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Mercedes-Benz Unveils New Flagship EQS Electric Sedan To Take On Tesla (cnbc.com) 90

Posted by BeauHD from the new-challenger-emerges dept.
Mercedes-Benz's parent company Daimler AG unveiled Thursday its newest battery-powered sedan that challenges Tesla in the high-end electric car space. CNBC reports: The 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS, unveiled Thursday, marks a new era for the German automaker as it pivots to EVs. The car will be part of its large S-Class car family when it arrives in U.S. showrooms in the fall. Most notably, the interior of the vehicle looks like a cockpit out of a futuristic spacecraft more than a car. It has screens across nearly the entire dashboard of the vehicle. In total, it features three screens under a single 56-inch curved glass surface, including a passenger screen that will not be visible to the driver.

The automaker did not release pricing for the EQS, however industry experts expect it to easily top $100,000. The starting price on the 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class ranges between $94,000 and $160,000. Its Mercedes-Maybach S models can top $200,000. The price range for Tesla's Model S large sedan ranges from around $79,990 to $149,990, including a new high-end performance model, Model S Plaid.
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  • Why traditionnal car compagny almost always make ugly e-car, and the interior of this one.is the worsts I had see for now.

    • You make it sound like an EV1 or a Leaf. I don't know how accurate the pictures in the article are to what will actually be released but it looks really nice to me. Both inside and out.

      What's the complaint?

    • "Why traditionnal car compagny almost always make ugly e-car"

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] ?

    • >"Why traditionnal car compagny almost always make ugly e-car, and the interior of this one.is the worsts I had see for now."

      Don't know what you are talking about. Tesla just RUINED the "new" S with the stupid "huge-landscape-TV-in-center", minimal controls, and half square steering wheel. What I used to think was a neat design is now trash.

      What Mercedes did is far more interesting, nice, and attractive. Just the sight of simulated analog meters on the main dash is a HUGE plus. Way outside MY price

      • Yeah agreed, I think it looks nice of a luxury boat. If you have to have a giant screen in the car, that's how you do it. It seems to be missing any physical controls for the climate control but I imagine the target audience just sets it once after buying the car and never touches it anyway.

      • This, so many times over.

        Does anybody actually like this ridiculous touch screens in cars that require multiple menu taps to perform actions that used to be one hit of a button or a turn of a dial?

        I'm actually hoping the electric F150 will have traditional controls. Maybe pickups will be more immune to the interface inanity?

  • Who cares. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by AlexHilbertRyan ( 7255798 )
    If you drive that much you need autonomy then you are a loser and are already spending too much time in a car.

    • My wife suffers from constant headaches, where I will need to stop work and drive her to the Doctors office. If we had a car that will drive itself, even at level 2 or 3 autonomy then she can go to the Doctors office without me having to leave work, as the strain of microdriving is no longer as much a factor.
      Also as I get older, when I get into my 70's and 80's my driving reaction time may not be great, and may not be able to drive, so I will be forced to move from my home to an perhaps a retirement apartme

      • I agree. With the increasing emphasis on road safety I was wondering when they were going to demand elderly drivers to retake driving ability tests. Many would fail with the result they get grounded. Good driving assists could offer more freedom to people who under stricter rules wouldn't be allowed on the road. That has a lot of value.

      • > My wife suffers from constant headaches, where I will need to stop work and drive her to the Doctors office. If we had a car that will drive itself, even at level 2 or 3 autonomy then she can go to the Doctors office without me having to leave work, as the strain of microdriving is no longer as much a factor.

        Like i have said before you are victim of the car culture. The fact you cant work from home and many others also are not allowed to work from home, adds considerable traffic and thats just the s

    • Let me guess, you said the same thing about cruise control? "If you can't maintain a speed with your right leg, then you shouldn't be driving" or some nonsense like that?

      Did you also whine about automatic transmissions? Electric starter motors instead of a crank?

      • > Let me guess, you said the same thing about cruise control? "If you can't maintain a speed with your right leg, then you shouldn't be driving" or some nonsense like that?
        Tell me how many hours a week do you drive ?
        > Did you also whine about automatic transmissions? Electric starter motors instead of a crank?
        You dont get it, every hour you drive is an hour you could be doing almost anything ...is better.
  • not that a Taurus is a bad looking car, but...

    • The Taurus was an aerodynamic car. EVs especially need to be very Aerodynamic as batteries have a lower energy density than fuel, so they need to be able to perform hundreds of miles with the same amount of energy as 3 or 4 gallons of gasoline. So Electric Cars that look like normal cars, will tend to look much like the Taurus. Otherwise they end up looking like Airplanes (Such as the Aptera), or Wedges like the Cybertruck, which many people have issues with things that look different and get repulsed wh

  • Mercedes made a car. Click baiting added Tesla (Score:4, Informative)

    by 140Mandak262Jamuna ( 970587 ) on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:11PM (#61282986) Journal
    Mercedes made an electric car. Looks like a honest attempt, not a mere compliance car. 1 more year, 100K+ ... probably they will actually make it.

    They might be hoping to at least hold their own against Telsa, but they know it is not going to be a cake walk after seeing the difficulties of VW with ID4 and other brands like BMW.

    But if you write a EV story without mentioning Tesla it does not get the clicks. So every damned EV story must rope in Tesla. They have over used Tesla-killer so much even they feel the need to avoid it.

  • Of course, there is lucid as well, along with NIO, Xpeng, etc.

    In the end, we just need to replace all LICE with EVs.

  • While every carmaker of BEVs competes each other (especially of course against the current 800-pound gorilla that is Tesla), Mercedes must convince first people who would buy traditionally S-Class vehicles that the EQS is a viable alternative.

    • They are already competing with Tesla. I do some work at a country club which is pretty exclusive. I've had them as a client in for 15 years and the parking lot used to be packed with S-class Mercedes. On any given day now, there's more Teslas than S class. So I think among the moneyed set, a Tesla has become kind of a status symbol on the level of an S550.

      The other vehicle that also seems to have increased over this time is the Suburban/Yukon, and lately, the new Ford Expedition, usually the top trim l

      • I love this observation....Honey, I'm SO BORED with Mercedes....I don't want another E Class, what else can we lease ? Problem still isn't answered, tho. We don't need a high end Tesla competitor...like this or the Taycan. We need something between Tesla and the Bolt....like a mostly normal car at 35-40k and not sold by Tesla.

        • E class is for peasants unless you buy the AMG E55 wagon which meets all the criteria for a great rich person vehicle. Entirely boring and practical form factor combined with a sports car engine and performance. Buying a $125,000 sports station wagon for its "practicality" is a true sign of luxury.

          I sometimes think that Mercedes has spoiled their brand a bit by pushing so many down market vehicles and the only really lucrative vehicles anymore are the S550, G Wagon and maybe the largest G-class SUV. The

    • Mercedes if done right, could compete against Tesla's Model S. However the Model S is no longer Tesla big money maker car. While Model 3 and Model Y seem to be what is driving Tesla at the moment. The Cybertruck may or may not be big hit. They are a lot of preorders for it, but Tesla also made these pre-orders cheap at $100 (Fully Refundable) so a lot of people probably just pre-ordered, and when times comes, they may drop their order, because they cannot afford it, or they went with some of the other e

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by teg ( 97890 )

      While every carmaker of BEVs competes each other (especially of course against the current 800-pound gorilla that is Tesla), Mercedes must convince first people who would buy traditionally S-Class vehicles that the EQS is a viable alternative.

      As competition in EVs goes up, Tesla's marketshare goes down. They're no longer the #1 EV in Norway, to give an example - the Audi E-tron outsold it. There's also a ton of other EVs being sold in an increasing number of categories - VW ID.3s, Jaguar I-Pace, Porsche Taycan, Mercedes EQC, Kia Niro, Hyundai Kona etc. Sales have also started for VW ID.4, Mercedes EQA, a new version of Hyundai Ioniq, Skoda Eniaq and a lot of smaller cars.

      As for the Mercedes EQS - it's going to be rather different than Tesla i

  • It sure looks pretty, and no doubt the interior is probably better than a Tesla, but man the software in the car looks ancient. Reminds me of the UI in a car from 15 years ago. Another youtube video also showed they have a 5 year old Samsung pad for the back seat? Not sure what that's about.

  • I can't help but wonder if car companies are again trying to make EVs that people won't buy, on purpose, simple to get the carbon credits and to make sure they are not losing too much money producing loss making vehicles - this was the entire purpose of the Chevy Volt, for example.

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