- The primary devoted EV from Mercedes-Benz AMG is within the works
- Set to debut round late 2025, the EV can be primarily based on AMG’s personal AMG.EA modular platform
- The EV can be a big, super-sleek, four-door hatchback
Mercedes-Benz AMG, lengthy recognized for its tire-shredding V-8 and V-12 engines, is effectively on its approach towards providing a various electrical portfolio.
The Affalterbach tuner already gives its personal variations of Mercedes’ EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and is presently engaged on its first devoted EV, a prototype for which has been noticed once more.
The devoted EV can be primarily based on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, often known as AMG.EA, and is anticipated to debut in late 2025 or early the next yr. The timing suggests it’ll attain the U.S. as a 2027 mannequin.
Because the spy pictures and video present, the EV can be a tremendous glossy hatchback with 4 doorways, making it a possible electrical various to the present GT 4-Door Coupe, a automobile whose identify it might 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 tip of the last decade. As a substitute the automaker plans to proceed providing gas-powered autos effectively into the subsequent 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 probabilities of the AMG.EA platform, and confirmed by AMG to characteristic axial-flux motors developed by Yasa, an organization wholly owned by Mercedes that focuses on high-performance electrical motors.
Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than standard radial-flux motors of comparable output. Nonetheless, manufacturing axial-flux motors is harder, making them quite a bit much less cost-effective. One production-bound unit weighs simply 53 kilos however generates as much as 480 hp, Yasa chief Tim Woolmer beforehand advised 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 automotive’s glossy design will additional support effectivity. AMG is anticipated to make use of lively aerodynamic options and even a printed emblem much 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 pictures.
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 available on the market on the time because of its 740-hp output. Since then, AMG has gathered extra expertise from its F1 program, notably within the areas of vitality 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.
