Mercedes-Benz EQG: Electrical G-Class Will Differ from Different MB EVs

 

Many of the auto business has now settled on a reasonably predictable formulation for constructing electrical automobiles. That features Mercedes-Benz, which has a fleet of electrical automobiles (EVs) on the way in which that shares most traits and plenty of components.

The corporate plans to go all-electric in most markets by 2030. To get there, it’s constructing electrical equivalents to a lot of its gas-powered automobiles, which share numerous parts and a standard design platform.

However off-roaders are a special engineering problem — Mercedes has only one legendary off-road car, the G-Class. The storied German automaker has realized that as a way to construct an electrical equal, it is going to want a special formulation.

CEO Emmerich Schiller tells the U.Ok.’s AutoCar that this implies the upcoming Mercedes-Benz EQG is not going to share a platform with different electrical Mercedes fashions.

An Outdated G-Wagen Platform, A New G-Wagen Gas Supply

Most Mercedes EVs, just like the EQE sedan, EQE SUV, EQS sedan, and EQS SUV, are constructed on a standard skateboard platform. As a virtually flat mixture of battery, electrical motors, steering, and suspension bits, engineers can scale it up or right down to construct many kinds of automobiles.

However the EQG will journey on a modified model of the metal ladder-frame chassis that makes the gas-powered G-Class such a succesful off-roader. “As with the internal-combustion-engine fashions, the physique is linked to the ladder body at eight factors,” Schiller says.

Different Mercedes EVs use one or two electrical motors hooked up to the axles. The EQG will as an alternative use 4 motors, one powering every wheel.

That’s the identical strategy used within the Rivian R1T, one of many extra succesful off-roaders we’ve examined in recent times.

Kelley Blue Ebook guardian firm Cox Automotive is a minority investor in Rivian.

“The person management of drive to every wheel gives a complete new degree of means,” Schiller says. “It’s actually enjoyable each 4 weeks to drive the newest prototypes. I feel we’ve the perfect electrical off-roader.”

AMG Model Coming, Too

Mercedes is retaining efficiency particulars near the vest for now. However Schiller tells AutoCar there shall be a number of fashions with various energy ranges. They’ll embody a flagship AMG mannequin.

There was one element Schiller would reveal — the electrical G-Class shall be able to a “tank flip” by which the entrance wheels flip a technique and the rear wheels one other, letting it flip with out shifting ahead or backward. That is also just like the Rivian.

Mercedes will seal the battery to permit fording by way of deep water, he says. That strategy has confirmed problematic for some off-roaders. Nevertheless, different firms stay assured it may well work — maybe even permitting an EV to drift.

The EQG, AutoCar stories, is not less than “two years out from its deliberate launch.”