IT Would seem like an eternity because Mercedes-Benz’s very first contemporary electric automobile – the EQC medium SUV – appeared on the scene, debuting the Stuttgart firm’s ‘EQ’ sub brand name.

A lot has occurred since GoAutovery first drove that automobile in Norway much more than two yrs back, nevertheless there’s ultimately a glimmer on the horizon as Mercedes-EQ prepares to quickly expand its electric portfolio 

The entrée for this burgeoning EQ family is the EQA – a little electric SUV dependent carefully on the next-era Mercedes-Benz GLA that introduced internationally in December 2019.

What that indicates is, considerably like the GLC-dependent EQC ahead of it, the EQA is an EV growth of an current system (MFA2 in this occasion), rather than created on focused EV architecture as for each the forthcoming EQS electric limousine.

When that will make perception from a economic standpoint, it does necessarily mean the EQA is something of a compromise. Plenty has been modified around the GLA, like the front and rear styling for visible variance and improved aerodynamics (.28Cd), but has Mercedes-Benz done more than enough to make the EQA sense like a step ahead, rather than an EV halt-hole? 

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