Mercedes has begun testing the seventh-generation Mercedes E-Class, which is able to debut in 2027 on the MB.EA platform and can change the EQE.
The seventh-generation E-Class, which might be provided with electrical propulsion, is not going to change the sixth-generation E-Class however will coexist with it. The present E-Class technology with combustion and PHEV engines will endure a complete facelift in 2027, adopting the design of the brand new electric-motor seventh technology that can launch on the similar time.
The combustion-engine and PHEV mannequin will proceed to be provided in sedan and property variations, whereas the electrical mannequin will solely be obtainable as a sedan.
Thus, the seventh-generation Mercedes E-Class—and the primary with electrical propulsion—will change the Mercedes EQE, which may have a quite brief profession of solely 5 years. Launched in 2022, the Mercedes EQE has not been a hit, with prospects criticizing its materials high quality and lack of practicality in comparison with its combustion-powered sibling.
Mercedes has repeatedly acknowledged that it’ll part out the EQ naming from its fashions and that electrical fashions may have a design just like combustion ones, regardless that the platforms might be utterly totally different.
Inner Mercedes paperwork quoted de british automotive journal Autocar specify that the design will observe the standard three-box silhouette of the E-Class and that the electrical E-Class may have “a really status-oriented wheelbase providing most area and luxury.”
Whereas the combustion and PHEV E-Class will proceed utilizing the standard MRA II platform, the electrical Mercedes E-Class might be primarily based on the MB.EA platform from the brand new GLC EQ, which may also underpin the brand new electrical C-Class in 2026.
Thus, we count on variations with a single motor and rear-wheel drive, or two motors and all-wheel drive, adaptive air suspension, rear-wheel steering, and 800V expertise.
Moreover, the motors and 94 kWh battery—providing as much as 713 km of vary within the GLC EQ—might be carried over from the GLC EQ. The 800V structure will allow charging energy of as much as 350 kW.
The design of the electrical Mercedes E-Class will undertake the brand new grille launched on the GLC EQ and additional developed on the Mercedes Vision Iconic concept.
The MB.EA platform offers superb situations for attaining a beneficiant wheelbase that ensures a spacious inside. The present combustion-powered Mercedes E-Class technology has a wheelbase of two.96 meters and a size of 4.95 meters, whereas the Mercedes EQE—regardless of having the identical size—has a 3.12-meter wheelbase, 16 cm longer.
With a three-box physique, it is going to be tough for the long run electrical Mercedes E-Class to attain a drag coefficient near that of the EQE, which holds a file worth of 0.22. However the brand new MB.EA platform options extremely environment friendly motors, a silicon carbide inverter, and improved battery thermal administration—offsetting the slight improve in drag.
Given its sedan silhouette, we count on the long run electrical E-Class to supply a barely increased vary than the 713 km of the brand new GLC EQ SUV.
