Mercedes-Benz AMG, lengthy recognized for its tire-shredding V-8 and V-12 engines, is nicely on its approach towards an electrical future.

The Affalterbach tuner already affords its personal variations of Mercedes’ EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and presently it’s engaged on its first devoted EV.

The devoted EV might be based mostly on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, referred to as AMG.EA, and is due round 2025. Autocar has realized the mannequin might be a glossy sedan (or hatch) serving as an electrical various to the present GT 4-Door Coupe.

AMG previewed simply such a mannequin final 12 months with the reveal of the Imaginative and prescient AMG idea. The idea was constructed to showcase the probabilities of the AMG.EA platform and was confirmed by AMG to characteristic axial-flux motors developed by Yasa, an organization wholly owned by Mercedes that focuses on high-performance electrical motors.

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than standard radial-flux motors of comparable output. Nevertheless, manufacturing axial-flux motors is harder, making them lots much less cost-effective. One production-bound unit weighs simply 53 kilos however generates as much as 480 hp, Yasa chief Tim Woolmer instructed Autocar. Two of these motors would give the AMG near 1,000 hp.

In a separate interview with Autocar, Robert Lesnik, Mercedes’ head of exterior design, stated the AMG.EA platform has allowed the designers to maintain the automotive very low and glossy. This may assist support effectivity, which is a key issue for the undertaking. Lesnik stated AMG additionally plans lively aerodynamic options and even a printed brand much like what’s used on AMG’s Components 1 automobiles and the One hypercar.

AMG has loads of expertise with electrical energy. It first examined the waters in 2014 with the SLS AMG Electrical Drive. It was the quickest, strongest EV in the marketplace on the time because of its 740-hp output. Since then, AMG has gathered extra expertise, notably within the areas of vitality discharging and restoration, from its F1 program.

Check mules for AMG’s new EV utilizing makeshift EQE our bodies are already testing on public roads. The primary prototypes sporting the precise physique design ought to floor subsequent 12 months.