The EQS' Speed also doesn’t compare with the Model S, and while Supercharging’s a killer app for Tesla drivers, Mercedes makes do with a pervasive virtual network of Electrify America and ChargePoint stations (though it does offer plug and charge capability on Electrify America's network). Against the Model S and Lucid Air, these ratings fall short with the Model S offering up to 405 miles of range and the Lucid an Air-y 520 miles. These figures are disappointing when we thought the EQS' 485 miles on the Euro WLTP cycle would convert to 400 miles or more.
The EQS 450+ gets an EPA rated 350 miles of range, while the heavier EQS 580 comes in just behind that at 340 miles. The problem for the EQS is that the upward potential doesn't correlate to range. Place your bets on the three letters it will wear, and they should probably include G, A, and M. Mercedes leaves lots of upward potential in its battery pack, and confirms a performance version with up to 630 hp is coming. Rated at 516 hp and 631 lb-ft of torque, it takes 4.1 seconds to reach 60 mph-quicker by a few tenths than an S580-and hits an identical 130-mph top speed. The 5,888-pound EQS 580 hits its stride more quickly. That’s nowhere near as quick as a Model S Long Range, much less a Plaid, but is in the neighborhood of a base S-Class (at about 5.0 seconds), down to the 130-mph top speed. It weighs 5,597 lb minus passengers (a grand more than an S450, give or take), and takes 5.9 seconds to reach 60 mph. The former’s rated at 329 hp and 419 lb-ft of torque. A skateboard jammed with CATL batteries generates 107.8 kwh of energy, and sends it to a rear 245-kw motor in the EQS 450+ or splits it between that and a smaller 140-kw front motor in the EQS 580. The powertrain mimics an S-Class in thrust, though it’s entirely from another engineering planet. It’s heftier but roughly equivalent in power, and sports an air suspension carried over from the gas-powered S. It’s striking, but not surprising, how closely the EQS mirrors the S-Class driving experience. So instead, Mercedes pulled a 2020 and gave me the Zoom equivalent: a virtual ridealong where an esteemed, very knowledgeable executive - in this case, Christoph Starzynski, vice-president of electric vehicle architecture and head of EQ for Mercedes-Benz - would drive around Germany in the car and answer my questions.and my butt would continue occupying the same home office chair it has grown to know intimately over the last 12 months.2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS first drive (EQS 450+) Of course, while Mercedes-Benz would have loved to shuttle the world's media over to Stuttgart for a quick ride in the EQS before its formal debut, the practicalities of not spreading COVID-19 across continents meant a ride-along wasn't possible. And given that Germany wants to move away from gasoline at Mach Schnell, odds are good people in the brand's home market (and elsewhere) will want to throw money at the for it.if it's good enough. After all, it's the first new car to use Mercedes-Benz's bespoke EV platform, which will serve as the foundation for most the automaker's onslaught of new electric vehicles for the next few years. This new luxury car isn't the first electric vehicle to ever wear a three-pointed star, but it may well be the most important yet. That said, few cars are quite as much of an investment in tomorrow as the Mercedes-EQS sedan. After all, a company wouldn't go to the trouble of spending millions of person-hours and hundred of millions of dollars on a new product if it didn't think there was a damn good chance customers for the next half-decade or more would snap them up in number large enough to turn a profit. Every new car is, in some way, a testament to faith in the future.
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