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Mercedes CEO says Tesla is the leader in EVs right now, but new ‘EQ’ brand
will be #1 by 2025
You can’t blame to Germans for not having a long-term vision. In interviews
at the 2016 Paris Motor Show after unveiling Mercedes’ new all-electric ‘EQ
’ brand, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche admitted that Tesla is currently the
leader in electric vehicles, but he plans for his company to catch up to
Tesla and become the new leader by 2025.
When asked by a Bloomberg reporter whether or not Tesla is the main
competitor for Mercedes ‘EQ’, Zetsche said:
“At that point in time, obviously yes. We have set for ourselves a target 5
years ago where we are tracking behind to become the number 1 premium car
manufacturer by 2020, but it looks like we are awful close right now already.
Now we are setting a new target to ourselves and that’s to be the leader in
electric premium vehicles as well – latest by 2025.”
That’s certainly a bold statement for a 9-year prediction. In comparison,
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that anything more than 5 years is an eternity for
him and that’s why all of Tesla’s recently announced vehicle programs,
including the all-electric ‘Tesla Semi’ truck, which will compete with
Daimler’s own truck division, are all planned within the next 5 years.
What the electric vehicle market, or the car market for that matter, will
look like in 2025 is very hard to predict – especially when you consider
what has been going on in electrification and self-driving technology in the
past few years.
Nonetheless, it certainly exciting to see more competition in electric
vehicles, even though it’s in the premium segment.
The ‘Generation EQ’ all-electric SUV unveiled by Mercedes last week will be
the first all-electric vehicle built by Mercedes from the ground-up since the
electric Mercedes B-Class had a Tesla powertrain. 3 more vehicles, two sedans
and another SUV, are expected within the next few years and a total of 10
electric vehicles are expected under the new ‘EQ’ unit by 2025.
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Mercedes CEO說目前Tesla是電動車的龍頭沒錯
但是Mercedes新發表的EQ系列將會在2025超越Tesla成為電動車的龍頭
希望說到要做到啊
不管誰當龍頭都好，但是要當龍頭就必須在性能與續航力這兩個電動車最大的指標上領先
目前Benz發表的EQ概念車性能數據最大輸出功率為402馬力，最大輸出扭矩700牛頓米
0-100km/hr加速小於5秒，續航里程500公里
這些數字都比Tesla目前已經量產上市販售的比較高端的車款要來的弱
而且EQ系列預計2019才要上市
到時候Tesla又不知道進步到哪去了
我是蠻希望Mercedes可以做到當龍頭這件事情
但好歹也要有個0-100加速2.5秒內、續航力超過1000公里的車款吧
5秒內、500公里就想當領先者我覺得有點誇大了
附上巴黎車展EQ概念車的照片：
http://i.imgur.com/UpvHli1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rKHNPyI.jpg