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

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

The devoted EV might be primarily based on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, generally known as the AMG.EA platform, and is due round 2025. Autocar has realized the mannequin might be a glossy sedan (or hatch) serving as an electrical different 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 specializing in high-performance electrical motors and wholly owned by Mercedes.

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than typical radial-flux motors of comparable output. Nevertheless, 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.

In a separate interview with Autocar, Robert Lesnik, Mercedes’ head of exterior design, stated the AMG.EA platform has enabled the designers to maintain the automobile very low and glossy. This can assist help effectivity, one thing that could be a key issue for the challenge. Lesnik stated AMG additionally plans energetic aerodynamic options and even a printed emblem just like what’s used on AMG’s Components 1 vehicles 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 available on the market on the time because of its 740-hp output. Since then, AMG has gathered extra expertise, significantly within the areas of power discharging and restoration, from its F1 program.

Take a look at 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.