Mercedes-Benz EQS

Among the 383 Mercedes-Benz entries in the MotorJury library, the Mercedes-Benz EQS holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2021. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Mercedes-Benz EQS properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Kia Kia EV6, the Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Nissan Nissan Z — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mercedes-Benz EQS reads like this: the record lists its engine as electric motor; quoted output is 215 kW (EQS 350) / 245 kW (EQS 450+) / 2 with total 265 kW (450 4MATIC) / 2 with total 330 kW (500 4MATIC) / 2 with total 385 kW (580 4MATIC) / 2 with total 484-560 kW (EQS 53 AMG ; kerb weight is recorded at 2480 -; drive goes through Direct-drive automatic; the layout is Rear-motor, rear-wheel-drive / Dual-motor, all-wheel-drive (4Matic). Worked together, those figures give roughly 87 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Mercedes-Benz story

Within Mercedes-Benz's own catalogue the Mercedes-Benz EQS sits alongside the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, the Mercedes-Benz C124, the Mercedes-Benz C253, the Mercedes-Benz C254. The record names the successor = as its predecessor and the designer = Robert Lešnik, Lukas Haag, Mark Fetherston, Gabriel Nemeth, Balázs Filczer as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Robert Lešnik, Lukas Haag, Mark Fetherston, Gabriel Nemeth, Balázs Filczer. Assembly is recorded at plainlist| / Germany: Sindelfingen / India: Pune (MBI) / Thailand: Samut Prakan ( ) / Malaysia: Pekan (HICOM).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Mercedes-Benz EQS was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.