Here at TechRadar, we surely just like the Mercedes EQS. Having frolicked riding the auto, we determined the German brand’s flagship all-electric powered sedan – which mixes a tech-encumbered luxurious indoors with wonderful variety specs – to be an thrilling flavor of what is to return back withinside the car industry.

We had been even greater excited, then, to analyze that Mercedes is introducing a overall performance version of the EQS, the AMG EQS fifty three, in order to mark the company’s first-ever all-electric powered overall performance vehicle.

Ahead of its worldwide unveiling on the 2021 IAA Mobility convention on September 7 (along the EQE electric powered sedan), Mercedes has shared information of the overall performance enhancements drivers can assume from its upcoming AMG EQS fifty three – and as you’ll assume, they are sufficient to rival a number of the high-quality electric powered motors round.

Mercedes says the AMG version of its pricey EQS EV is “made for automobile lovers who’re searching out a mixture of progressive electric powered mobility in a pricey ambience, coupled with sportiness and agile riding dynamics.”

By that metric, the AMG EQS fifty three ought to supply in spades. At its coronary heart is a overall performance-orientated powertrain with  vehicles, on the the front and rear axles, which offer the EQS fifty three Mercedes’ trademark 4MATIC+ all-wheel pressure capabilities. 

The automaker says the ones vehicles will generate a strength output of 484 kW and 560 kW, respectively, relying on whether or not or now no longer drivers pick out to feature the AMG Dynamic Plus package.

Quick off the mark

Should they choose the latter, the EQS fifty three might be capable of boost up from 0-one hundred km/h (0-sixty two mph) in only three.four seconds, aleven though with out the Dynamic Plus package, drivers will nevertheless be capable of dash the identical distance in three.eight seconds. 

Those are across the identical acceleration speeds because the similar Audi e-tron GT and Porsche Taycan electric powered motors, at the same time as the EQS fifty three’s restrained pinnacle speeds of both 220 km/h (137 mph) or 250 km/h (one hundred fifty five mph) are similarly similar.

As you’ll assume, the ones figures are advanced to the same old all-wheel-pressure version of the EQS, which reaches one hundred km/h (60 mph) in round four.three seconds and sports activities a pinnacle velocity of 210 km/h (round a hundred thirty mph), aleven though they arrive on the fee of a massively inferior variety.

Mercedes says the EQS fifty three’s 107 kWh battery presents the EV as much as 580km (round 360 miles) of variety, that is dwarfed via way of means of its sibling’s magnificent 780km (kind of 484 miles) figure, made feasible via way of means of its record-breaking aerodynamic design.

Still, a 580km variety places the EQS fifty three manner in advance of its aforementioned overall performance magnificence competitors, the e-tron GT and Taycan, which corroborates Mercedes’ sporty-meets-progressive philosophy for its first all-electric powered AMG.

We’ll have greater information at the AMG EQS fifty three while it is formally unveiled on the 2021 IAA Mobility convention, aleven though we assume the auto to land a while in mid-2022.