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

 

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

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 vehicles, which share numerous parts and a standard design platform.

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

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

An Previous 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 an almost flat mixture of battery, electrical motors, steering, and suspension bits, engineers can scale it up or all the way down to construct many sorts of vehicles.

However the EQG will experience 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 a substitute 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 lately.

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“The person management of drive to every wheel gives a complete new stage of capability,” Schiller says. “It’s actually enjoyable each 4 weeks to drive the newest prototypes. I believe we’ve got one of the best electrical off-roader.”

AMG Model Coming, Too

Mercedes is maintaining efficiency particulars near the vest for now. However Schiller tells AutoCar there can 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 can be able to a “tank flip” during 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. Nonetheless, different firms stay assured it will probably work — maybe even permitting an EV to drift.

The EQG, AutoCar studies, is at the very least “two years out from its deliberate launch.”