Mercedes-Benz EQS, the new electric car that challenges Elon Musk’s Tesla vehicles

The launch of the Mercedes EQS, the brand’s most advanced electric car, shows that the electric car market is growing in Europe.

Every year it takes more awareness of the importance of the environment and how essential it means to care for it for future generations.

The car market took note of this a few years ago and today is developing more and more high-performance electric vehicles that little by little make fuel burners forget, due to their high performance, speed and autonomy.

In that sense, German car company Mercedes-Benz has unveiled one of its best-kept secrets as for one of the electric cars it is developing.

Its flagship car, from a fleet of 8 electrics that it already designed, it is the revolutionary Mercedes EQS, the most advanced electric car of the brand and one of the most anticipated launches for 2021, which aspires to compete as equals with Tesla’s Model S Plaid +.

Its production will start in the first half of this year at the ultra modern ‘Factory 56’ in Sindelfingen (Germany), one of the most advanced car factories in the world today.

The EQS will be built alongside the new Mercedes S-Class and the upcoming Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, the two most luxurious and advanced cars from the German manufacturer.

The car will be Mercedes’ first in its new dedicated electric vehicle architecture and will have a range of up to 770 km (478 miles).

That will make it the most far-reaching BEV on the market, analysts said, competing perhaps only with Tesla’s electric Plaid, which has an estimated range of 628 km and Plaid + should be able to run for 837 km, but it has not been tested yet.

The Mercedes EQS achieves this figure thanks, first, to the generous size of its batteries but also to a greater efficiency of the propellant compared to previous Mercedes electric models.

Its exceptional aerodynamic efficiency is also highlighted, which helps to reduce consumption on the road especially: the Mercedes EQS will have a drag coefficient Cd 0.20, the lowest of any production car for sale and one of the best in all of history.

The manufacturers claim that the quality of the EQS interior and the inclusion of the new hyper-display “makes the EQS probably the first real ‘luxury BEV’ on the market.” The Mercedes hyperscreen, unveiled earlier this year, turns almost the entire dashboard into a screen interface that uses AI-enabled software.

According to analysts, the new sedanit could help change the public perception of Mercedes from a legacy automaker to a luxury electric vehicle company, “What should be appreciated by investors.”

Analysts believe that the EQS “has the potential to change investors’ views of what (some) traditional automakers are capable of in this new world of electric vehicles, backing multiples of shares”.

The German manufacturer will launch six new electric cars in the next two years, so that, in addition to the current Mercedes EQC and EQVBy 2022 Mercedes will have eight fully electric models in its range. We talk about the Mercedes EQS, EQA, EQB, EQE.

Europe became the world’s largest market for electric vehicles in 2020 amid an accelerating push to increase their adoption, with stiff penalties for car markers whose fleets fail to meet new emissions targets and generous incentives for buyers to trade-in their vehicles.

The shift to electric vehicles in Europe has benefited domestic manufacturers and has come largely at Tesla’s expense.

Tesla’s delivery volumes in the 18 key European markets fell 12% in 2020 from 2019 levels, according to the European Electric Car Report, Tesla’s share of the key European battery electric car market dropped to more than half: from 31% in 2019 to 13.2% in 2020.

Tesla controls 7.5% of the European market compared to 7.7% for Daimler so far in 2021, according to Schmidt, although the US company led by Elon Musk is expected to capture more market share as the year progresses, because its delivery schedule is weighted towards the end of each quarter.