Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver and I'm here in Santa Monica this is a new Mercedes 2022
EQS and this car is from Midway car rentals and a big thank you to them for lending me
that for this video what mercedes decided to do was instead of just adding electric
power to the S-class was actually to create a new platform for their first electric s-class and they
got this the EQS the EQS in this form and this is a 450 plus has 333 horsepower although there is
an AMG version with over 600 horsepower and this car has a range of 453 miles over 700 kilometers
so this is way up there not quite as much as the Lucid Air which I also did a video on you see it's
So slippery it's basically like a fish cutting through the road
in fact it has a drag coefficient of 0.2 which makes it the car with the lowest lowest drag ever
I'm sorry did I interrupt you they both have the same drag of 0.21 which makes them the slipperiest
electric cars there are service of all cars actually but the design philosophy is very very
different from both of these cars whereas lucid looks much more sporty and is lower and has the
same amount of space as an S-class in the back the EQS is a lot fatter thicker looking and generally
just not very well proportioned in my opinion now that doesn't take away from the amazing
technology in this car which we'll talk about in a second and the fact he's got fantastic range
but i don't like the design of this car it doesn't quite look as good as it could and it starts at
around 100 000 pounds so it's definitely a very expensive car so it's looking at a different
market but still an interesting comparison because they're similarly priced depending
on the trim level and they've got the same drag coefficient and they've got similar ranges as well
so let's look at the design in a bit more detail now so I talked about the range of this car over
450 miles for this 330 horsepower version but what about the battery size well there's actually
a 107.8-kilowatt hour battery in here which is one of the biggest there is again not as big as
a Lucid so we got a really long bonnet here we do have design we got a really long bonnet here
is there a front under here but there's no front so there's no space for you to saw anything in the
front here you know like I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing obviously there's
a ton of space in the back and this is actually a hatchback looking at the front here we've got
a flat mercedes star and flat grill there's like no actual design here other than these
printed stars which are very interesting we've got these vents which look well they're not real vents
first of all but they look like real vents they're very reminiscent of the e-class actually and then
it's all chromed here this has also got a light bar across the front here which lights up at night
which makes it have a very distinct look so that's the front design obviously this
car's got a sunroof as well panoramic sunroof and it's got all the latest driver system technology
there's two cameras at the top here just like you would have seen on the lucid which had three
cameras at the top the side of this car very much shows that there is a lot of space here we've got
door handles which pop out and open obviously and at the back here it's exactly the same they've
got quite wide arches actually we've got large wheels as well these aerodynamic wheels so they're
actually covered so the air obviously moves over the outside and doesn't end up causing any drag
and overall it's just you know i don't like the design of this car don't get me wrong i love the
technology the mercedes have put into this car i just don't think it looks very good but the
design very very much believes the fact this is a hatchback it maybe doesn't look like it maybe he
has a bit of the mercedes gt 4-door going on here let's talk about the redesign of the eqs so it's
got a light bar now all new high-end luxury cars have light bars and newest Audi's newest Mercedes
the newest BMWs the lucid is becoming very very common I love the look I think we probably get
to the point where if every car has a light bar they're all going to look exactly the same
and you won't be able to tell them apart now if we look at the rear of the car there is a lot of
space back here we've got my camera equipment back here and this is a hatchback and it's got a cover
here to cover it up which means there's a lot of space here we've got the scuff plates as well
and of course we've got the buttons in the back here that i can use to put it down and powered
as well let's have a look inside the car now and see how much space there is first of all these
headrests are super super comfortable i like wow they're like really really comfortable in terms
of seating space i have quite a bit of space i'm about 178 one meter 78 and i've got headroom and
I've got a knee room it just doesn't feel as comfortable and spacious back here as a lucid
air dream edition does but there's still lots of space back here and it's still a very comfortable
car now granted this is the entry-level of the EQS it's missing quite a lot of stuff at the back here
there are no separate climate control zones there's no USB connectors there so you can charge your
phones there's no screens at the back so there's lots of stuff missing which you could spec
and add to the car so this is a basic trim level which is to be expected i love these lights to
have them in the middle here as well is very very unique and cool obviously we've got a massive
glass roof and it does obviously come open as a sunroof as well that's something you can't do with
the lucid air and having a sunroof in California where it's always really really sunny and warm is
very useful obviously in the uk maybe not so much but it gives you a lot of light in and gives you
a lot of airiness inside this cabin i want to be fair the lucid air dream edition i saw is 170 000
this car is probably about a hundred thousand dollars give or take so it's not
as high-end but I can't help but feel a tiny bit disappointed I'm not gonna lie with this car I'm
sure if we went up to the top-end model i'd feel very different when we look at the interior in a
second you'll see this car doesn't have the hyper screen either which is a real shame welcome inside
the Mercedes EQS this is the 450 plus edition as I mentioned before this car has over 300
horsepower 333 horsepower and over 450 miles of range from its 107.8 kilowatt hour battery
and inside this car this car does not have the 55-inch mercedes hyper screen which you
can spec for around seven and a half thousand pounds in the UK and comes a standard on the top
AMGvery s class standard central display and driver's
cockpit display and this is a massive display and it has wireless android auto wireless CarPlay and
actually Android Auto has the split screen which is very very unusual big credit goes to mercedes
because I haven't seen split-screen android auto except for on BMWs and those are the only two
car manufacturers that seem to do it so well done mercedes in terms of the interior we've got these
lovely beautiful turbine air vents although I have to be honest they are plastic Mercedes come on I
mean they look like they should be better quality they're definitely a bit scratchy and yeah i don't
know about that they look good but they don't feel good i'm not a big fan of piano black plastic
trim doesn't matter what car it is whether it's mercedes bmw or audi audi does it so much new rs3
has piano black trim i don't like that but this lovely damped door does have lots of usefulness
because there are two cup holders in here which you can move around like that and there's a usb 2
usb type-c and there's also the option of wireless charging as well so there's lots of space there
and you can cover it up very nicely and like i said it's very nicely damped and then we have this
beautiful nice wide open space here in the middle with another two USB type-c connectors in there
so you got four already in front of the car and we have our big start-stop button here this is fairly
unusual in EVs most EVs actually just turn on when you get in and put it in gear the fact you have to
press start is a bit unusual but it's there you can see it the doors are very very nicely made
again they've got the Burmister sound system and they've got leather and Alcantara on them and they
just feel very very very nice i can't complain about the doors in here the steering wheel so
this is one of mercedes new steering wheels so the s-class i'm not sure what i think about the
capacitive buttons on the steering wheel i have no issue with capacitive i think they're great
but there's eight buttons on each side that's a rather a lot of buttons i mean on the right
hand side here we've got a home button voice activation favorite button ok button and little
arrows we've got our volume control back button and then a phone dial and a phone hang up button
like that's a lot of buttons in a very small space i'm not sure that's a great idea we've got some
paddle shifters which adjust the regen braking and then we've got our traditional mercedes gear
selector on the right-hand side and our blinkers I'm in the USA right and our indicators and our
windscreen washers on the left-hand side and like I said the gears on the right-hand side
underneath the big screen here we have our buttons which again capacitive allowing you to change
the drive mode activate the amazing 360 camera system going to the electric settings we've got
our car settings our hazard lights we've got our fingerprint detector so it means that if i set up
my profile i can activate it with my fingerprint we've got a power button to turn off the display
and our volume mute and our volume up and down buttons so overall in the middle here there's
quite a lot going on the doors have the doors obviously have all the controls for the seats
we've got our multiple different seat adjustments on these seats and there's a lot of them we've got
our locks we've got our window controls so there's just a lot of buttons going on here
i'm not sure how i feel about that if i'm honest with you
i always feel like buttons are good in moderation i feel like maybe there's a
a bit too many buttons again you'll get used to it, I'm just being hyper critical of it
because I don't have a hyper screen and then the last thing I'd say about the interior of
these vents so we got our air vents up here again they're plastic they don't feel very high quality
you know I don't know I just feel disappointed with the interior of this car
considering i'm comparing it to the lucid and that's my fault i shouldn't be comparing it to
lucid and if you're watching this video and you haven't signed a lucid air then you know
i guess that's good for you because if you did you'd probably really want a lucid day more than
a mercedes but i'm sure mercedes if you go up to that option levels it's a lot better again this
is an interesting car to drive and you'll see in a minute when i go for a drive i really find it
very very unique as a driving experience and then overhead here we have our buttons which control
our sunroof and our lights and you know open and close the shade so all there very very
very self-explanatory just a lot of buttons but it's a comfortable interior the infotainment
system is fantastic like I mentioned let's have a look at the 360 camera system here so what's
cool about this camera system is I can tap on it and I can move around all the way this is a
very very advanced camera system i can see the exact position of the car and everything around
it and I can tap the buttons on here forwards view rearview side view other side view auto
and our gps position so it automatically goes into that position when i'm here all right now
let's go for drive and see how the eqs drives and what i think of it welcome inside the eqs
and the eqs has rear wheel steering which means i can go around in an unbelievably small space
like this over and over and over again i'm getting dizzy now so i'm going to stop now
but the eqs has rear wheel steering which makes a big difference to the maneuverability of this
car and how it handles because this is a long car and having that rear wheel steering really
really helps it makes a massive difference i was going around in that car park space on a
very very small area i was going round and round and round around and it's very impressive this car
has all the latest driver assistance technology because it is the most advanced car that mercedes
currently makes along with the s-class and that means you have all the benefits you would get
from an s-class so we've got our adapter cruise control we've got our lane assist we've got our
emergency braking the list goes on and on and on and on this car is an unbelievably safe car
you can drive along this car all day long and if you got into an accident well first would
be really hard to get into an accident because the car safety features would probably not let
you get into an accident and second of all if you did get into an accident then you'd undoubtedly be
very very safe and secure this is a fantastically safe car we've got 333 horsepower rear wheel drive
in this car and we've got a range of around 450 miles and as i drive down here in santa monica
in california it seems like driving an ev in california where everyone's concerned about their
health is the appropriate place to do it now i've had a conversation recently about the benefits
of evs compared to standard cars in terms of the batteries require extra energy and carbon to build
the cars require more technical expertise and produce more carbon emissions to build and then
of course the electricity isn't free it doesn't come out of nowhere you have to burn carbon to get
electricity now of course i think the idea is that as we move on all of our energy needs all of our
electricity needs come from renewable sources or nuclear power i think that's a big part of it and
obviously as the ability to produce electric cars to mass market gets better and better and better
the technology to create those battery packs and decrease the cars will become much much more
efficient one thing you cannot deny the benefit of electric cars is however is the air there's
no polluters going through at least not where the cars are maybe where the factories are making them
but there's no pollutants going into the air when you're driving along here so it means that
our cities and our towns will get better air and everything will be fresher and everyone will be
healthier and that makes a big difference to everyone so the benefits of electric cars not
only are the convenience of knowing that hey you can start every day on a full charge if you
plug your car in but also knowing that it's right now at least for now cheaper than petrol however
depending on where you're charging that can be different and then on top of that we've got these
beautiful nice silent rides and in a car like this a car which is very much designed to be luxurious
this car the eqs is gliding along here like well like an s-class and it really really feels
luxurious to drive it's very very relaxing just to be driving along here on this beautiful sunny day
in california where it's like 25 degrees right now in in january and we're just driving along
it's smooth silent even with the sunroof open it's still silent and it's just a very enjoyable car to
be driving along with and i imagine if you're in the back too you would feel equally comfortable
as well i don't think that anybody sitting in the back is gonna be uncomfortable obviously as we
mentioned this is the base spec of the eqs as you move up the range into the higher spec and more
powerful cars between the amg you get the 55 inch hyper screen in front of you here which divides
the dashboard up into multiple screens but it all is a screen essentially and then you also get i
think as you move up the trim range nicer interior features and more technology in the back because
we are a bit lower technology in the back of this car you can see now we've got the ambient lighting
as it's starting to get slightly darker inside the car across here and also down the side of
the doors at the back as well so we've got a lot of ambience in here which adds to this fantastic
large display with all the technology you want in fact if i went into eq settings you can see
our current charge 66 we've got 240 miles and our range here is telling us what having the various
features on the interior are using up and we can see our current consumption in this 450 plus eqs
is here in front of me so and then you know i like it up here i can tap on the top here and i
can go straight back to android auto so very very relaxing this car so let's demonstrate the rear
wheel steering here so we're gonna do a u-turn look at that how easy was that this is a long
car and that u-turn was super super super easy and now we can put our foot down a tiny bit and see
what the 300 horsepower is like the acceleration of this car is zero to 60 in about six seconds
as well but got the performance it's got the range really nice car big thank you to midway
car rental for loaning me this car today i appreciate thank you very much to them i hope you
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