Called to be the forerunner of the electric ones of the three-pointed star, the Mercedes EQC has not met its commercial objectives as expected. About to turn four years old, it will say goodbye to the market in 2023 without the usual facelift involved, but with an immediate successor, the new Mercedes EQE.
It arrived in 2018 and too many expectations were placed on a model that was not destined to fail but was very limited in performance against one of the eternal rivals, the Audi e-tron. The one with the four rings has managed to conquer several tens of thousands of customers for its greater autonomy and also for a faster on-board charger. This latest equipment was added to the offer last year, when its successor was already more than chewing.
The EQC It is sentenced, destined to disappear and struck down after just over four years on the market. Because it won’t make it to five, and it won’t even get a mid-life cosmetic update as if we are seeing it in the younger brother, the EQA Facelift. And it is that maintaining the EQC does not make sense when the competition is betting on new generation electrics, so he is very far behind in terms of technology of its new range of electric cars.
The goodbye of the Mercedes EQC will coincide with the launch of the EQE SUV
What it does have is relief on an ever closer horizon. Its about Mercedes EQE-SUV, the representative in the D segment, which will be measured against important rivals that are also in development such as the Audi Q6 e-tron, Maserati Grecale Folgore or the Porsche Macan. However, unlike these new models, whose prototypes have been seen more in recent months, in the case of the test units of the star brand’s new electric SUV, they remain missing since, at the end of last winter, its camouflage-free production body was seen.
An indication that the model is more than ready and that the firm keeps with absolute secrecy after those spy photos achieved in an oversight of those responsible for security. The deadlines have been set for a long time. Internal sources consulted indicate that the EQE SUV will debut at the end of the yearwhile EQC order books will close next fall with the aim of coinciding the cessation of production of the latter with the market launch of the successor mid spring 2023.
Slightly smaller, with only five seats but a large interior space and a more attractive exterior design, as well as a first-rate technological load, the EQE SUV has a very special feature that distinguishes it from the outgoing model. And it is its platform, one the advanced EVA 2.0 specific for electric cars, the other the old “MRA” used by the first generation GLC. An important advance that will a battery with a greater capacity and autonomy of up to 700 kilometers, and different versionsincluding the relevant AMG sports cars.