Mercedes EQC

Hello and welcome to this month’s post in which I will be telling you all about the new Mercedes EQC, The first all-electric SUV from this German brand. With nothing more to say, let’s get into it. I will also put an image of every car I mention at the bottom of this post.

Now, like I said above, the EQC is the first all-electric SUV to come out of Mercedes-Benz. The EQC is based on the Generation EQ vehicle which was shown at the 2016 Paris Motor Show. The final production version of the EQC was exhibited in September in Sweden and the 2018 Paris Motor Show. It also shares many parts, such as the wheelbase and the seating layout, with the Mercedes GLC as it’s basically an electric GLC. The EQC is going to go on sale in Australia in October, in the US half-way through next year and it has already been out in England and The Netherlands for a few months. Specs for the Australian model have not been confirmed yet but Mercedes has told us that it will cost around $140,000.

Moving inside the EQC, you will find that the interior is basically the same as any Mercedes SUV. This meaning that you have the two massive screens in the dashboard, one being the gauge cluster and the other being the infotainment screen. Speaking of the infotainment screen, it is basically the same as in a petrol or diesel GLC. There are only 2 things that make it different. These are that there is a menu in the infotaiment screen that tells you various things about the motor and how to preserve the battery better and when you put a destination into the navigation system, it will program the route depending on how much charge you have and if you can’t make the whole trip on one charge, it will reroute you to a charging station. This feature is pretty common in electric cars but most cars won’t reroute you to a charging station, they will only show you where charging stations are, so that why I decided to include it, as well as for the purpose of being thorough. In the back seats, everything is basically identical to a GLC as you get a bench with 3 seats, a middle seat that folds down, a rather large footwell, air conditioning and some USB ports so you can charge your Ipad or phone. The only differece is that the floor is a little higher as under the floor is where the batteries are. Again, basically all cars in this segment have these things but I put them in just to be thorough. The boot, or trunk for you americans, is also pretty much the same as in the regular GLC apart from, again, the floor is a little higher as under the floor is where the batteries are. This does take away a little bit of cargo room but not too much that you need to worry about as since this doesn’t have a engine, that space can also be used to store things.

On the outside of the EQC, it looks identical to a GLC except for the front and the back. The front is different as since there is no engine there and it doesn’t need to be cooled, Mercedes has covered up the radiator grill which, in a regular car, would cool the engine. Although Mercedes has closed up the grill, there are still the chrome bars going across where the grill would be so the traditional image of the front of a Mercedes hasn’t been lost. Going around the back of the car, the first thing you notice is that instead of the traditional 2 taillights, there is a light bar spanning the width of the car which comes out of the taillights and meets in the centre of the boot or trunk lid. The EQC also has different headlights, taillights and wheels to the regular GLC.

At the moment, Mercedes is only going to bring one version of the EQC to Australia. The EQC 400 4MATIC has 2 electric motors which drive the different axles, thus giving it all wheel drive. The EQC 400 makes 3ooKW(402bhp) of power and 760NM (561 lb-ft) of torque. This is able to propell the EQC to 100 km/h (62 mph) from nothing in 5.1 seconds. It also weighs 2,425 kilograms (5,346 Lbs) and can go 417 km (259 miles) on a full charge.

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