- Mercedes-Benz AMG plans its personal electrical full-size SUV
- It is going to trip on the AMG.EA devoted EV platform
- It could profit from high-performance axial-flux electrical motors
Mercedes-Benz AMG is urgent forward with plans to launch a high-performance electrical SUV that will probably be distinct to something offered by Mercedes-Benz.
Introduced by AMG on Thursday, the standalone SUV will use the Affalterbach tuner’s personal AMG.EA devoted EV platform and sit within the full-size class.
A teaser sketch launched as a part of Thursday’s announcement hints at a modern, nearly fastback design with highly effective haunches.
AMG has launched standalone fashions earlier than, together with the present GT Coupe and SL Roadster, in addition to the 4-Door GT Coupe. Nevertheless, this would be the first time in the corporate’s 57-year historical past that an SUV will probably be launched as a pure AMG. In an announcement, AMG chief Michael Schiebe mentioned SUVs have been among the many tuner’s hottest fashions for years, and the standalone SUV is a response to that pattern.
Michael Schiebe
The primary prototypes are scheduled to begin testing on public roads this winter. A launch date wasn’t talked about however stories from April claimed the debut would occur in 2026. The timing factors to the SUV arriving as a 2027 mannequin within the U.S.
The SUV would be the second mannequin based mostly on the AMG.EA platform. The primary is a fastback sedan due subsequent 12 months because the seemingly alternative for the 4-Door GT Coupe. Although it has but to be confirmed, a supercar can also be spun off the platform.
AMG has mentioned its AMG.EA platform will introduce quite a few new improvements for the model, certainly one of which is axial-flux motor know-how. Mercedes in 2021 acquired the British firm Yasa, which makes a speciality of high-performance electrical motors and can seemingly provide the axial-flux motors for autos based mostly on the AMG.EA platform.
Prototype for first EV totally developed by Mercedes-Benz AMG
Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than typical radial-flux motors of comparable output. As a information, a motor weighing simply over 50 kilos can ship round 480 hp, and a number of items may very well be put in. Nevertheless, manufacturing the motors is harder than for radial-flux motors, making them much more costly.
Along with its motors, the AMG.EA platform can also be anticipated to learn from a high-performance high-voltage battery developed utilizing AMG’s F1 know-how, notably within the areas of power discharging and restoration, and maybe additionally cooling.
The AMG electrical SUV can have some direct competitors when it arrives. Along with the XM plug-in hybrid from BMW M, Porsche is creating an electrical three-row SUV anticipated to reach 2027.
