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supercool of Mercedes give us a first look at the EQC and right off the bat you can tell it's a Mercedes Mercedes has been making cars for the last 130 years and today they just announced their brand-new all-electric vehicle the Mercedes EQC kind of an SUV type of vehicle competing with Tesla's Model X while Mercedes has been around for a hundred and thirty years Tesla's only been around for fifteen Mercedes made 2.4 million cars last year Tesla only made a hundred thousand so vientiene to see what the two companies can't come up with when comparing the two vehicles let's get started and even though it's a fully electric vehicle it does have a grille in the front which I found interesting a lot of the tests let's do not have a grille because there's no need to cool down anything inside of the engine because there's a trunk in a Tesla but the Mercedes on the other hand has its motor in the front engine compartment so the front headlights to have their LED bands that go all the way across the top giving it a very unique look and the grille is actually functional there's a cooling system inside that brings the temperature of the batteries and the motor down with the airflow the door handles are pretty normal open it up inside of the EQC let's take a look my cameraman has arrived Dan you want to hold the camera for me so I've been inside of a couple different Mercedes cars I've been inside the g-class when we did that road trip across Spain I've been inside the a-class and the S Class if you've driven a Mercedes in the past you're gonna feel right at home in this it has the same Mercedes vibe as their previous cars with a few subtle differences so we have the standard dual screens that we saw premiered with the a-class with these little buttons right here that toggle back and forth between all the information there are quite a lot of buttons in this vehicle including this trackpad but one thing I do like is that specifically Mercedes design these two look like circuit board patterns the same type of design you would see pattern inside of a cell phone or a motherboard computer as well as these silver lines going around the sides are modeled after an aluminum heatsink which is pretty cool so while mercedes has maintained true to their normal interior design there couple aspects that are more futuristic so if you've been on the Internet at all in the last couple years you know that Tesla's had some production issues obviously scaling vehicle production is one thing but there's minor issues like body panel gaps in the model 3 that Tesla has had problems with one step ahead that Mercedes has is where they've been designing vehicles for 130 years they already have those little cosmetic issues figured out and probably won't be a problem with their newer electric vehicles another cool thing is that Mercedes has dual charging with AC and DC and go from 10 percent to 80 percent in about 40 minutes which is pretty quick with how massive that battery pack is now that we've seen the outside let's jump inside the components and see how the battery pack and the motors actually work underneath the car so the interior of the car there's two motors there's one right here in the front and there's one in the back as well and so the front is a more efficient more powerful motor but if you want the performance then they combined the back and the front at the same time the front motor has more copper windings inside which makes it more efficient so the battery pack is in the floor of the car and to charge it up it's right back here also one more cool thing with the motor is that there is individual motor mounts here here and there as well as on the other side because the motor is one of the things that's gonna have the most vibrations in it as it's moving and this whole contraption is gonna keep the thing stable eliminating a lot of the noise transfer inside of the car so one cool thing about having the battery in the very bottom of the vehicle is that it gives it a low center of gravity so there won't be any rollover if you're taking corners super tight obviously with lithium ion batteries there's a couple things to be concerned about one is temperature another is like damaging like punctures to the sides and so Mercedes has taken special precautions with this frame that their side impact zones and front impact zones to keep those battery cells safe gives more structure to the side of the car so it's something impacts that has multiple layers of metal to go through before it reaches the internal battery compartments and if you look at the top of the battery these black tubes running along the top can keep the battery cool as well as warm up the battery in cold conditions where I'm from in Utah there's a lot of snow on the ground in the winter and the batteries aren't optimal when they're cold when they're in the freezer if you take your cell phone and stick it in the freezer for a couple hours your battery percentage is actually going to go down so where the cooling and heating system are combined in this battery you can drive the car optimally in cold conditions which is pretty cool so these are the individual cells inside of the battery pack right here and the battery pack sits inside of the massive chassis over there it's interesting that Mercedes chose to go with the pouch style with the mi on instead of the cylindrical batteries like Tesla does so where there are three hundred and eighty four of these pouch style lithium batteries inside of the EQC Tesla has about 7,000 of those little cylindrical batteries inside of their car with the same battery capacity one cool thing about the EQC is that it has two motors so it's effectively all-wheel drive if one of the motors for some reason stops working the other motor can take over and fully power the entire car whereas if you have a gas-powered vehicle if your motor dies it's over and done with so it's nice to have like a redundant system in an electric car with two motors so there's no official price point on the EQC yet but rumor has it is supposed to be competitive with the Model X when it comes out and my buddy Ben here has had a Model X for a long time so what are your thoughts how do you feel are you gonna trade in your Model X for this thing I like the car I'm availabilities supposed to be in the US maybe early 2020 which is around the same time I'll be getting my roadster so I'm gonna hold onto my Model X for a few more years like there's no reason to go and like put down a deposit I think I can wait a little bit but I do like this car and I think there's still a lot that we need to learn about it over the next few years like what is the super charging network or the charging network going to look like in the US because right now it's kind of weak and really weak compared to my Tesla I love road trips what is the price going to be rumors are it's gonna be less expensive than the Model X we don't know yet it's gonna be a while till we know for the u.s. so it's a good-looking car and we're Mercedes build something they build it with really really high quality they've taken a long time to build this thing and I think a lot of the reasons is because they're doing a lot of different testing on it I'm sure that there's going to be a lot more thought behind this than the Tesla's that are some would say thrown together in a rush from a car company that's only been around for a few years so Mercedes has been around for a long time and I love my Tesla I love it but I know I've never I haven't even driven in it yet so I need a test drive okay so back to you would you trade in your Tacoma for this next week first of all there's no good I need a truck and there's no good electric trucks right now that are ready to buy and also one thing to keep in mind is that this Mercedes car like Dan said is still way out down the road it's not even gonna be released in the United States until maybe 2020 so even though Mercedes has been around for 130 years there's still a baby in the current electric market space where Tesla would be the adult even after 15 years of being there it's exciting I love it like there's a lot of questions like would you buy this over a model 3 I think I would feel like it's nicer especially if the price points closer as of right now as of right now remember the model 3 is gonna be like a year and a half old by the time Ryan comes out right you might have a $35,000 model 3 in a year could go either way overall though this is great this is great for sustainable energy this is great for the future of electric cars more competition people that have been on the fence and said I'm not gonna buy a Tesla it's not a legit car company they're gonna look at this and say oh look at this Mercedes has an electric car it must be ok to get an electric car and they might start looking into it and buy a car and that's good yeah the more knowledge and the more cars and the more information that's out there is better for everyone we do know that the top speed is right around 110 miles per hour so it's a little bit slower than the Tesla's but the EQC does have regenerative braking so every time you step on the brake it can charge the batteries or if you're going downhill charge the batteries and that's a good feature to have in an electric car most people are never gonna buy an electric car just to save the planet they're gonna buy an electric car when it's performance and the price outweighs its gas-powered counterparts and as more car manufacturers jump into the industry the overall price should come down while the performance should go up competition is always a good thing and the more competition there is and the lower the price is the more people are going to be buying electric vehicles which helps the planet overall Mercedes is working on their own version of autopilot with a bunch of cameras up there behind the rear-view mirror as well as radar behind the Mercedes logo which also lights up underneath this LED bar up at the top and then there's another camera right here down at the bottom so on the back of the car we have the gas cap it opens up and we have the AC and DC charging right here top and bottom and it also has a QR code right here and that QR code is for emergency responders if they come in the car has been wrecked or been in an accident or something like that the emergency spotters can scan that QR code and know exactly where to turn off the battery and help the person inside so we don't know the exact range of the EQC but it does have an 80 kilowatt hour battery which means it should be around 250 to 300 miles give or take a little bit and which is pretty interesting compared to the different battery pack inside of the Tesla remember this one has those flat batteries that I showed you earlier the nice thing about Mercedes stepping into the electric car world means that now everyone needs to step up their game and it's just going to be improvement for all the consumers around who want an electric vehicle super huge thanks to Mercedes for having us out if you have any questions go ahead and leave them down in the comments and I'll try to answer those and think not for watching I'll see you around