At the Geneva Motor show, Mercedes-Benz is unveiling today a concept for a premium all-electric MPV (minivan), the EQV, and it announced plans to bring a production version to market by the end of the year.
Daimler is claiming that the EQV will be “the world’s first MPV in the premium segment to feature a purely battery-electric drive system.”
The German automaker is trying to bring a uniform design aesthetic across its EQ electric vehicles – first launched with the EQC electric SUV.
Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer at Daimler AG, commented on the design of the EQV minivan:
“The Concept EQV embodies our ‘Progressive Luxury’ approach by merging the analogue and digital worlds into a single entity. The EQ design idiom provides the vehicle with its unmistakeable appearance and has some impressively progressive shapes. And in the interior, too, the cool aesthetics of the exterior continue, being supplemented by warm accents, like those in rose gold, which underline the whole “Welcome Home” effect. The focus in the cockpit of our Concept EQV is on the new and intuitive MBUX system.”
For the launch in Geneva today, Mercedes-Benz released a series of pictures of the new electric minivan:
The concept features an electric powertrain consisting of a 100 kWh battery pack and a 150 kW electric motor located on the front axle.
Mercedes-Benz says that it will result a “realistic range” of up to 400 kilometres (249 miles) and top speed of 160 km/h (99 mph).
As for the charging capacity, the company didn’t share any charge rate, but explained:
“The concept vehicle can be conveniently charged at home using a Mercedes-Benz wallbox or a regular household plug socket. For even more flexibility in your daily routine, there is also a rapid charging function: within just fifteen minutes, the battery can be charged with sufficient energy for a range of around 100 kilometres.”
The production version of the EQV electric minivan is going to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Autoshow in September.
More details about the vehicle’s specs and pricing information are expected at that time.
