Electric cars are now available in All Shapes and Sizes. So, Sooner Or later, just the German Middle-Class Powerhouses will have to believe it. Yes, The BMW M3 and Mercedes-AMG C-Class Will also Get Electric Counterparts. They promise to be very spectacular.
Highlights
When you think of the BMW M3 and the Mercedes-AMG C-Class, You Naturally Think of Screaming Gasoline Engines. At Least, the Latter is No Longer What It Used To Be With The C63. In That Regard, The Step To A Fully Electric Equivalent, Already Somewhat Smaller for Mercedes-AMG Than For BMW is. Yet it remains QUITE A MILESTONE. First of All: Fans of Fuel-Powered Violence Don’t have to worry, because there will also be a gasoline m3 again. And at Mercedes-AMG, They Even Seem To Be Spooning An Even Bigger Engine Into The Next C63. For now, we focus on the electric counterparts, cars that, separate from their name and (eSpeciate in the case of the bmw) their lines, actually have nothing to do with the regular 3-series and c-class.
BMW IM2 (Illustration: Larson).
The Electric BMW M3, which may be called IM3, is a slightly less big mystery than the Mercedes-AMG. BMW HAS Already Shown a Very Fierce Harbinger of It and The Production Version is now also making test kilometers. The IM3 Will Be the Sporty Top Version of the All-New BMW i3, An Electrically Powered Brother of the New 3-Series. The i3 and 3-Series Will Soon Look very similar and are both covered with a neue class design sauce. A Significant Optical Change Compared to the Current Generation 3-Series. With the IM3, the whole thing is of course Extra Thickly Decorated, With Large Wheels, Thick Bumpers and also Now a ‘Grille’ That is Still Traditionally Cut Into Two Parts. The Same Recipe Applies to the Electric Mercedes-AMG C-Class, Although It is Likely to Look A Bit Less Like the Fuel-C-Class That Will Appear Alongside It In The Future. Althegh Mercedes-Benz Wants To Design Its Electric Models A Lot Less Eccentric Than Is the Case With The Eqe And EQS, There Will Probable Be More External Distinction with the Fuel Models Than With BMW.
Four Electric Motors
As Mentioned, It is Still Somewhat Guessing What the Powertrain Looks Like With The Mercedes-AMG. With bmw it is already a bit more clear. It gets no ferwer than four (!) Electric motors, one per wheel. The Letter Naturally Means That Very Precise Power Delivery Per Wheel is Possible and That Must Make The IM3 A Cornering Knight Par Excellence . It will also be strong: we expect it to excl. 600 hp. For Comparonon: The Current Fuel-M3 Kicks It As CS to 551 HP. The fact that the electric m3 is stronger is not for nothing. After all, there are already relatively accessible and practical sporty evs in the form of the tesla model 3 Performance and the Hyundai ioniq 6 N. If just an ev from hyundai already has more than 600 hp of power, the Germans Cannot Stay Beind, or Course. For the Mercedes-AMG ‘C63 with EQ Technology’ We Expect A Similarly Strong Powertrain. In the concept AMG GT XX, A New Axial Flux Motor From Mercedes-AMG Already Debuted, which we also expect in this car. The AMG GT XX had three of them, which together were good for 1,360 HP. The C Probable Has Two of Those Engines, In Theory Perhaps Strong Enough for Around 900 HP. It probably won be such a party, but maybe the mercedes-amg will be an even bigger powerhouse than the bmw and the hyundai.
Mercedes-AMG C63 with EQ Technology (Illustration: Larson).
Fast (UN) Loading
In Bothes, not only should Driving be fast, but also charging. BMW Already Promises 300 km of Recharging in at Minutes for the Neue Class and We Expect At Least That From The Mercedes-AMG. No Unnecessary Luxury, because you can bet that with a sturdy pot of tendon with thesis two electric titans you will also drain your battery fairly quickly. But Hey, in this case it’s more about the fun than about how far you get, right?