Consumer Sugar Design presents on Instagram his imaginative and prescient of the long run Mercedes C-Class EV, which takes over parts from the Imaginative and prescient EQXX idea.
Mercedes lately revised its electrical technique and tailored it to market demand. After Mercedes invested closely in a devoted electrical platform for the EQE and EQS luxurious fashions and their by-product SUVs, that are bought under expectations, the premium carmaker will transfer in the direction of extra inexpensive fashions.
The principle precedence is to launch two fashions competing with the Tesla Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, which have cornered most gross sales in these segments.
Thus, Mercedes will drop the MB.EA giant platform and spend money on the MB.EA medium platform on which the long run Mercedes C-Class EV and GLC EV fashions shall be based mostly. The Mercedes GLC EV won’t solely compete with the Tesla Mannequin Y, the world’s best-selling electrical mannequin but additionally with the BMW iX3 successor within the Neue Klasse vary, the Audi Q6 e-tron, and the Porsche Macan EV.
The Mercedes C-Class EV limousine will arrive first, in the direction of the tip of 2025, adopted by the SUV—the MB.EA platform makes use of 800V know-how, Mercedes’ new eATS 2.0 powertrain with silicon inverter and two-speed gearbox, and can have batteries of as much as 100 kWh. There shall be rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive variations.
As soon as the electrical Mercedes CLA is launched on the finish of 2024, Mercedes will drop the EQ names, so the electrical variations shall be known as the Mercedes C-Class EV and GLC EV. Mercedes will proceed to promote the C-Class with typical engines on the MRA II platform in parallel and there’ll even be a brand new era round 2027-2028.
The upcoming Mercedes C-Class EV is already operating in exams with camouflaged bodywork and can have a size of round 4.70 meters, barely shorter than the C-Class with typical engines. As a result of the MB.EA Medium platform is all-electric, the entrance finish shall be extra compact, and we count on the inside area to be extra beneficiant than the C-Class.
Consumer Sugar Design has imagined a entrance finish with EQXX Idea-inspired headlights, joined by a lightweight strip and the rearward-facing Mercedes grille, like a shark’s mouth, with the Mercedes emblem within the heart. The camouflaged automobiles operating in exams have a decrease radiator grille, however the form of the headlights can’t be seen but underneath the camouflage. Nonetheless, we will assume that Mercedes may need taken inspiration from the design of the Imaginative and prescient EQXX.On the rear, the taillights are harking back to the EQE and EQS, however not like them, the boot lid will not be rounded however ends in a small aileron.
The impressions are usually not too favorable on Instagram, and customers jokingly ask if Geely is now answerable for Mercedes design or if electrical automotive patrons need solely ugly automobiles.We’re not commenting on the design, which is a matter of style, however in an electrical automotive, design can also be dictated by aerodynamics, and Mercedes is acknowledged as a champion of aerodynamics, the EQS having a file Cx of solely 0.20.
