Mercedes, but Electric
WHEN MERCEDES-BENZ BROUGHT their first production electric car to the Auto Expo 2020, many of us visited the German pavilion hoping to see a radical design. You know, with gullwing doors and cutting-edge kits like cameras and screens instead of rear-view mirrors. This was the first model coming from the company’s new all-electric EQ sub-brand, part of their “Ambition 2039” to go completely CO2-neutral in the next 19 years. To most people’s surprise, the EQC 400 has none of these gimmicky embellishments. Instead what you get is a well-built conventional-looking car, with a practical design and armed well for the mission zero-emission at hand. And if you know the history of this 132-year-old car-maker well, you would’ve expected just that.
As with everything else, the pandemic and the lockdown that followed delayed the Mercedes-Benz’s electric plans for India by a few months. But the good news is that we’re here at the company’s manufacturing plant in
