"I have a car" original innovative car analysis: electric, luxury, forward-thinking - Mercedes-Benz redefines the luxury flagship electric sedan with the new EQS...
On December 17, 2021, the new EQS officially landed in the Chinese market, priced at 1.0796-1.5186 million yuan. The new car is the first model based on the large-scale pure electric model architecture (EVA) platform, and it is also the first mass-produced luxury pure electric sedan in China with a maximum endurance of more than 800 kilometers, which not only enriches the product sequence of the Mercedes-EQ brand, but also makes Mercedes-Benz truly enter a new era of electrification.
▲ Electric, luxurious from now on!
136 years of continuous innovation and self-breakthrough, so that Mercedes-Benz to the top of the fuel vehicle luxury field benchmark, and now with the advent of the era of electrification, Mercedes-Benz will also be the fuel era of rich car manufacturing experience and forward-looking thinking, applied to the Mercedes-EQ brand, the new EQS is the best display. As the first model based on the forward development of the EVA pure electric platform, the new EQS has won the electric luxury market with a number of leading technologies.
Let's start with the most basic hardware. Based on Mercedes-Benz's new EVA platform, the new EQS is the first D-Class sedan based on the forward development of an all-electric platform that enables the new EQS to achieve goals that surpass its peers: game-changing endurance, a flat oversized battery pack in the floor, and the ability to be compatible with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.
Among them, the new EVA (Large Pure Electric Model Architecture) platform also plays a crucial role in battery safety protection, due to the change in the form of power, the EVA platform does not need to reserve a position for the crankcase to better model frontal collisions, allowing the new car to install the battery in a favorable position in the bottom collision protection zone.
Of course, in the new EQS can not be ignored in the battery pack, the new EVA platform can accommodate 12 battery packs, the domestic version uses NCM811 ternary lithium battery, the maximum capacity of the battery pack is all 111.8kWh, so that the new EQS 450+ version of the CLTC comprehensive working conditions have a maximum endurance of 849 km, and the other four-wheel drive version of the new EQS 580 4MATIC model also has a range level of 720 km, which is unique in the same level.
In addition, in order to provide customers with as convenient conditions as possible, the new EQS is also equipped with a 400V high-voltage battery system, in which the power can be replenished from 10% to 80% in 48 minutes in 110kW DC charging environment, and under the 145kW specific DC charging pile, the power can be replenished from 10% to 80% in only 37 minutes at the earliest.
As for the power part, the new EQS specially prepared two versions of the rear axle single motor and the front and rear axle dual motors, the former with a maximum power of 333 horsepower (245 kW) and an official 100 km/h acceleration of 6.4 seconds; while the new EQS 580 4MATIC model is the only four-wheel drive version in the car series, which has a total power of up to 517 hp (380 kW) of front and rear dual motors, 100 km acceleration of 4.4 seconds, such performance indicators have been comparable to the traditional internal combustion eight-cylinder engine capabilities.
One of the most important highlights of the new EQS is the standard rear steering function. As a luxury all-electric D-Class sedan, the new EQS has a length of more than 5.2 meters and a wheelbase of more than 3.2 meters, and the standard 4.5° and maximum 10° rear wheel steering make the new car extremely small in turning radius, coupled with the elegant decline of the front cabin and a sufficiently standard short front suspension nose, which also makes it one of the most flexible luxury cars ever built.
In fact, there are differences in rear-wheel steering and four-wheel steering technology, and strictly speaking, vehicles equipped with four-wheel steering usually have large steering angles and are widely used in overseas commercial vehicles. The likes of the W223 (domestic version V223) Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the new EQS are equipped with standard rear-wheel steering technology.
But it is also the addition of rear wheel steering technology that has played a role in "four or two strokes", which has an immediate effect on the improvement of vehicle handling effect and convenience. As we all know, when the wheelbase of the vehicle is longer, the impact of the inner wheel difference on the steering flexibility is more serious, and in the narrow road environment, a large angle steering input is usually required, that is, "turning a big bend" to pass.
In order to avoid scratching accidents in a narrow environment, the new EQS is equipped with rear wheel steering technology like the S class, and the addition of this technology allows the new car to obtain a turning diameter of 10.9 meters (up to 10°). After actual measurement, when the vehicle turns at a low speed, the rear wheels will rotate with the opposite angle, and many sections that require a U-turn can be easily passed with just one hand, which is indeed comparable to that of compact cars; and in high-speed driving conditions, the front and rear wheels of the new EQS will rotate in the same direction, in order to increase the stability of the vehicle.
In addition, it is worth sharing that in the process of driving on the high-speed road, the flexibility of the new EQS is surprising, when the vehicle is in the parallel overtaking process, the body is not only agile, but you will obviously perceive that the parallel speed is better than many models on the road, in other words, due to the addition of rear wheel steering technology, it has also greatly improved its body following!
However, in the domestic market, pure electric vehicles have been developed for many years, and there are still few models with this technology in the industry, which fully reflects the benchmark attitude of the new EQS as a luxury large-scale pure electric flagship sedan.
In addition, the sense of acceleration and vertigo that has been complained about for many years in the field of pure electric vehicles still exists today, and the new EQS seems to be to break the convention and give the best answer to the luxury pure electric market...
Thanks to the new drive form, the new EQS's stationary start acceleration is very smooth, and will not slip, the final measured 100 km/h acceleration is only 6.03 seconds, to know that this is a luxury D-class pure electric sedan with a weight of more than 2.5 tons, such an acceleration level is quite good! The maximum G value of the acceleration stage of the car is 0.62G, the actual feedback feels very smooth, and from the above curve chart, it can be seen that its acceleration curve fluctuations are quite stable, and it will not cause people to feel dizzy, which is the driving experience that most electric vehicles on the market cannot do in the process of rapid acceleration.
In terms of chassis suspension, the new EQS is equipped with a front double wishbone + rear multi-link independent suspension, and also comes standard with a continuous variable damping AIRMATIC air suspension, which is still unique in the same level.
AIRMATIC air suspension supports damping adjustment in various driving modes, sports mode support in place, with rear wheel steering technology, driving is indeed flexible; the performance of the comfort mode is also very Mercedtuous, it will give the car the feeling of floating on the road like a "magic carpet", simply put, it is to filter the road bumps clean, you can feel only calm and comfortable.
The new EQS is also willing to put down the cost in terms of insulation and noise reduction in the car, the body uses a special sound insulation cotton, the electric drive system also does sound insulation and noise reduction treatment, with the industry's largest mass production car 0.2Cd wind resistance coefficient, the actual driving quiet performance is quite excellent.
At present, the overseas version of the model supports L3 level automatic driving
In addition, the new EQS features L2 level driver assistance capabilities, including active lane keeping, adaptive cruise, automatic lane change assist, and more. And just a few days ago, Mercedes-Benz in Germany obtained the world's first conditional automatic driving (L3) system of international certification, as long as the domestic road regulations allow, in the new EQS and S level or will achieve L3 level automatic driving assistance function.
"I have a car" summary: In the face of the irreversible electric trend, Mercedes-Benz launched a flagship sedan based on a pure electric platform - the new EQS. The launch of the new car is not just as simple as enriching the family product matrix, its emergence is more like a milestone of the times, fully explaining that technology and luxury can also be perfectly integrated.
In today's new energy market, which can be particularly prominent in single aspects such as endurance, performance or automatic driving, the new EQS is more like a product that integrates all aspects of the new energy market, and integrates it into Mercedes-Benz's luxury insight into the electrification era, fully meeting the market's expectations for Mercedes-Benz as a luxury brand leader. "I have a car" there are more original innovative car / price reduction market reports yo, come to get the first-hand purchase of cars, car information!