Mercedes has a whole range of world firsts in Paris, but this by far the most important one.
The EQC. I don't think you could've missed it, but if you did,
it's an electrical SUV of about the same size as the GLC. It's a tad longer and a tad lower, so it's a little less SUV-like,
It's fitted with an 80 kWh- battery pack and it produces 408 horsepower.
According to the WLTP-cycle, it can do 400 km on a single charge.
On the outside, it looks different than other Mercedes-cars, because this is the first car from a new label,
the EQ-label, which will also feature some smaller and bigger models. They will share the platform and probably the design language as well.
And what does that mean? First of all, this front,
in which the headlights flow into the black piece underneath the grille.
It's a very remarkable grille as well, especially for an electric car, with lots of chrome.
You can get it in different versions. There's a sportier version with two blinds in the middle.
This has a whole fence like structure full of chrome. Blue details in the lights, because blue means electrical.
On some versions, there are blue details in the wheels. Let's move to the back.
The rear looks very smooth. The license plate is in the rear bumper instead of inbetween the...
rear lights, as you'd get with other Mercedes-SUV's.
That way, it's one big piece, with a continuous rear light.
That isn't incredibly special at the back anymore, but this car has continuous lights at the front as well,
and that is really special.
Since we're here, let's open the luggage space. It fits 500 litres, which is pretty decent.
And there's even an additional space, which isn't common in EV's.
Unfortunately, it doesn't come with a frunk. There's no luggage space at the front.
It just houses technology.
Before I get in, there's a small, interesting detail. It seems that the interior- and exterior designers couldn't seem to agree,
because the door panel is a few centimetres higher than the outside of the door, so you'll get this black piece of trim.
Then, the interior. For starters, it's recognizable as a Mercedes. It looks pretty cozy, something Mercedes is doing very well...
for a while now. There's a lot of atmosphere in the interior.
So, what's the distinguishing part compared to other Mercedeses?
Well, it's mostly in the details. The vents are colored in a special bronze paint,
and in all other cases, they're different. Vertical vents here, horizontal vents there,
The screen is in a sort of cove and it exists out of one piece, which isn't incredibly unique anymore.
It's still rather special though. Also, you've got Mercedes MBUX controls in here,
in which voice commands play a big role. It started to answer my questions just now, and I wasn't even...
asking any. A detail I like very much are the ridges.
We saw them already on the press photo's, but these are the ridges in real life.
I'm talking about these. They kind of look like the cooling ridges in an old amplifier.
They're here and here, and I can imagine they're going to get pretty dusty.
Until that time, I think it looks pretty good.
In the back, an EQC doesn't have a lot of disadvantages when compared with other SUV's of this size.
The seating is alright back here.
The exact prices aren't known yet, but it's probably going to cost around €100.000.
With that, people who are in the market for Tesla's have a new interesting alternative to think about.
Small drawback: it's not going to be released in 2018, so this won'[t have 4%-additional taxes.