By 2022, it should be in every series of Mercedes give an electrified variant, has CEO Dieter Zetsche on the last IAA announced. The Stuttgart-based company is preparing for the implementation: the next electrical Mercedes is in work.
January 15, 2019, 11:30 am,
Werner Pluta
Electric compact class Mercedes EQA (symbol): technically similar to the EQB
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Another electric car from Stuttgart: Mercedes is planning another compact SUV, which will be presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in late summer. The vehicle will be available with both combustion and electric drive.
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As a combustor, the car will carry the name GLB and be of the size between the GLA and GLC models. The electric version will be part of EQ Series and should bear the name EQB.
The vehicle will be there according to information from the German journal Auto Motor und Sport in several versions. The basic version has a motor with a capacity of 150 kW and a battery with a capacity of 60 kWh. The range should be more than 400 km.
Drive and battery can be varied
In addition, there should be the drive with 200 kW and 250 kW. The battery can be increased in steps up to a capacity of 110 kWh.
The EQB becomes the second electric SUV from Mercedes the EQC presented in September, the electric variant of the GLC. Technically, the EQB but should rather be similar to the compact class EQA. The concept for the EQA had Mercedes presented at the IAA 2017,
The Mercedes EQB is expected to be available in 2020. By the year 2022, every Mercedes model should also available in at least one electrified variant his. Overall, the Stuttgart group wants over 50 electrified vehicles, so hybrid vehicles and electric cars, bring in the coming years on the market.
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