First drive and Walkaround review of the Mercedes-Benz EQE 500 by Promeet Ghosh. The EQE 500 comes at an Ex-Showroom price of Rs. 1.39 Crores. It gets a 90.6kWh battery pack that produces 402bhp amd 857Nm through two electric motors. The Mercedes-Benz EQE 500 4Matic gets an all-wheel drive setup thanks to one electric motor in the front and one in the rear. Watch our video to know more about this new electric SUV!
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00:13 So, hi guys and welcome to DriveSpark, I am Prameet and as you can see that we are in
00:18 Paradise, India, that is Gulmarg, Kashmir and we are here to drive this.
00:23 Now, this is the all-new Mercedes-Benz EQV SUV, that's the EQV 500.
00:28 It's a full electric car and let's quickly start this video and I'll tell you everything
00:31 you need to know about this electric SUV.
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00:39 So, let's start talking about the price of this SUV.
00:41 Now, this SUV was launched a few days back and this carries a starting price of Rs. 1.39
00:47 crore ex-showroom and as you can see over here, the front end is again very similar
00:52 to the EQ series of the Mercedes.
00:55 You have this massive light unit, now this is a digital light from Mercedes-Benz and
01:00 this has more than 1 million pixels and obviously it's a complete digital unit, you do not need
01:04 any fog light, you can see that the fog light is missing from here, you have this covering
01:07 over here but you have a sensor, you do not get a fog light with this car.
01:11 Plus, this is the DRL that connects both the headlights, obviously you have the DRLs that
01:16 run from here, connects all the way and it looks absolutely fantastic at night.
01:20 You have a big Mercedes logo over here, you have a Mercedes emblem over here as well,
01:24 you have a front parking camera, now this thing is piano black and this grille is completely
01:28 blocked, again you have the Mercedes stars all around, looks really nice.
01:33 The secondary grille is open, obviously it's for some air to pass and you have some amount
01:37 of chrome that's present on the lower part of the bumper.
01:40 You have parking sensors all over and as you can see that the front end looks absolutely
01:45 fantastic, the hood lines and pieces are a little subtle but yeah, they make the car
01:49 look much more muscular from the front end and moving on to the side profile, if you
01:55 see, now there's one thing that I would like to tell you is that this hood of the car,
02:01 this hood does not open, this is a fixed hood, so just in case if anything goes wrong, you'll
02:05 have to go to the Mercedes showroom and they will remove this hood, so, I mean yeah, there
02:09 is no engine in this, so the hood cannot be opened.
02:12 Again, you have body cladding all over on the sides and you get massive 20-inch alloy
02:16 wheels, obviously you have an option to upgrade to 21s or maybe 22s, that's an option from
02:21 the accessory part of Mercedes and as I was saying, the body cladding runs all over, you
02:25 get a side footstep over here, you get body coloured ORVM, EQE badging, again, Mercedes
02:30 bans written everywhere possible, camera, you have a puddle light with the Mercedes
02:36 logo that projects down, you do not get roof rails on the side, plus, you can see over
02:41 here, this gets this window trim, now this is not actually chrome, but this is brushed
02:45 aluminium, now you get chrome on the door handles and this is how you open the door
02:50 handle, you swipe it, it comes out and when you want to lock it, you just have to press
02:55 this thing and this will basically go back inside, so it's a flush door handle, looks
02:59 very neat, now you can see that again, the lines and freezes on the side are very less,
03:05 you have a line over here, then a small line carries and it joins the tail light over here.
03:11 Now this is the side profile and you do not get any antenna on the front, the roof is
03:17 present in black, obviously half of it is till here, you have the black and from here
03:22 to there at the front, you have the panoramic sunroof, looks absolutely fantastic.
03:26 Now let's move on to the rear profile of the car.
03:33 So this is how the rear profile looks like, you have your EQE 500 badging over here, your
03:36 4matic badging over here and our connected LED light, again, full LED setup, looks absolutely
03:41 fine, fantastic, you get this wiper along with the washer, this is the spoiler of the
03:46 car, you have a high stop light, defoggers and again, this is the logo, it has the camera
03:51 inside, so when you switch to the reverse or you switch to the 360 degree camera, this
03:56 thing flips open and this thing also acts as a boot release, I'll just show it to you
04:00 in a second, you get chrome on the lower part of the bumper, reflectors over there and this
04:04 is how you open the boot.
04:06 So it's an hydraulic boot, it's an electric boot and you can see that the boot, once you
04:11 open it, it stops over here, but if you press it again, it'll go all the way up, so again,
04:17 you have your spare wheel over here, you have 3 bags kept, so if you remove the spare wheel,
04:21 you have close to around 500 litres of boot space and you get your equipments and everything
04:25 underneath, so yeah, boot space is fine, you also get a parcel tray that you can put on
04:30 and put some light luggage on and if you wanna close the boot, this is how, you just close
04:35 it on the best features because you do not need to use your hands and now let's quickly
04:39 move on to the inside and tell you what do you get in this all new electric SUV.
04:43 Now we are at the back seat and as you can see over here, this seat is adjusted around
04:55 to my height, for reference, I'm 6'1 and you can see that the amount of legroom, kneeroom
05:00 I've got, under support is also very nice, you have 4 zone climate control, so basically
05:05 you can operate it from here and you can see that the AC vents are present over here, it
05:10 gets some copper elements, that looks nice, along with the brushed aluminium, you have
05:14 piano black finishing and you have your door handles again that is finished in piano black,
05:19 you have a Burmester sound system, we have soft touch materials basically everywhere,
05:24 so if you have 4 people travelling, you can just deploy this, you notice that there is
05:27 no cup holders over here, so to access the cup holders, when you press once, this, only
05:33 this much open, so it is very difficult to judge whether you have to pull it out or what,
05:37 but in order to do that, just press it a little bit and the cup holders will come out automatically
05:42 and this is basically to keep your phone or hold your phone, so I'll just demonstrate
05:45 it once again, you press it once, it opens over here, you press it slightly and pop it
05:50 out and this is how you fold it back, you have 3 headrests, all 3 are adjustable, but
05:56 I think this is best suited for 2 people, 3 people can sit, I mean they won't find it
06:02 very difficult and this is the panoramic sunroof I was talking about, it starts all the way
06:05 from here till the front, so obviously it looks black from ahead, so this is how the
06:11 rear end looks like and yeah, let's go to the front end and I'll tell you more about
06:14 that.
06:15 Now we are at the front seat of the EQV500 and first things first, it is, I mean you
06:24 just have a look at it, this is the screens that you get on the EQS and this is a 56-inch
06:32 display, basically consists of 3 screens, 1, 2 and 3, so this is for the passenger,
06:37 this is the main screen, I mean just look at the size of this screen and this again
06:41 is your cluster, so cluster is completely digital and you have a ton of information
06:46 that you can get from this, I mean obviously that screen is really nice because the passenger
06:51 can sit and watch something, just in case if the driver is trying to watch something,
06:55 the video that is going on over there will pause and it'll actually create a blind spot
07:00 for the driver so that the driver does not get distracted, again soft touch materials
07:04 all over, you get these AC vents, the side AC vents as you can see are in the form of
07:09 this turbine and these are the AC vents, the centre AC vents, again you have a Burmester
07:17 sound system as I mentioned but it's a 15-speaker sound system, sounds absolutely mesmerising,
07:22 the sunroof as I mentioned comes all the way up to the front and you have some amount of
07:27 storage over here, so you get your wireless charger, your cup holder and your key slot
07:31 just in case if your battery is low, you can place the key over here and start the car,
07:36 you have again ton of storage space, you can just see till where my hand is going over
07:40 here, so I think this much of storage space you have, so this will fit like easily, it
07:45 will fit like 1 litre bottle and again the seat is very comfortable, I'll be talking
07:50 about it when I'm driving the car, so your steering wheel is not a flat bottom but you
07:55 have this nice grip to it, everything is completely leather, steering mount controls are absolutely
08:01 fine, you have brushed aluminium finish over here and as you can see that the interiors
08:05 are finished in this white and this tan brown with the contrast stitching, looks really
08:11 nice. So yeah guys, this was the EQV 500, the interior, I hope you liked it, comment
08:18 below what did you feel about the interior of this all new SUV and now let's go and drive
08:23 the car and then I'll tell you how it is to drive on the road.
08:25 So now we're at the driving seat of the all new Mercedes EQV 500 4Matic SUV and we're
08:37 going a bit slow because roads are little broken over here but yeah, let's just talk
08:44 about the suspension since we are on broken roads, suspension obviously is electronically
08:48 adjustable, it has, you can lift the vehicle if the road is very dicey, if you see any
08:55 boulders and all, so you can raise it or lower it as per your convenience and obviously it
09:00 is very comfortable for, I mean on the road since, I mean the suspension setup can be
09:06 customised according to the driver's need. Now let's talk about the specifications of
09:12 this vehicle, first of all this is an electric vehicle so it has electric motors and a battery
09:18 pack. So the battery pack is a 90.6 kilowatt hour battery pack and the electric motor is,
09:23 I mean basically you have two electric motors, one drives the front wheels, one drives the
09:27 rear wheels, that's why it's a four wheel drive, 4Matic is what Mercedes calls it and
09:33 yeah this thing has got some serious power and torque figures, so it's got around 402
09:39 bhp of power and it's got around 858 nm of peak torque and I actually can't, because
09:47 we're in a restricted area, speed limit is around 30 over here, so I can't just show
09:53 you how fast this vehicle goes, but I'll just blip the throttle to show you what the acceleration
09:57 feels like, so right now I'm doing like 10 kilometres an hour, this is what happens if
10:02 you just floor it once. So yeah, I mean it just shoots, the vehicle is very very fast,
10:10 I mean if someone, a new person is driving it and if you just close it, I mean you just
10:15 push back into the seat, it is just next level because there's no mechanical losses, the
10:21 electric motors are driving the wheels directly, so because of that, again there are no losses,
10:26 so you get instant pickup and yeah, what you saw over here is that Mercedes has a feature
10:33 that they have added, so what you can do is, if you drive with one hand, it'll just go
10:38 to the, it'll just tell you to either stop or to grab both the, I mean grab the steering
10:45 wheel with both the hands and yeah, so that is a really nice thing, so if you're dozing
10:51 off also, it'll pop up all the alarms and everything and now let's talk about the steering
10:56 wheel, steering wheel is relatively light, there are a lot of modes that you get with
10:59 this, so basically you get around five modes, you get off-road, you get normal, comfort,
11:04 eco, dynamic and individual, with the individual mode, you can customise everything as per
11:09 your need and with every mode, like for example, if you're on eco, everything will be light,
11:14 everything will have a lag, so in eco mode, the steering wheel will become really light,
11:18 throttle response will be really light and I mean yeah, you will feel that there is slight
11:23 amount of lag but we would recommend you to drive it in the comfort mode, comfort mode
11:26 will give you the best of both worlds, so yeah, it'll weigh up the steering wheel, throttle
11:31 response will become a little crisp and in dynamic, everything will be on sport mode,
11:35 including the suspension, got good ground clearance, so you don't have to worry about
11:41 that and yeah, from a standstill, if you just put back, oh, this thing just flies and let's
11:48 talk about the charging facility that this vehicle has, so the claimed range for this
11:53 vehicle is around 520-521 kilometres to a full charge but I mean, we have not been able
12:01 to test it, we are driving this since morning and charges dropped only till like 97% from
12:07 99% but the charging facility that this car provides is approximately, you can, this actually
12:14 supports around 150 kilowatt of charging and through the regular fast charger that you
12:20 have, you can charge the vehicle from 10% to 80% in under, say like between under 10
12:27 hours, maybe 9.5 to 10 hours and I think that's enough, so once it's charged, you'll get a
12:32 range of around 500 plus, on the real world, I don't know how much will it show, we'll
12:36 take the car later and we'll tell you what is the real world mileage, the range mileage
12:43 of the EQE 500, so other than that, seats are very comfortable, you can adjust them
12:48 according to your needs, they have massage functions and they have a lot of, I mean,
12:52 it's ventilated, I mean, you have all the features that you can imagine with this car
12:57 and plus it's silent because obviously it's an electric car, so on high speeds, you only
13:01 get the tyre noise, overall, very comfortable, feature loaded, it's got everything in front
13:07 of you, you've got three screens, basically it's three screens but I mean, if you accumulate
13:11 it, it's totally 56 inches of display is there in front of you but overall guys, good vehicle,
13:19 got a lot of features, it's very fast, very powerful, looks also stylish and it's available
13:25 in nine colour options, so yeah, if you're looking for an electric SUV and you have the
13:30 budget, that's around 1.4 CRX showroom and if you have the budget, you should definitely
13:35 go check out the all-new Mercedes EQE 500 4MATIC.
13:38 So that was the all-new Mercedes EQE 500 4MATIC and if you have any questions about this vehicle,
13:48 please mention it down in the comment section and we will get back to you on that and that
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13:54 media channels, once again, I will tell you the price of this vehicle, so this vehicle
13:59 carries a starting price of Rs. 1.39 CRX showroom. I'm Pramit signing out, see you next time,
14:05 thank you so much for watching, take care, be safe and drive safe.
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