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The new Mercedes-Benz EQC
The Mercedes-Benz among electric vehicles.
t was at the 2016 Paris Motor
Show that Mercedes‑Benz first
presented its new product and
technology brand for
electromobility. In mid-2019 the
time has now come: The EQC
(combined power consumption: 22.2 kWh/100
km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km,
provisional figures)1 is the first Mercedes-Benz
vehicle to be launched under the EQ brand.
With its seamless, clear design and colour
highlights typical of the brand, it is a pioneer for
an avant-garde electric look while representing
the design idiom of Progressive Luxury. With
respect to quality, safety and comfort the EQC
is the Mercedes-Benz among electric vehicles,
and highly convincing in the sum of its
attributes. These are accompanied by dynamic
performance, thanks to two electric motors at
the front and rear axles with a combined output
of 300 kW. A sophisticated operating strategy
enables an electric range of more than 450 km
according to NEDC (provisional figure)1. EQ
also offers comprehensive services with
I
Mercedes me, and makes electromobility
convenient and suitable for day-to-day
motoring. The EQC also symbolises the start of
a new mobility era at Daimler.
As the first Mercedes-Benz model under the
new product and technology brand EQ, the
Mercedes-Benz EQC has many trailblazing
design details and colour highlights typical of
the brand. Both inside and out, the EQC
embodies the design idiom of Progressive
Luxury. This arises from the combination of
beauty, the conscious clash of digital and
analogue elements as well as the seamless
merging of intuitive and physical design.
By virtue of its muscular proportions, the
EQC is classed as a crossover SUV. The
extended roofline and window layout with a low
waistline and the coupé-like roof recess at the
rear visually position it between an SUV and an
SUV coupé.
A striking feature at the front is the large
black-panel surface enclosing the headlamps
and grille. The black panel is bordered at the
top by an optical fibre as a visual link between
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the torch-like daytime running lamps as a
typical Mercedes-Benz feature. At night this
creates an almost uninterrupted, horizontal light
band. The inner housings and tubes of the
standard MULTIBEAM LED headlamps are in
high-gloss black. Contrasting colour highlights
discreetly confirm the model’s membership of
the new EQ family: blue stripes on a black
background, and MULTIBEAM lettering also in
blue.
The high-quality interior of the EQC also
pioneers an avant-garde electro-look. One
example is the ribbed edge of the instrument
panel, which resembles the cooling ribs of a hi-
fi amplifier. The instrument panel is designed as
a driver-oriented cockpit. The typical Mercedes-
Benz wing profile is asymmetrical, with a “cut-
out” in the driver area. This is where one of the
visual highlights of the cockpit is located - a
high-tech, high gloss cassette housing flat air
vents with key-shaped, rosé-gold coloured
louvres.
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