Mercedes EQE is the electric executive saloon we all knew was coming

(Pocket-lint) - Mercedes has announced its latest electrical car, the EQE. As the sanction suggests, this is an electrical E-Class, 1 of the workhorses of Mercedes enforcement fleet.

Mercedes isn't hanging astir with its electrical car launches. Having started with SUVs - the EQC and EQA, it added the EQB earlier successful the year, present confirming it's going to beryllium disposable extracurricular China - earlier announcing the flagship, the EQS, the electrical S-Class.

As nighttime follows day, the motorboat of the Mercedes EQE is wholly predictable, though precisely however Mercedes mightiness sanction the smaller electrical saloon, the C-Class, is anyone's guess, considering the EQC already exists.

Back to the EQE, and Mercedes has fixed much interior abstraction to this electrical mentation than you'll find successful the combustion version. The rider compartment sees the occupants sitting higher, with much enarthrosis abstraction and it's longer successful the interior overall, portion a 430 litre footwear abstraction has been retained.

It's 90mm shorter than the EQS, but adopts a akin MBUX Hyperscreen (optional). This makes each the interior displays look arsenic 1 large integer dash, down a azygous portion of curved glass. There's really 3 screens (driver, central, passenger), and the Hyperscreen is optional.

To the exterior the EQE is little boxy than the regular E-Class, looking much similar the CLS, dropping disconnected to the rear to marque the car arsenic businesslike arsenic possible.

There's a 90kWh battery, offering 170kW charging and promising up to 410 miles of range, though that's going to beryllium connected however you thrust the car. There's 2 powerfulness outputs astatine launch, a 250kW and 215kW, though a 500kW show mentation is coming successful the future.

Four instrumentality thrust and rear axle steering are disposable for the EQE, again with 2 options to alteration the disposable steering space possible.

The options database is expected to beryllium exhaustive, with optional driving sound, HEPA filtered aerial strategy and plentifulness of others connected the list.

Whether there's going to beryllium an property mentation we don't know, but you'll spot the Mercedes EQE hitting the roads successful 2022.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 6 September 2021.