Mercedes-Benz C-Class EV confirmed with classic sedan proportions, over 800km range

Mercedes-Benz will continue its exhausting pivot faraway from the ultra-aerodynamic EQ electric era by striking an electrical C-Class sedan into production with classical three-field styling—albeit with one abundant twist.

On the eve of this twelve months’s IAA Munich motor expose, Mercedes-Benz chief govt Ola Källenius confirmed to media that the Stuttgart-primarily based marque will invent an adaptation of the C-Class on the emblem’s MBEA platform that also underpins the GLC Electric published earlier these days.

In an identical mumble to the GLC, the drawing shut battery electric (BEV) C-Class is just not any longer going to be associated below the pores and skin to the W206 petrol/hybrid model of the ‘C’ that has been on sale in Australia since 2023.

Following tepid sales of Mercedes-Benz’s sequence of EQ-badged electric automobiles, which grew to alter into known for their hardcore aerodynamic aesthetics, the emblem is switching its ‘core vehicle’ arrangement toward extra acquainted styling and worthy names no topic the powertrain source.

Launched alongside the confirmation of the C-Class EV became a sole teaser image that unearths one controversial component to the manufacture of the BMW i4 rival: the same ultra-notorious chrome entrance grille because the GLC Electric, and reputedly at an identical scale.

As smartly because the present BMW i4, other key competitors to the C-Class EV will encompass the segment-main Tesla Mannequin 3, BYD Seal, the anticipated Audi A4 e-tron, and BMW’s drawing shut ‘Neue Klasse’ i3 sedan.

“With our unique, dedicated Electric Architectures for core automobiles, possibilities will rep finest proportions on the skin and most region on the interior, along side superior utilizing dynamics,” a Mercedes-Benz spokesperson talked about.

The teaser image also unearths a 3-pointed star sample for the sunlight hours running lights of the C-Class EV, plus a chrome-trimmed daylight opening sitting proper sooner than a rounded rear haunch that means aero styling might well well no longer be entirely dull and buried.

The electric effectivity of the C-Class EV is presupposed to be superior to that of the GLC with a aim of larger than 800km of utilizing fluctuate (WLTP) evaluating to 713km, essentially the most fluctuate of the GLC400.

Adore the GLC Electric and the corporate’s unique CLA BEV, the C-Class Electric is predicted to utilise a 94kWh (usable) nickel manganese cobalt battery pack. A soar-to-soar Hyperscreen will be doubtless to defend up all the device by from GLC to C-Class.

The electrical architecture underpinning the MBEA platform is able to 800-volt charging. The associated GLC can tag at up to 330kW, while that vehicle’s GLC400 open powertrain is a 360kW, twin-motor AWD vehicle.

Request to see a mix of rear-wheel power and twin-motor AWD versions of the electrical C-Class—along side eventual AMG items.

Real open timing for the C-Class Electric has no longer yet been confirmed. Prototype versions continue to be tested on European roads, implying a imaginable production vehicle show in 2026.