Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AMG Idea Previews AMG’s First Standalone EV

Mercedes-AMG will launch the primary absolutely electrical mannequin on its new devoted AMG.EA platform in 2025, which has been developed fully by the AMG division in Affalterbach as a standalone efficiency car structure that will likely be separate from Mercedes’ upcoming MB.EA platform. On Thursday the model unveiled the Imaginative and prescient AMG idea, a fantastical four-door coupe that previews the 2025 manufacturing automotive.

The Imaginative and prescient AMG idea has a streamlined profile that is harking back to the Imaginative and prescient EQXX idea that was launched earlier this 12 months. It is bought a protracted wheelbase, a low hood, pretty brief overhangs and a low, tapering greenhouse that flows right into a teardrop rear finish. The proportions are dramatic, with the Imaginative and prescient AMG trying like a very modern successor to the unique CLS when it comes to design, and it is about 6 inches longer than the Porsche Taycan, which must be the manufacturing mannequin’s most important rival. Whereas the raked windshield is regular glass, the Imaginative and prescient AMG’s facet home windows and rear glass are painted in the identical Alubeam silver because the physique of the automotive, with a hexagonal sample that permits occupants to see out.

The entrance finish is dominated by a brand new interpretation of AMG’s Panamericana grille, which is not actually a grille a lot as a physique coloration panel with an illuminated define and vertical gentle bars. Its headlights are formed like Mercedes’ three-pointed star emblem, with the internal traces becoming a member of a central gentle bar that runs throughout the nostril that may present totally different animations. All these lights make the Imaginative and prescient unmistakably a Mercedes-AMG from the entrance, and it is a look that we anticipate future manufacturing fashions to make use of. Like on the AMG One hypercar and classic streamliners, the Imaginative and prescient has a big Mercedes star painted on the hood as nicely. On the rear finish a slim gentle bar extends all the way in which to the wheel arches, and 6 spherical taillights within the diffuser give off the look of exhaust suggestions — or spaceship rocket engines.

One of many coolest options on the Imaginative and prescient AMG that sadly is not actually seen in these photographs are the 22-inch wheels, that are deeply dished and have an aero-disc design. The AMG-branded flat ‘aero cladding’ rims on the edges of the wheels truly open up for higher cooling and aerodynamics, which ought to look superior in movement. The Imaginative and prescient AMG additionally an lively rear spoiler, decrease carbon-fiber trim and teal accents that match Mercedes’ Components 1 vehicles.

AMG is not giving any efficiency particulars for the Imaginative and prescient, however the model says it makes use of an Axial Flux Motor developed by YASA, a subsidiary of Mercedes. This motor apparently is extra compact, light-weight and highly effective than conventional electrical motors. The AMG.EA structure’s batteries and different drivetrain parts are all additionally developed in-house for AMG particularly, sharing nothing with Mercedes’ different EV elements. Mercedes says the Imaginative and prescient AMG is far decrease than an EQS regardless of the battery pack sitting within the flooring between the axles, which ought to result in higher proportions in future manufacturing vehicles, and it has carved-out house for footwells.

Whereas the manufacturing model of the Imaginative and prescient AMG will not be out till 2025, AMG has extra electrified fashions within the pipeline which can be primarily based on present vehicles. The AMG EQS is on sale now and will likely be adopted later this 12 months by the AMG EQE, and a plug-in-hybrid model of the SL Roadster will be part of the GT63 S E Efficiency 4-Door Coupe. Count on AMG variations of different electrical Mercedes-Benz vehicles to observe, like of the EQS SUV. However as soon as that AMG.EA platform is up and working, we should always see much more distinctive efficiency fashions from the model.