The German manufacturer has unveiled the Vision EQXX, its new concept car, which is expected to affect all the electric vehicles it will produce in the future
Source: Mercedes
Is Mercedes on the way to eliminating the concept of “range anxiety”? The company promises that the Vision EQXX, the new concept car it recently unveiled, is the most energy-efficient car it has produced, and that’s even before we talked about the design.
More than 1,000 km / h in one charge
The Mercedes EQS vehicle (model 450+) has already presented in real world conditions a rather impressive range of 680 km. But the company is gearing up and now introduces the Vision EQXX, which features an unusual design – love it or hate it – but mostly an impressive driving range of more than 1,000km for charging. At the moment, the small manufacturer Lucid Motors is mostly identified with such impressive ranges, with Air presenting a range of 830 km for charging.
Back to Vision EQXX. The new vehicle, which took only about a year and a half to design, was designed in an impressive aerodynamic way and offers a drag coefficient (the resistance created by the car when moving with the air – lower is better) of 0.17 – compared to the EQS 0.2. The wheelbase of the vehicle stands at 280 cm, which is shorter than the EQS and similar to that of the Tesla 3 for example.
Source: Mercedes
But it was not only the aerodynamic structure that received attention. Mercedes prides itself on a 95 percent energy transfer efficiency between a battery and a wheel, meaning high efficiency, with almost no energy loss, which helps the car offer a low energy consumption of 10 kWh per 100 km. This way, those who drive it will be able to enjoy a driving range of more than 1,000 km for charging.
Despite the impressive range, Mercedes explain that they did not achieve this by simply increasing the number of batteries or their volume. In fact, the company claims that the batteries now take up about 50 percent less volume than their EQS counterparts, and even weigh 30 percent less. Additional battery consumption is achieved thanks to the vehicle’s software, which includes a new energy consumption management system.
The UX of the car features a very wide uniform screen. Source: Mercedes
In addition, solar panels with 117 photovoltaic cells mounted on the car roof are able to give according to Mercedes another 25 km of driving. Not much when you plan a long trip, but just what you need to get to a nearby charging point (outside of Israel, of course).
Although it is important to remember that this is a concept vehicle, ie not a vehicle that will sail on the roads of our country in the near future, Mercedes emphasizes that it will be the basis for the next generation of all the company’s electric vehicles, with some systems already integrated in contemporary vehicles.
Yaniv Avital
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