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 might function a successor to the SLS AMG Electrical Drive, reviews Autocar.
Unveiled on the 2012 Paris auto present, the SLS AMG Electrical Drive was a limited-production spinoff of the gasoline SLS AMG sports activities automobile. It changed the usual automobile’s 6.2-liter V-8 with 4 electrical motors, which produced a mixed 740 hp and 737 lb-ft of torque—far 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 really produced, based on a 2021 RM Sotheby’s public sale itemizing for a kind of vehicles.
In each gasoline and electrical varieties, the SLS featured gullwing doorways as an homage to the traditional Mercedes-Benz 300 SL of the Nineteen Fifties. Based on Autocar, the brand new electrical supercar might 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 collection 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 possible be used within the manufacturing supercar as nicely, based on Autocar, though configuration and output are nonetheless unclear. Yasa beforehand stated one motor might ship 489 hp.
Autocar additionally reviews 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 may debut in an upcoming electrical alternative for at this time’s AMG GT 4-Door, based on the report. Based mostly on the Imaginative and prescient AMG idea revealed in 2022, the four-door is anticipated 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 actually grasp efficiency EVs.