- The primary devoted EV from Mercedes-Benz AMG is within the works
- Set to debut round late 2025, the EV might be primarily based on AMG’s personal AMG.EA modular platform
- The EV might be a big, super-sleek, four-door hatchback
Mercedes-Benz AMG, lengthy recognized for its tire-shredding V-8 and V-12 engines, is properly on its means towards providing a various electrical portfolio.
The Affalterbach tuner already presents its personal variations of Mercedes’ EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and is at the moment engaged on its first devoted EV, a prototype for which has been noticed once more.
The devoted EV might be primarily based on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, often called AMG.EA, and is anticipated to debut in late 2025 or early the next yr. The timing suggests it is going to attain the U.S. as a 2027 mannequin.
Because the spy photographs and video present, the EV might be a tremendous glossy hatchback with 4 doorways, making it a possible electrical different to the present GT 4-Door Coupe, a car whose title it could carry into manufacturing. The 2 variations are prone to be bought alongside each other for a interval, as the present GT 4-Door Coupe was solely up to date final yr.
Mercedes additionally introduced in February that it has deserted a plan to go the electric-only route in main markets by the top of the last decade. As a substitute the automaker plans to proceed providing gas-powered automobiles properly into the following decade, and probably longer. This implies the GT 4-Door Coupe with a gasoline engine could stick round longer than beforehand deliberate.
AMG teased a possible design for its first devoted EV with the reveal of 2022’s Imaginative and prescient AMG idea. The idea was constructed to showcase the chances of the AMG.EA platform, and confirmed by AMG to characteristic axial-flux motors developed by Yasa, an organization wholly owned by Mercedes that makes a speciality of high-performance electrical motors.
Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than standard radial-flux motors of comparable output. Nevertheless, manufacturing axial-flux motors is tougher, making them so much much less cost-effective. One production-bound unit weighs simply 53 kilos however generates as much as 480 hp, Yasa chief Tim Woolmer beforehand informed Autocar. Two of these motors would give the AMG near 1,000 hp.
Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea
Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea
The automobile’s glossy design will additional assist effectivity. AMG is anticipated to make use of lively aerodynamic options and even a printed emblem just like what’s used on AMG’s Formulation 1 vehicles, in addition to the One hypercar. An lively rear spoiler can clearly be seen in a few of the spy photographs.
AMG has loads of expertise with electrical energy. It first examined the waters in 2014 with the SLS AMG Electrical Drive. It was the quickest, strongest EV in the marketplace on the time due to its 740-hp output. Since then, AMG has gathered extra expertise from its F1 program, notably within the areas of power discharging and restoration.
Earlier than the arrival of its first devoted EV, AMG is anticipated to introduce a tuned model of a future electrical CLA-Class, a future electrical C-Class, and a future electrical GLC-Class.
