Mercedes previews EQE SUV inside, confirms EV’s Oct. 16 debut

Mercedes-Benz has solely simply launched the 2023 EQS SUV, a full-size electrical SUV sharing a platform and different applied sciences with the EQS hatchback. Nevertheless, the automaker will quickly unveil a smaller sibling to the EQS SUV.

To be referred to as the EQE SUV, the smaller, mid-size electrical SUV’s inside design was proven on Tuesday and its debut confirmed for Oct. 16. It ought to arrive as a 2023 mannequin.

Because the identify suggests, the EQE SUV is the high-riding counterpart to the EQE sedan that additionally arrives for 2023. Each use Mercedes’ EVA modular EV platform that debuted within the EQS and helps high-performance functions developed by the AMG skunkworks.

Mercedes hasn’t supplied any powertrain specs for the EQE SUV however we will have a look at the EQE as a information. Within the U.S., the EQE begins off with a single motor delivering 288 hp and tops out with an AMG dual-motor setup good for as much as 677 hp. The sedan additionally comes with a 90.6-kwh battery, although EPA-rated vary figures are but to be printed.

2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV spy photographs – Photograph credit score: S. Baldauf/SB-Medien

We all know from spy shots of prototypes that the EQE SUV will resemble a scaled-down EQS SUV. Nevertheless, attributable to its smaller dimension, the EQE SUV will seat a most 5 whereas the EQS SUV seats as much as seven.

The inside is a match for the EQE, and can also be very near the interiors of the EQS and EQS SUV. Mercedes mentioned the automobile can be among the many most spacious in its class when it comes to leg room and head room, and the automaker’s absolutely digital sprint, generally known as the Hyperscreen, can be accessible as proven within the teaser photograph. Right here, a sequence of digital screens are housed beneath a single glass cowl. The choice is a extra typical design with separate screens for the digital instrument cluster and infotainment hub.

Manufacturing of the EQE SUV can be dealt with at Mercedes’ plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the place the EQS SUV is constructed.

Pricing can be introduced nearer to the market launch however as a information, the EQE will begin at about $70,000 and the EQE SUV ought to carry a small premium.