Some automakers are changing their gasoline-powered vehicles with electrical vehicles. Mercedes is matching them. The model plans to go all-electric in markets that construct sufficient infrastructure to help that transfer by the tip of the last decade. However, in the intervening time, it has begun constructing an electrical different to promote subsequent to a lot of its gasoline-powered fashions.
Thus, whereas most navies sail only one flagship, the Mercedes line has two. The venerable S-Class anchors the gas-powered lineup. The brand new 2022 EQS sits atop the electrical set.
Mercedes’ AMG high-performance tuner store has spent a while engaged on the one you plug into the wall. Mercedes has now named its value.
The Mercedes-AMG EQS prices almost $45,000 greater than the EQS sedan it’s primarily based on. The sticker reads $147,500 earlier than a compulsory $1,050 vacation spot charge. It goes on sale in spring, which means nearly instantly.
It might be expensive, however it’s positively quick. Regardless of area for 4 full-sized adults, it sprints from a standstill to 60 mph in simply 3.4 seconds – supercar numbers within the gasoline period.
A pair of electrical motors sit on every axle. Collectively, they make 649 horsepower underneath atypical circumstances. Do you have to want it, although, an overboost operate pushes that complete to 751 horsepower for a number of seconds. One motor per axle means all-wheel drive (AWD) – on this case, a variable AWD system that checks and adjusts torque between the axles as much as 10,000 occasions per minute.
The AMG version comes with each luxurious discovered on the usual EQS, together with Mercedes’ cabin-spanning Hyperscreen. Optionally available on the atypical EQS however commonplace on the AMG mannequin, it replaces all the dashboard with an unlimited, curved touchscreen floor.
Different options embrace an augmented-reality head-up show, a 3D Burmester sound system, and such astonishing EQS goodies as programmable scents and a nap mode.
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Sean Tucker
