Mercedes-Benz AMG, lengthy identified for its tire-shredding V-8 and V-12 engines, is properly on its method towards providing a various electrical portfolio.

The Affalterbach tuner already gives its personal variations of Mercedes’ EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and at the moment it’s engaged on its first devoted EV, a prototype for which has simply been noticed.

The devoted EV will probably be primarily based on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, referred to as AMG.EA, and is predicted to debut in late 2025. The timing suggests it should attain the U.S. as a 2026 mannequin.

As our spy pictures present, the EV will probably be a brilliant modern hatchback with 4 doorways, making it a possible electrical different to the present GT 4-Door Coupe, a car whose title it might carry into manufacturing. The 2 variations are more likely to be bought alongside each other for a interval, as the present GT 4-Door Coupe was solely up to date final yr.

2026 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV spy pictures – Picture credit score: Baldauf

Mercedes additionally introduced final week that it has deserted a plan to go the electric-only route in main markets by the tip of the last decade. As a substitute the automaker plans to proceed providing gas-powered autos properly into the following decade, and presumably longer. This implies the GT 4-Door Coupe with a fuel engine could stick round for longer than beforehand deliberate.

AMG teased a possible design for its first devoted EV with the reveal of 2022’s 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 and which makes a speciality of high-performance electrical motors.

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

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

The automobile’s modern design will additional support effectivity. AMG is predicted to make use of lively aerodynamic options and even a printed brand just like what’s used on AMG’s System 1 vehicles and the One hypercar. An lively rear spoiler can clearly be seen in a few of the spy pictures.

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, significantly within the areas of vitality discharging and restoration, from its F1 program.

Earlier than the arrival of its first devoted EV, AMG is predicted to introduce a tuned model of the following CLA-Class, a prototype for which can be out testing.