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Mercedes-Benz will reportedly drop the electrical EQE sedan and associated EQE SUV in 2026, abandoning earlier plans for a mid-life facelift for each because it revises its electrical automobile (EV) technique.
Autocar stories the 2 electrical fashions will probably be not directly, briefly changed by the upcoming electrical Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan – caught testing final month – and GLC EV.
Mercedes-Benz is but to formally verify the top of manufacturing for the EQE pair, which in Australia have seen reductions of just about $70,000 alongside the associated EQS and EQS SUV.
A brand new electrical E-Class is about to be launched in 2027, with no alternative for the EQE SUV anticipated.
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The brand new EQ Know-how fashions will use the automaker’s new, 800V MB.EA-M electrical structure and a repositioned flat battery pack for improved packaging, with speedy charging at speeds of as much as 320kW providing 400km vary in quarter-hour.
The German model has confirmed it is going to drop its earlier EQ naming conference for its EVs, which means the 2 new fashions will probably be badged because the ‘C-Class with EQ Know-how’ and ‘GLC with EQ Know-how’.
Neither have been formally confirmed but for Mercedes-Benz Australia showrooms.
Mercedes-Benz can be transferring to a “coherent design language” throughout its portfolio, which can see its EVs extra carefully resemble its combustion-powered autos.
That’s in stark distinction with the EQE and EQE SUV, which have a way more rounded, amorphous design language than the likes of the C-Class, E-Class and GLE.
Displaying a teaser in early August, Mercedes-Benz has already introduced the GLC EQ’s deliberate reveal for this month’s Munich motor present, beginning on September 7.
It should face off arch-rival BMW because it pulls the covers of the primary of its ‘Neue Klasse’ technology of autos, the 2026 iX3 SUV – a direct competitor to the GLC EQ SUV.
The GLC EQ is predicted in Australian showrooms someday in 2026 or early 2027, with the C-Class EQ sedan additionally anticipated to go on sale in 2027.
Particulars launched thus far – together with on a prototype drive attended by CarExpert – revealed the GLC EQ will supply each lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) batteries.
Claimed vary is greater than 800km (WLTP), outdoing the already spectacular 626km vary provided by the EQE300 presently in Australian showrooms.
The brand new platform can even introduce a brand new MB.OS (Mercedes-Benz working system) ‘tremendous mind’ for on-board infotainment, with synthetic intelligence (AI) help, in addition to the automobile’s superior driver help programs (ADAS).
The transfer comes after Mercedes-Benz revised its EV technique, having been outsold by round two-to-one within the world EV gross sales battle by BMW in 2024.
Final 12 months, Mercedes-Benz softened its goal for EVs to account for 50 per cent of its world gross sales, transferring the goalposts from 2025 to 2030. That 2030 goal additionally now consists of plug-in hybrids, too.
It additionally admitted key errors in its electrification efforts, saying it misplaced prospects in transferring the Mercedes-AMG C63 from a V8 to a four-cylinder plug-in hybrid, whereas an nameless firm govt reportedly described its electrical G-Class as “an entire flop”.
Final month, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius advised a German newspaper the European automobile trade is dealing with “collapse” if the European Union’s deliberate 2035 ban on the sale of recent inside combustion engine-powered autos goes forward.
The EQE and EQE SUV entered manufacturing in 2022, sharing Mercedes-Benz’s Electrical Car Structure (EVA) with the bigger EQS and EQS SUV.
None have been big sellers for the three-pointed star model. It paused gross sales of all of those within the US earlier this 12 months because of sluggish gross sales, whereas in Australia it has rolled out important reductions on present inventory.
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