- Mercedes-Benz is reportedly engaged on an electrical AMG supercar
- The electrical supercar could be the SLS AMG Electrical Drive’s successor
- The 2023 Imaginative and prescient One-Eleven idea might need previewed the brand new supercar
Mercedes-Benz’s AMG efficiency division is planning an electrical supercar that would function a successor to the SLS AMG Electrical Drive, studies Autocar.
Unveiled on the 2012 Paris auto present, the SLS AMG Electrical Drive was a limited-production by-product of the gasoline SLS AMG sports activities automotive. It changed the usual automotive’s 6.2-liter V-8 with 4 electrical motors, which produced a mixed 740 hp and 737 lb-ft of torque—way more than the gasoline model.
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electrical Drive
Whereas it had spectacular specs, the SLS AMG Electrical Drive was extra of an early electrification experiment than a fully-realized product. Mercedes initially deliberate to construct 100 vehicles, however solely 9 had been truly produced, in accordance with a 2021 RM Sotheby’s public sale itemizing for a type of vehicles.
In each gasoline and electrical types, the SLS featured gullwing doorways as an homage to the traditional Mercedes-Benz 300 SL of the Fifties. Based on Autocar, the brand new electrical supercar may take the retro theme even additional, taking design inspiration from the Imaginative and prescient One-Eleven, an EV idea unveiled in 2023 as a contemporary tribute to the Mercedes-Benz C111 sequence of prototypes from the Nineteen Seventies.
Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient One-Eleven idea
The Imaginative and prescient One Eleven served as a showcase for axial-flux motors developed by Yasa, a U.Okay. firm Mercedes acquired in 2021. They’re going to seemingly be used within the manufacturing supercar as effectively, in accordance with Autocar, though configuration and output are nonetheless unclear. Yasa beforehand mentioned one motor may ship 489 hp.
Autocar additionally studies that the supercar can have cylindrical battery cells with silicon-anode battery tech from U.S. agency Sila. The corporate, which counts Mercedes as an investor, claimed a 20% vary increase from its silicon anodes in 2023. Mercedes beforehand confirmed plans to make use of Sila’s silicon anodes in a longer-range model of the electrical G-Class SUV, due later within the decade.
Prototype for first EV totally developed by Mercedes-Benz AMG
The supercar will use the EV-specific modular platform dubbed AMG.EA that can debut in an upcoming electrical substitute for right this moment’s AMG GT 4-Door, in accordance with the report. Primarily based on the Imaginative and prescient AMG idea revealed in 2022, the four-door is predicted to reach in 2025 or later.
AMG has already produced extra highly effective variations of current Mercedes EVs. However an all-electric supercar will assist show that this combustion-engine model can really grasp efficiency EVs.
