platform makes use of a modular construction, standardized batteries, and fashions based mostly on MB.EA will initially be produced in Bremen, Germany, and Kecsemet, Hungary.
The MB.EA platform runs on 800V know-how, the eATS 2.0 propulsion system comes from the EQXX idea, and the inverter with silicon carbide reduces switching losses.
The longer term electrical C-Class might be round 4.70 meters lengthy and barely shorter than the present C-Class.There might be variations with one motor on the rear axle or with two motors and an electrical all-wheel drive. Not like different Mercedes electrical fashions, the AMG variations will use a special platform, referred to as AMG.EA, which relies, amongst different issues, on Yasa axial-flow motors, which give superior dynamic efficiency.
Virtually nothing is thought in regards to the inside, however it’s doable that the long run Mercedes C-Class electrical will undertake the slender full-width show of the EQXX idea relatively than the portrait show of the present C-Class. However these are simply speculations for now.
EQ will dissapear, the title might be merely Mercedes C-Class electrical
In line with unconfirmed rumors, the brand new electrical Mercedes C-Class won’t be referred to as the EQC and the by-product SUV won’t carry the EQC SUV title both. It appears to be like like Mercedes will drop the EQC title, and the upcoming C-Class Electrical and GLC Electrical will merely be referred to as C-Class EV and GLC EV.
The primary mannequin that can not carry the EQ title would be the new Mercedes CLA which is able to debut within the fall of 2024 and might be referred to as the Mercedes CLA electrical.
