IT Appears like an eternity given that Mercedes-Benz’s to start with present-day electric powered motor vehicle – the EQC medium SUV – appeared on the scene, debuting the Stuttgart firm’s ‘EQ’ sub manufacturer.
Considerably has occurred since GoAutoto start with drove that motor vehicle in Norway far more than two decades in the past, still there’s at last a glimmer on the horizon as Mercedes-EQ prepares to rapidly grow its electric powered portfolio
The entrée for this burgeoning EQ relatives is the EQA – a tiny electric powered SUV dependent intently on the second-generation Mercedes-Benz GLA that launched internationally in December 2019.
What that implies is, much like the GLC-dependent EQC ahead of it, the EQA is an EV improvement of an current system (MFA2 in this occasion), instead than crafted on focused EV architecture as for every the forthcoming EQS electric powered limousine.
Whilst that can make sense from a financial perspective, it does mean the EQA is one thing of a compromise. Plenty has been adjusted about the GLA, such as the front and rear styling for visible distinction and improved aerodynamics (.28Cd), but has Mercedes-Benz completed plenty of to make the EQA feel like a move forward, instead than an EV stop-hole?
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