Mercedes-Benz Making Electric AMG Sportscar
This is the green vehicle that we want.
When Mercedes-Benz decided to invest into Tesla Motors and said that the two companies would be tapping into each other's resources, we knew that meant tried-and-true parts for Tesla's vehicles and some electric pioneering to Mercedes-Benz's next generation vehicles. And it's all coming true.
Last week Mercedes-Benz announced the SLS AMG with electric drive, which the company calls "the exciting future of the super sports car."
Interestingly, this electric supercar isn't on that Tesla is involved (but don't be surprised to see that change in future vehicles). The SLS AMG is a product of Deutsche Accumotive GmbH & Co. KG, a joint venture between Daimler AG and Evonik Industries AG, which will provide the battery technology.
Now for the specs that car nuts are waiting for: 526 hp and 649 lb-ft, which Mercedes-Benz says will push the car from 0-62 mph in under four seconds. With four electric motors, the electric SLS AMG is AWD. Compare that to the similar performing 563 hp and 479 lb-ft or the 6.3-liter V8 and you have a touch choice on your hands.
"With the SLS AMG with electric drive, we wanted to redefine the super sports car. For us, it is not just about responsibility. We attach just as much importance to excitement and classic AMG performance," says Volker Mornhinweg, Chief Executive Officer of Mercedes-AMG GmbH.
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Cool. I liked the idea of the Tesla sports car. I sure would like to see this Benz in action.
Am I on the correct web site?
Not Mercedes Benz... Mercedes Electric... They label it as such on their cars. I have seen it. Benz (for those who don't know) means 'gasoline'.
Yea, it wouldn't have anything to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz
Idiot
I hope it has enough juice to make it out the driveway.
Uh, Benz is for Karl Benz, one of the founders of Daimler-Benz.
...and about an hour of battery life
Benzin means gasoline in german nicht "benz"
"Interestingly, this electric supercar isn't on that Tesla is involved (but don't be surprised to see that change in future vehicles)."
"and you have a touch choice on your hands." ?
touch?
Other than the above sentences that made me go "uhmm...what?", this article is pretty cool and my WORD how cool will that car be!?!
And i expect the battery life to last well over an hour.
that glowing exhaust manifold make me wanna cook something on it
cool, hopefully with Mercedes getting involved in electric cars then maybe the rule will finally be broken about environmental cars having to look so damn ugly that people would be too embarrassed to be seen in one of them.
...and the batteries alone will cost more than my car
if this thing works anything like a railgun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI
lol fast
An engine with that much power must drain it's batteries in a matter of hours... (or runs perhaps 10 miles on a charge).
Hot damn!!!
To have the balls to produce this car, there must be something unique about those batteries!
The cost will be out of a range I likely will be able to ever afford, but nice regardless.
have yet to see more details how they did it, this could be a well designed electric car.
batteries.....where do they hide the small fusion reactor?! Also, something we can all relate to better, how the hell are they gonna cool engines of that power!? That is a huge amount of heat being produced.
And those cars are beautiful.
Shit, I should have snaked a couple of webpages of Tom's Hardware Site when this was a site about... HARDWARE!!!! I've had it with this has-been site, now looks like a mediocre magazine I wouldn't even read in the subway... Dr. Thomas Pabst, please start a new one. And stick to it, this time.