Mercedes Developing Electrical Vehicle Platform
Mercedes-Benz is inwards the early on stages of developing a novel platform to underpin a make of electrical vehicles.
The platform, tentatively called Ecoluxe, is purpose of an ambitious €2 billion projection that Mercedes executives are allegedly close to approve. The guidelines telephone band for a platform that is low-cal inwards gild to offset the mass of the battery pack together with modular then that it tin underpin both long together with curt wheelbase vehicles. Mercedes is currently planning on edifice 4 trunk styles on the Ecoluxe platform, though additional variants could move added subsequently inwards the production run.
German linguistic communication periodical Auto Bild reports that all cars built on the Ecoluxe platform volition characteristic rear-wheel effort together with an innovative four-wheel steering system. The showtime model, which has non been given a refer yet, volition pack the equivalent of 544 horsepower inwards measure due south shape or 603 hp inwards GT tune. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 high-capacity battery pack located nether the rider compartment volition give the auto a maximum driving make of at to the lowest degree 450 km.
The showtime model underpinned past times the Ecoluxe platform is scheduled to hitting the marketplace inwards either 2019 or 2020