Mercedes-Benz is having one other crack on the mid-size luxurious electrical SUV phase, with the GLC with EQ Expertise teased forward of its reveal subsequent month.
The battery-electric model of the German premium model’s best-seller will debut on the Munich motor present (aka IAA Mobility) on September 7, 2025.
Mercedes-Benz has launched a teaser picture displaying off its distinctive grille, and there are echoes of the grilles of basic fashions just like the W126 S-Class – however with a catch.
Whereas the chrome-surrounded grille has three rows with dozens of small sq. segments, paying homage to Benzes of yore, it’s closed-off and options built-in contour lighting and a “smoked-glass-effect lattice construction”.
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Mercedes-Benz may even provide an illuminated model as an choice, with 942 backlit dots and animation sequences.
The central star and the built-in surrounding contour of the panel are additionally illuminated.
The nod to the previous is a part of Mercedes-Benz’s transfer away from the controversial design language employed on its Electrical Car Structure-based EQE sedan, EQE SUV, EQS limousine and EQS SUV.
Mercedes-Benz has already facelifted the EQS in Europe, giving it a extra standard grille, and has paused deliveries of the quartet within the essential US market because of gradual gross sales.
The corporate has stated it’s shifting to a “coherent design language” throughout its portfolio, with its EVs to extra intently resemble their combustion-powered counterparts even when they use completely different platforms – a method rival BMW already employs.
As seen in spy images and teasers, it seems to have a extra rakish silhouette than the combustion-powered GLC, however is far more athletic-looking than the blobby EQE SUV.
Mercedes-Benz can be ditching its EQ nameplates, which is why this new mid-size electrical SUV known as the GLC with EQ Expertise as a substitute of the EQC.
Inside, the electrical GLC will characteristic an “all-new, seamless” MBUX Hyperscreen that can see the car’s screens below one layer of glass.
It’s additionally the primary mannequin in a “utterly new household of autos” that includes MB.OS, a “superbrain” that can energy each new Mercedes-Benz.
The electrical GLC will debut the model’s new MB.EA devoted electrical car (EV) structure, and rides a wheelbase 129mm longer than the combustion-powered GLC – so simply over three metres.
It’ll be provided in single-motor rear-wheel drive and dual-motor all-wheel drive configurations with system outputs of as much as 500kW.
Batteries vary from a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) unit that’s prone to ship a WLTP-rated vary of simply over 500km, to a 94.5kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery that enhances WLTP vary to greater than 800km.
This battery’s extremely environment friendly silicon carbide anodes and the 800V electrical structure additionally enable cost charges of as much as 320kW, which imply it may be topped as much as give 400km extra vary in as little as quarter-hour.
A prototype we drove in Sweden earlier this yr was moderately shut to what’s prone to be the top-spec, non-AMG GLC 4Matic with EQ Expertise.
Its dual-motor powertrain had a system output of 360kW, a two-speed transmission, the 94.5kWh battery, air suspension, and rear-wheel steering.
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