Mercedes-Benz AMG already affords the GT Coupe sports activities automobile and GT 4-Door Coupe hatchback as fashions distinct from something within the common Mercedes lineup, and shortly an SUV may be added to that listing.
Citing nameless sources, Autocar reported on Friday that AMG is already at work on a standalone SUV based mostly by itself AMG.EA EV platform that’s set to debut subsequent yr in an electrical successor to the GT 4-Door Coupe. Prototypes for the electrical hatchback have already been noticed.
The SUV will reportedly observe the hatch in 2026, which factors to it probably arriving within the U.S. as a 2027 mannequin.
The design of the SUV is predicted to be previewed by an idea. Do not search for a sporty, compact design, although. In accordance with Autocar’s sources, the idea will likely be comparable in size to the 200-inch lengthy Imaginative and prescient AMG idea from 2022, which previews the design of the hatchback. It is seemingly the manufacturing SUV will likely be simply as giant, to match the dimensions of BMW M’s XM flagship SUV and probably Porsche’s new K1 flagship SUV due round 2027.
Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AMG idea
AMG has stated its AMG.EA platform will introduce quite a few new improvements for the model, one in every of which is axial-flux motor know-how. Mercedes in 2021 acquired the British firm Yasa, which focuses on high-performance electrical motors and can seemingly provide the axial-flux motors for automobiles based mostly on the AMG.EA platform.
Axial-flux motors are each lighter and smaller than typical radial-flux motors of comparable output. As a information, a motor weighing simply over 50 kilos can ship round 480 hp, and a number of models could possibly be put in to take energy ranges as much as insane ranges. Nevertheless, manufacturing the motors is harder than for radial-flux motors, making them much more costly.
Along with its motors, the AMG.EA platform can be anticipated to learn from a high-performance high-voltage battery developed utilizing AMG’s F1 know-how, significantly within the areas of vitality discharging and restoration, and maybe additionally cooling.
Manufacturing will seemingly happen at a plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. It is the place the present GT 4-Door Coupe is constructed, and the place the automobile’s electrical successor can be more likely to be constructed.