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2027 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV caught on video


  • The primary devoted EV from Mercedes-Benz AMG is within the works
  • Set to debut round late 2025, the EV can be based mostly on AMG’s personal AMG.EA modular platform
  • The EV can be a big, super-sleek, four-door hatchback

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

The Affalterbach tuner already affords its personal variations of Mercedes’ EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and is presently engaged on its first devoted EV, a prototype for which has been noticed once more.

The devoted EV can be based mostly on AMG’s personal modular EV platform, referred to as AMG.EA, and is predicted to debut in late 2025 or early the next yr. The timing suggests it’s going to attain the U.S. as a 2027 mannequin.

Because the spy photographs and video present, the EV can be a tremendous modern hatchback with 4 doorways, making it a possible electrical various to the present GT 4-Door Coupe, a automobile whose title it could 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.

Mercedes additionally introduced in February 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 effectively into the following decade, and presumably longer. This implies the GT 4-Door Coupe with a gasoline engine might stick round 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 confirmed by AMG to function axial-flux motors developed by Yasa, an organization wholly owned by Mercedes that makes a speciality of high-performance electrical motors.

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

Mercedes-Benz Vision AMG concept

Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea

Mercedes-Benz Vision AMG concept

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 emblem just like what’s used on AMG’s Formulation 1 vehicles, in addition to the One hypercar. An lively rear spoiler can clearly be seen in among the spy photographs.

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

Earlier than the arrival of its first devoted EV, AMG is predicted to introduce a tuned model of a future electrical CLA-Class, a future electrical C-Class, and a future electrical GLC-Class.

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