Last night, the Mercedes-EQ brand released its third new car based on the EVA pure electric platform, and it is also the brand's first SUV model , the EQS SUV. For this new car, Ola K llenius, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group, said that Mercedes-Benz will continue to work hard for the highest goal of "building the world's most desirable electric car".
Can not blow black, Mercedes-Benz you ask yourself, since entering the era of electrification, the release of pure electric new cars, here first exclude EQC and other oil to electric models, those based on EVA dedicated electric vehicle platform to create pure electric vehicles, such as the famous flagship pure electric car EQS, in addition to the interior of the extra large screen, the rest does not seem to be too attractive.
Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan since the beginning of the release, the outside world unanimously compared it to a pure electric version of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, in fact, Mercedes-Benz's internal positioning of it is the same, but a year has passed, EQS sedan obviously failed to reach the height of S-class fuel vehicles. Similarly, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV is also facing this problem, that is, how to break the stereotype of the brand fuel vehicle to the user and release the unique logo of the Mercedes-EQ brand to the outside world.
The first is the design language of EQS, which is a continuation of the EQS SUV. As we all know, whether the technical content of a pure electric new car is high enough, it will inevitably discuss its endurance level, and the wind resistance coefficient of the vehicle occupies a considerable influencing factor in this. Therefore, Mercedes-Benz designers put the priority of the drag coefficient in front of the "face value", so the EQS sedan adopted the "curved bow shape", which broke through the styling limitations of the original sedan and became more rounded and full, but also lost the unique elegance and slenderness of the sedan.
Similarly, the shape of the EQS SUV is also different from our common large luxury SUV, and from the side, it has a crossover flavor in it. In general, Mercedes-Benz has not shown its due level in the design of pure trams, after all, its design language in the field of fuel vehicles has indeed been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in recent years. Of course, from the Mercedes-Benz EQS, EQS SUV, we can also see that Mercedes-Benz wants to be close to young consumers, because the overall style of the two cars is younger and sportier, that is, I don't know how many young consumers can afford to spend millions of Mercedes-Benz pure trams.
Then we talk about the interior of the new EQS SUV, which is still the MBUX Hyperscreen three-dimensional curved super screen we saw in the EQS sedan, which is made up of a 12.3-inch full LCD instrument panel, a 17.7-inch central control screen and a 12.3-inch passenger screen seamlessly spliced together, which can be said to be almost all the screens in front of the passengers' eyes. It can be seen that Mercedes-Benz has figured out that for ordinary consumers, the screen is more and more large is the basic hardware that high-end pure trams must have.
In terms of car and machine systems, Mercedes-Benz has also made a greater determination this time, the latest MBUX Hyperscreen system by 8 core CPU and 24GB memory to provide operational guarantee, but also built-in Nvidia Xavier AI chip, so that the car system can deeply learn the user's driving habits, car preferences, etc., so as to actively adjust the seat, air conditioning temperature adjustment and other prompts and pushes.
In terms of interior materials, Mercedes-Benz is still as proud as ever on the EQS SUV, providing 7 interior color combinations, while the interior is wrapped in a large area of high-grade leather, supplemented by wood grain trim with star logos, and interior atmosphere lights, which has the texture of Mercedes-Benz's high-end fuel vehicles.
Thanks to the advantages of the EVA dedicated electric vehicle platform, the EQS SUV with a short front and rear overhang design has a wheelbase of 3210mm despite the body length and width of only 5125/1959/1718mm, so the rear space of the five-seat version is quite spacious, and the luxury configuration is also very rich. However, the third row of space of the seven-seat version of the model is still a bit cramped from the pictures shown by the Mercedes-Benz official, but the specific riding experience still has to wait for the real car to come out to judge.
In terms of power, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV is available in 450+ rear-drive single-motor version and 580 4MATIC four-wheel drive version (front and rear dual motors) two models, the maximum power is 265kW and 400kW, the peak torque is 568N·m and 858N·m, and both are equipped with a battery pack with a capacity of 107.8kWh, so the 450+ rear-drive version of the model has a cruising range of 660km under WLTP conditions.
In general, the appearance of the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV is more homogeneous, and as a large SUV, it does not show the aura it should have. In the interior part of Mercedes-Benz, the new car is still more attractive, whether it is luxurious materials, or a sufficiently intelligent car machine system, EQS SUV is finally catching up with the new car-making forces. In terms of power and endurance, Mercedes-Benz is the same as other German car companies to a conservative plan, the main is the driving texture, so there is not much stacking motor to achieve the acceleration performance of the whole car, after all, there is an AMG version of the model, otherwise how do you let Mercedes-Benz sell the car?
Back to the title of the article, the release of the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, its symbolic significance will be greater than the actual significance, it and the EQS sedan composed of a dual flagship matrix, intended to prove to the world: it can build a flagship electric vehicle. Just this "flagship level", the new forces of car manufacturing can also be built through configuration and stacking, in other words, EQS SUVs and EQS cars do not have too deeply rooted in the Mercedes-Benz symbol.
Of course, it is not only Mercedes-Benz that encounters such problems in the electrification transformation, BMW, Audi is also the same, but this is also more exciting, who in the BBA can take the lead in breaking through and tearing off the label of "mediocrity" in the field of pure electricity?