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The 2024 Mercedes-AMG EQE Brings a Golden Age of Luxury EVs
13Jul By adminNo Comments
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The 2024 Mercedes-AMG EQE Brings a Golden Age of Luxury EVs

[ad_1] Mercedes-AMG unveiled its EQS and EQE electric sedans in 2021 and 2022, respectively.Now we have AMG's first electric SUV, the 2024 EQE, which begins deliveries this fall. It comes with all-wheel drive, seating for five and two electric motors providing 677 horsepower—more than most sports cars. Pricing has yet to be announced. Its body style looks like most other midsize luxury SUVs: smoothed like an innocuous jelly bean. But with high-end, state-of-the-art technologies under the hood and in the cabin, the EQE spells the dawn of the golden age of electric vehicles. Homely ExteriorMercedes-Benz is in the midst of the most exciting time in its 97-year history. It's making vans with interiors like yachts and $200,000 stealth-wealth sedans. It will soon be adding ChatGPT to its info...
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A second life for EV batteries? Depends how long the first is
26Jun By adminNo Comments
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A second life for EV batteries? Depends how long the first is

[ad_1] Global automakers have touted plans to re-use electric vehicle (EV) batteries when they lose power, but competition for battery packs and cell materials, and the appetite for affordable cars cast doubt on this part of the circular economy.An array of startups offers second-life energy storage using old EV batteries. But creating the viable industry envisioned by carmakers such as Nissan would mean fighting off competition from recyclers, refurbishers and the needs of drivers squeezed by the cost-of-living crisis. "The assumption that EV batteries are only going to last eight-to-10 years and then owners will swap them out is just not true," Hans Eric Melin, founder of consultancy Circular Energy Storage (CES), which tracks battery volumes and prices, said. "It's going to be tricky...
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Mercedes EQE SUV Aimed at Tesla’s Model Y
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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Mercedes EQE SUV Aimed at Tesla’s Model Y

[ad_1] Mercedes is broadening its battery-powered lineup with a SUV that will take on Tesla Inc.'s Model Y. Mercedes-Benz Group AG is broadening its battery-powered lineup with a sport utility vehicle that will take on Tesla Inc.'s Model Y in another step toward the automaker's goal to go all-electric by the end of the decade.The EQE SUV, unveiled on the eve of the Paris car show, will edge out the cheaper Model Y with 590 kilometers (367 miles) of driving range and start at around €70,000 ($68,000) when sales begin late this year. It's the fourth model to use Mercedes' dedicated EV platform, which also underpins the flagship EQS sedan. “It's the latest proof that we're consistently executing on our strategy to go all-electric,” Mercedes Chief Executive Ola Kallenius said in a stateme...
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As pricey Mercedes EV launched, Nitin Gadkari says, I can’t afford your car
1Oct By adminNo Comments
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As pricey Mercedes EV launched, Nitin Gadkari says, I can’t afford your car

[ad_1] Mercedes, on Friday, launched its first locally assembled Mercedes EQS 580 4MATIC EV from its Chakan manufacturing facility in Pune. But what gained more attention is that speaking at the launch event, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that even he cannot afford the car! The minister also asked the company to increase local production to make it possible to reduce the cost of the vehicle. "You increase the production, only then it is possible to reduce cost. We are middle-class people, even I can't afford your car," the minister said, as quoted by PTI. Gadkari also said that there is a huge market for electric vehicles in the country. According to the minister, there are a total of 15.7 lakh registered electric vehicles in the country. He also said that th...
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