Mercedes-Benz EQE, EQS 450 delayed for Australia

Mercedes-Benz prospects in Australia eager for the EQE and EQS 450 electrical sedans might want to wait a bit longer than anticipated.

The trio will contact down regionally early in 2023, a Mercedes-Benz Australia spokesperson has confirmed, somewhat than late in 2022 as initially deliberate.

“We had been hoping for another vehicles to drop this 12 months, they usually’re not going to make it in time,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“EQE, EQS 450, and we had been hoping for C43 as effectively. They’re going to dip into the primary half of [2023].”

The EQE was initially slated to the touch down within the second half of 2022. Our fashions can be sourced from a soon-to-be local weather impartial manufacturing unit in Bremen, Germany, and Australian patrons may have entry to the EQE 350 and AMG EQE 53.

The previous packs a 90kWh lithium-ion battery and a rear-mounted motor with 215kW of energy and 565Nm of torque, and as much as 660km of vary on the WLTP take a look at cycle.

Armed with as much as 505kW of energy and 1000Nm of torque, the EQE 53 is placing out numbers effectively past what you’d affiliate with AMG 63 fashions. Its lithium-ion battery pack is sweet for as much as 518km of driving on the WLTP take a look at cycle.

The EQS 450 is larger once more than the EQE, and packs a rear-mounted motor making 245kW of energy and 568Nm of torque. The 107.8kWh lithium-ion battery pack is sweet for a claimed vary of 780km on the WLTP take a look at cycle.

It can be a part of the prevailing Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 which affords 484kW and 950Nm, and a 580km vary from the identical battery.

Once they arrive, the EQE and fewer highly effective EQS will be a part of the EQA, EQB, and EQC SUVs within the rising Mercedes-Benz electrical vary regionally. The EQE SUV and EQS SUV are additionally certain for Australia.

A spokesperson for Mercedes-Benz instructed CarExpert demand for electrical autos remains to be outstripping provide Down Underneath, led by the EQA.

“All of our EQA and B inventory could be very comparable, in the best way that every part that lands will transfer fairly shortly,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“Although we’re eager for extra inventory, there are different markets over the world who persistently, over time, possibly promote extra EVs – however we’re preventing that battle to see if we are able to get extra,” they mentioned.