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ELECTRIC & HYBRID VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY MARCH 2023: PAGE 70 Menu * Page View * Smart View * Issue List * Advertisers * Website * Feed PROTOTYPE MERCEDES-BENZ EQG Electrifying Mercedes Benz is set to reveal its production-spec electric G-Class EQG in 2024, reinforcing its commitment to electrifi cation. Before that, we get a fi rst look at the vehicle as we go along for an o -road ride with engineers testing the prototype WORDS: KYLE FORTUNE AN the scenery. We are in the passenger seat of an early prototype EQG today, Mercedes-Benz’s electric version of its G-Class, the disguise it’s wearing doing little to hide its familiar boxy proportions. Those dusty circles are evidence of the EQG’s party trick (and the wind turbines could power the batteries and four individual wheel electric motors that allow it) – the EQG’s ‘G-Turn’ enabling the EQG prototype to rotate completely within its own length like a tracked vehicle. That’s something Schossau admits is only for off -road use, and an enjoyable and potentially useful quirk of its four electric-motor propulsion, before he adds that there will be more some innovations from the driveline. What they are Schossau isn’t yet prepared to discuss, saving F abian Schossau, chief engineer for Vehicle and eDrive G-Class at Mercedes-Benz G, is fi nding it di cult to hide his enthusiasm as we drive around Circuit Du Lastours, in France. It’s a favorite testing spot for many rally raid teams, such are the extremes its terrain off ers, and it’s where Mercedes-Benz launched the current generation of G-Class. The route we’re climbing and descending on is a precipitous track around a vineyard, on top of which is a fl atter section where higher speed off -road driving is also possible. Schossau laughs when I point to the occasional circles marked in the terrain, which reveal as much about the G-Class we’re in today as the wind turbines that also punctate 70 // March 2023 // www.electrichybridvehicletechnology.com ISSUE ARTICLES ELECTRIFYING AN ICON KYLE FORTUNE Visit Article. ISSUE LIST JULY 2023 MARCH 2023 NOVEMBER 2022 JULY 2022 MARCH 2022 NOVEMBER 2021 JULY 2021 MARCH 2021 NOVEMBER 2020 JULY 2020 Previous Next Library