Like other carmakers in the past two years, Mercedes-Benz has embarked on a journey to ditch the combustion engine vehicles it patented back in 1889. Although I was fortunate to drive the electric-powered B-Class back in 2015, we can’t talk about Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles until the EQ brand was unveiled and the first EQC was launched in 2019. That was still based on the same MRA platform as the GLC. The first dedicated EV platform (EVA) arrived in 2021 with the EQS launch.
Just as the Mercedes-Benz EQS took the world by storm, the company CEO Ola Kaellenius announced that no less than four new dedicated EV platforms are in development to help transition the company into the EV era. One of them is a high-performance dedicated architecture developed with the AMG brand in mind. It turns out that this new platform called AMG.EA (AMG Electric Architecture) is now ready for prime time and will be unveiled next week during a strategy update event. The information has been confirmed by Kaellenius at the Financial Times Future of the Car 2022 conference on Monday.
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