Mercedes-Benz has utilized the boxy look of its rugged G-Class off-roader to its newest battery-powered automotive, the EQB.
The compact SUV will provide seating for as much as seven individuals and is focused at households who desire a greener different to the GLB combustion engine mannequin on which it is based mostly.
The EQB’s driving vary is 478 km (260 miles) beneath Europe’s WLTP testing regime, Mercedes proprietor Daimler mentioned in a statement on Sunday, forward of the SUV’s unveiling on the Shanghai auto present.
“With the all new EQB we now have created an iconic electrical SUV that takes the heritage of our boxy off-road automobiles and transforms this into the longer term,” Daimler’s design chief, Gorden Wagener, mentioned within the assertion.
The EQB is positioned between the EQA and EQC in Mercedes’ increasing vary of full-electric automobiles. Will probably be a rival to fashions such because the Audi This autumn e-tron and VW ID4. Neither of these vehicles have seven-seat variations.
The SUV may have front-wheel and all-wheel drive choices and energy output of as much as 215 kilowatts (288 hp). It has the identical 2829-mm (111-inch) wheelbase because the GLB.
The EQB will go on sale in China and Europe this 12 months and within the U.S. subsequent 12 months, Daimler mentioned. Will probably be inbuilt Beijing for China and Kecskemet, Hungary, for different markets.
Mercedes has not mentioned how a lot the EQB will value. German press studies say it can begin at just below 50,000 ($59,920) euros when it goes on sale in Europe within the autumn.
The EQB’s batteries function energy output of as much as 215 kilowatts (288 hp).
Daimler mentioned final month that it isaccelerating a shift to electrical automobiles and goals to succeed in a goal for plug-in hybrids or all-electric automobiles to make up greater than 50 % of auto gross sales ahead of the 2030 objective it introduced final 12 months.
Its flagship electrical sedan, the EQS, will go on sale in Europe and the U.S. in August, and in January 2022 in China.