Mercedes’ EQS sedan is wonderful. It’s acquired an unbelievable inside, wonderful efficiency and construct high quality that ought to make the parents constructing vehicles in Fremont brazenly weep. In fact, suppository-shaped sedans aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, and for these people, Mercedes is doing an SUV model, which simply began manufacturing in Alabama, in response to an announcement made by Mercedes on Friday.
Yep, the EQS SUV – which we’ve recognized about for some time now – is being constructed at Benz’s Tuscaloosa manufacturing unit, which has been the house of most of its SUV manufacturing for the reason that Nineties. It’ll be the primary EV to come back off the traces there, too, but it surely received’t be the final. Mercedes already has plans to construct the smaller, extra inexpensive EQE SUV there, and there might even be a Maybach SUV EV someplace within the plant’s future as effectively.
Mercedes’ plans to construct EVs within the US aren’t precisely thrown-together, last-minute sorts of plans both. The corporate has a battery manufacturing facility in close by Bibb County, which opened in March. This proximity ought to make manufacturing simpler and cheaper, and that’s at all times good.
Mercedes expects to get the EQS SUV to sellers someday earlier than the top of 2022, with pricing someplace simply north of the place the EQS sedan begins (which is round $103,360 for the bottom Premium trim). Vary is estimated to peak at 373 miles, and energy output tops out at 536 on the top-tier 580 mannequin.
