Farewell EQC
Forget the EQC. A new electric SUV called ‘Mercedes-Benz GLC with EQ Technology’ is eager to replace it. Mercedes-Benz has put CEO Ola Källenius behind the wheel of the SUV and is sharing more information about the electric newcomer.
Mercedes-Benz is gradually moving away from the EQ label. This explains why the electric G-Class was not called EQG upon its introduction, but ‘G-Class with EQ Technology,’ and why the electric variant of the new CLA does not carry the EQ label. It is therefore logical that the successor to the EQC – the electric equivalent of the GLC – will soon be called Mercedes-Benz GLC with EQ Technology. Quite a mouthful. To warm up the spirits for the arrival of the electric GLC, the Germans have put Mercedes CEO Ola Källenius behind the wheel of the SUV. We also learn new specifications.
For example, the fully electric GLC benefits from the Airmatic air suspension that the S-Class also treats you to, whether or not in combination with a co-steering rear axle. The electric GLC should also be a lot more spacious than its namesake with combustion engines. The car owes this, among other things, to its wheelbase. It is 8 centimeters larger than that of the GLC with combustion engines. According to Mercedes-Benz, all the extra centimeters provide the rear passengers with ‘significant’ more leg and headroom.
The electric GLC can tow quite a bit.
Not only is the electric GLC spacious in the back, but it is also spacious behind the back seat. According to Mercedes-Benz, the luggage space is 570 liters. A regular GLC reaches 620 liters, but a plug-in hybrid GLC reaches 470 liters. But there is more. You get 1,740 liters of storage pleasure in the electric GLC if you fold down the rear seat. In addition, there is a luggage compartment (frunk) under the front hood in which you can store no less than 128 liters.
Then the question of all questions: what is the range of the electric GLC? That question remains unanswered, but we can already tell you that a GLC 400 4Matic variant called can charge with more than 320 kW. Thanks in part to the 800v on-board voltage. Mercedes-Benz emphatically states that it can charge with 800v as well as 400v. Depending on the market, by the way. In the Netherlands, for example, the current CLA can (still) only go to 800v chargers. The electric GLC should be able to recharge approximately 260 kilometers in 10 minutes. More data? We have it. For example, the maximum towing weight is 2,400 kilos.