New Mercedes EQS REVIEW & tested 0-60mph - is it as quick as a Tesla?

Welcome inside the most high-tech car Mercedes has ever made. They are your brand new equalizers. Can you say that again? Please, I was trying to tell people that you are the most technological car that Mercedes has ever made, but then he intervened and interrupted me, it is essentially the rival of their Tesla model, so in this video I will tell you everything that you need to know about it and I'll point you to all the interesting text snippets and key features. I'll also go out on the road with it and see how comfortable it is. You could even time it from the north up to 60 miles per hour to see if it accelerates as fast as a Tesla model.

Let's do it, buy a new car and then head over to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow, your one stop car shopping comparison site. Let's start talking about designs like the s-class, you get cool poppy shaped door handles and I like the s-class, this is quite a long vehicle, however they look quite different, for example this car does not have a hood big and long because there is no big engine in the front and it also does not have a normal grill, it has a blind grill like You get into the other electric Mercedes car, like the Eqa in the back, you have a full length bulb that can be seen really cool and if you think this blue paint is a little dull you can actually get a two tone paint. scheme like on the vision eqs concept car, I actually quite like it, it looks pretty good, the wheel sizes start at 19 and go up to 21 inches and you get this aerodynamic design which helps improve efficiency, you can actually upgrade to 22-inch alloy wheels, although it doesn't improve efficiency, you can get the new eqs with something called comfort doors, so when you've been doing what you need to do and you get back to your car, it recognizes that your bag opens the handles of the doors and even opens. the door for you, all kinds of views of

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and then when you get in and put your foot on the brake it closes the door and then it makes that crazy sci fi type of noise that lets you know you are now in an electric car.

We're on equalizers, let's talk about this interior design. I'll move on to these screens in a moment because they dominate the cabin, but let's just talk about the general interior. Yes, the materials feel very good and are man-made. materials now it looks like suede but it is obviously man made the leather on the seats is not real leather it is man made it feels like expensive leather the steering wheel has a very nice design you can get two different designs of steering wheel you have an amg the car line looks a little bit sportier and then there's an overall design, so you've got this big center console here, which I've noticed bumping my knee a little bit, but luckily it's padded and there's a lot of useful storage space in here.

Well, under this open pore wood, which is also very nice, you have the cup holders there and they are adjustable in size. In fact, you can remove that section. You've got two USBs, there's a wireless charging pad and some more storage there, and if you go. Here you have a huge container with another Wallace charging pad, two more USBCs of storage under here, then there is the glove box that we have full of miscellaneous and decoded things, look and look at those wipes and all that kind of stuff and then I have some big compartments on the doors and I quite like it.

Controls for the exterior mirrors. Now I'm not the biggest fan of touch sensitive buttons, but you actually press them and then just toggle them to the mirror you want. move around and it's pretty easy to do, it's actually a seamless design, smooth and clean, and look at this, I'll show you this, so we open the door by just pulling the light, you'll open it, but I want to show you this. I love the way. You have frameless windows here in this saloon. I also like this extra piece of glass. Looks great. Well, let's talk about screens.

So, enter this code and the bald old man was like Daimler won't allow me access. Welcome, I've got you, so this is what's known as a hyperdisplay and you basically have three huge screens behind this seamless piece of glass. Looks great. Your main infotainment screen here in the middle, so you basically have your usual Mercedes infotainment system. so it's easy to navigate, you can move through different functions, control various things, you've got your great navigation, it's got a different climate control in there, so it's pretty easy to do, although it's still not as good as the buttons physical, but I like the fact that when you increase the temperature and you get this like a red flash through this LED lighting that you have inside.

In fact, you have 190 different colors of LED lighting so you can set the interior atmosphere however you want. You can

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ly go to your home settings and scroll through all the different menus and you'll get various information about the car, like battery states and engine usage, and all that kind of information, nice big screen, now let's move on to the driver's digital display, which is very clear. It's an LCD screen, you can control it using the buttons on the steering wheel, they are touch sensitive and a bit fiddly, they aren't as bad as the ones you get on Volkswagen products at the moment, so you can just look through different menus and change the appearance.

On your dials get all the information you need, have widescreen navigation and it will also create that 3D effect you get with the S class. In addition, it also has a huge front display with a lot of information in front of it. of you and you can actually overlay our pictures and arrows on the road to help direct you so you don't make a wrong turn again, it's like the s class system really really cool, like in that car, and now we move on to the third screen , so the car trimmer won't let you operate this third screen unless someone sits there, so I'll show you what it looks like and what you can do with it from some cuts we filmed earlier, but you can swipe through all of them. the features you get on the main infotainment screen and you'll actually know, for example if I'm driving while driving and I start looking at that screen too much, it will start to dim so it doesn't distract me.

Also, this screen has its own hey

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system, so that person can talk to this screen and the driver can talk to the rest of the system and we're going to give hey mercedes a little try, normally it should have been ringing by now, but it doesn't. it has done. Hello Mercedes Hello Mercedes, how can I help? I don't know what I want now. Can I have the moon on a stick? Can you say that again? Please again. Hello Mercedes, how can I help you turn on my seat massager? I'm lighting up. the massage for you um and yeah, it's set up with this weird vibration sensation.

It feels like you have some kind of neurological disease. It's a bit strange. um, hey, Mercedes, stop the massage function. It's strange and makes me want to go to the bathroom. How I can? I'll help you, I just got dirty I'm sorry, can you say that again? Please God, I'm so embarrassing. I hope all this is cut in the video. I'm sorry, but I can't help you with that right now. No no. Now we can talk about charging, so this is the charging port here, nevermind, I think it's the windshield washer fluid, no, that's nonsense, you charge it like a hydroelectric dam, it blocks the trickle of water, um, turn on the generator and that's all good.

I'm not wrong, I'm never wrong, right, if you really want to talk about the washer fluid for the winter, then let's do it, it's strange on this car, you actually top it off here in the back, you just took the water from there, it doesn't go in there, mate. What's wrong with you today, Jack, what's your problem? Would you be happy if I continued talking about batteries a little longer? Yes, yes, please, this car comes standard with a 108 kilowatt hour battery pack giving it a range of 478 miles, which is much more than the 290 mile range you get from a Porsche Hi-Cam 4s , but a little less than the new Tesla Plaid Plus model, which has a range of 520 miles that you can get with this car. with a slightly smaller 90 kilowatt hour battery and I will give it a range of 400 miles, you can charge them with a 200 kilowatt charger if you can find the 200 kilowatt charger and if you can, in 15 minutes you can add 186 miles of Range which It's pretty impressive when it comes to charging at home.

The car is equipped as standard with an 11 kilowatt on-board charger, meaning it takes approximately 10 hours to fully charge, but it can also be upgraded to a 22 kilowatt charger. and then obviously you can charge it in half the time, which is five hours anyway. Now I'm going to continue with the general maintenance of my car. Well, just one of the main differences between the eqx and the s-class other than the fact that it is obviously electric is that it has a hatchback-type tailgate, which makes it more practical. You have a big trunk like in an S-Class, but it's obviously easier to load.

I want to show you a couple of extra things, like there's room down here for your charging cables and you've got electrically operated rear seat releases, there you go, so you can turn things on and feel pretty comfortable in there if you ever run out of charge. and you need to sleep on the side of the road until they rescue you. could happen leave now that we film this segment it's over it's over it's over I'm going out I'm not making me do stupid things as standard the eqs comes with rear wheel steering so when you drive at high speeds on the highway the rear wheels will turn slightly in the same direction as the front wheels and that only improves stability at high speed;

However, when you go slowly, such as when maneuvering around town, the rear wheels move in the opposite direction to the front wheels, so if you turn completely right, the rear wheels actually turn left, then, if you turn all the way to the left the rear wheels turn all the way to the right and the actual degree of rotation is quite large, it's 10 degrees, well it is if you pay Mercedes some extra money. because as standard the rear wheels will only move 4.5 degrees, now it has nothing to do with the mechanics, you just have to unlock that extra feature.

Cynical, now I want to talk about the rear seats of the new eqs and it just made sense. go for a ride in the car to do that I wanted to wear a Mercedes face mask, but I have the best option: it is a similar type of brand to this car, as you can see, there is a lot of room for the knees and it is also okay A lot of light enters because you have this panoramic glass roof. It's all very, very comfortable. This guy is a little longer than an S-Class, so as standard it has a little more knee room in the back and you can really stretch out.

It is comfortable. It is well folded. This down there and you have things like storage and a little pad there where you can control various functions of the infotainment system. Look, it appears, press the right button. This one has the rear infotainment system and you can see it. get these big screens, if you want them, let's get that out of the way. Now we have to talk about the comfort levels in this car because they are very good, it has air suspension as standard and this car can do this thing where it knows where the bumps are so as you drive you can detect them and you can actually register them on the sat nav system so that when I get back to that place I know there is a pothole and then loosen the suspension so that I will know where there is a speed, I am slowing it down as you go over it or if you approach a driveway which is very steep, you'll know where it is and it will raise the air suspension so you can get up. that driveway without grinding your nose being an electric car obviously you don't have an engine in the front humming so this guy is quiet and they have put so much sound insulation in that in the wheel arches on the windshield pillars you have double glazing It's super super quiet and they even use the car's Burmester sound system as a pair of noise canceling headphones.

It can record the frequencies of annoying noises and then send opposing sound waves that cancel them out and it can be very quiet, but that's a bit strange for you driving in complete silence. You can change the different sound effects that the car produces to turn it off or there are three other different modes. Now once my driver has solved this junction I'm going to ask him to just show the different modes so Alex once you're around the roundabout you can open up the different modes so let's go for the first one which is called waves silver, so when you accelerate and brake you hear different noises, accelerate and brake hmm, come on. try the other vivid stream, this is it, did you hear that, press that again, electric boy, let's listen to this one while we speed around here oh yeah, this sounds a little more like what that was all about, a little more futuristic than the other one .

The last one roars, so speed up and brake, oh yeah, this is a littlesportier and makes a strange noise when we brake, it's like a wheel bearing is working, oh obviously you can remove them completely, which I could do today from launch. You will be able to get the eqs in two versions: there is the 450 plus, which has one motor in the rear and then there is the dual motor version, which is the 580, which does not matter in the front and rear and is obviously four wheels . Drive, let me give you the performance stats, so the 450 plus has 333 horsepower and 568 Nm of torque and the 580 has 523 horsepower and 855 Nm of torque, so let's see how fast it is.

What I have is my specialized timing gear. here and we're going to find a place where we can stop briefly, then we'll launch it and see how fast it doesn't work 6d, okay, so we'll stop when you're ready, alex, launch it at full speed, full speed, keep going, keep going, keep going with the coupon, what we don't have 60 wow, 3.98 seconds, so it's not the Tesla model S. plug plus fast, which I don't do 16, something like 1.99 seconds, but less than four seconds and considering that I have a driver and my cameraman in the car, it's pretty good now, if you think this is a bit of a fast car, I would do it.

It's a little low to lend it to my son, but you could lend it to your son because it has a beginner mode that will limit the top speed to just under 75 miles per hour and there is a valet mode that will disable all the settings that someone might make. Don't get in your car and then play with your settings and then get back in, it's a bit annoying to talk about the car actually being able to recognize you when you get in the car so different drivers can be set up to use the car. Get in, the car recognizes them and will configure everything perfectly for that person.

It's all very clever. The last thing I want to tell you is aerodynamics because it is very important in an electric car because it allows you to make the most of its battery and two because there is no engine, your ears then notice other things like the whistling of the wind and not long ago Tesla announced the fact that its new model, the Cloud Plus, was the most aerodynamic production car with a drag coefficient of 0.208. cd everyone was amazed and then Mercedes released these eqs and they just beat Tesla. Yes, you can help by being silent.

That assistant always chimes in when you mention the s-word. Anyway, before I was interrupted, what he was saying was that Mercedes beat Tesla. 008 of a cd because the drag coefficient of this car is 0.2 cd and the result is yes, super super quiet and with a decent range. In fact, if this car had the same drag coefficient as the Tesla Model 3, which is 0.23 cd, its range will be reduced by 5 one last thing I need to tell you and that is the price, so the eqs will start at around 80 £000 when it goes on sale in the summer; however if you want the 580 version with dual motors you'll be looking at around £100,000 they start to add options and will soon be over £120,000 if you want an electric car that offers a similar type of performance and luxury to this but it's a lot less expensive, in fact it's one of my favorite electric cars on Carway, if you click on the pop up banner up there you can see what that car is and a very good deal I got, so what's my final verdict about the new mercedes eqs?

Well, I can't give you a correct verdict because I haven't driven it yet, but from what I've seen, the technology is impressive, it's very comfortable to ride, it feels fast and it's very quiet. Now I'm going to go over this car properly and what I would like you to do is tell me what you would like me to do with it. If I do range testing or an endurance race, if I group test it against something, let me know in the comments below. I will read them and try to make some of them happen. It's a little humid.