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MERCEDES-BENZ EQS AND THE EQ RANGE WITH EQXX
Mercedes-Benz has been developing electric vehicles for decades but 2022 is the first year in which a solid line of production cars, SUVs and vans begins to take shape and appear in the showrooms. WORDS TONY WHITNEY PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF MERCEDES
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he EQ subbrand badge will be appearing on everything from commercial vehicles to tiny Smart models with lots of very desirable cars, crossovers and SUVs in between. We’ll focus on the spacious and elegant EQS, which is intended to be an electric equivalent of the long-running S-Class large luxury saloon.
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While the S-Class models have mainly been associated with V-8 and even V-12 petrol engines, Mercedes has a fairly lengthy history with electrified saloons and introduced a hybrid S back in 2013. There’s been a hybrid model in the range ever since, but the 2022 EQS is all-new and bears almost no design or engineering relationship to the current S-Class
