After previewing it within the Imaginative and prescient AMG idea two years in the past, Mercedes-Benz AMG has now confirmed the primary particulars for its devoted electrical automobile platform often called the AMG.EA.

The platform is being developed totally in-house at AMG and is predicted to debut in manufacturing type subsequent 12 months in a successor to the GT 4-Door Coupe. Prototypes for the brand new mannequin have been just lately noticed winter testing in northern Sweden, and AMG has now launched a few of its personal pictures of one of many check automobiles.

AMG mentioned the AMG.EA platform will introduce a variety of new improvements for the model, one in all which is axial-flux motor expertise. Mercedes in 2021 acquired the British firm Yasa, which makes a speciality of high-performance electrical motors and can seemingly provide the axial-flux motors for automobiles based mostly on the AMG.EA platform.

Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than standard radial-flux motors of comparable output. Yasa chief Tim Woolmer has beforehand revealed {that a} motor weighing simply over 50 kilos can ship near 500 hp. Nevertheless, manufacturing the motors is harder than for radial-flux motors, making them lots much less cost-effective.

Prototype for first EV totally developed by Mercedes-Benz AMG

AMG additionally mentioned a high-performance high-voltage battery might be used within the AMG.EA platform. The battery will seemingly profit from AMG’s F1 program expertise, significantly within the areas of power discharging and restoration, and maybe additionally cooling.

AMG will actually must step up its recreation because it faces stiff competitors within the EV house from each newcomers like Tesla and Lucid with their respective Plaid and Sapphire efficiency choices, in addition to established marques like Porsche, which has launched a brand new Turbo GT grade for the Taycan that delivers efficiency nearly on par with the Rimac Nevera hypercar.