Mercedes-Benz USA has posted a brand new product known as “Acceleration Enhance” to its on-line store’s web site. The brand new service prices $1,200 for one 12 months (excluding tax) of the service, which may enhance an EQ car’s acceleration by 0.8 to 1.0 seconds.
The automaker writes that the brand new service will “unleash enhanced efficiency in your automobile” and provides it a “noticeable enchancment in acceleration.” It’s going to do that by adjusting the “motor attribute curve, torque, and most output.”
Mercedes provides that fine-tuning of the electrical motors permits for a rise of most motor output for a Mercedes EQ car by 20 to 24 %, relying on the unique manufacturing unit output.
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As reported by The Drive, to this point, “Acceleration Enhance” is out there on 4 autos. The EQE 350 4Matic‘s output is elevated from 288 hp (215 kW/292 PS) to 349 hp (260 kW/354PS), which remains to be lower than the EQE 500 4Matic. It does, nonetheless, enable it to hit 60 mph (96 km/h) in 5.1 seconds, as a substitute of the 6.0 seconds it initially took.
The Mercedes EQE SUV 350 4Matic, in the meantime, will get the identical energy enhance, which permits it to hit freeway speeds in simply 5.2 seconds, as a substitute of the 6.2 seconds it’s rated at from the manufacturing unit.
For the Mercedes EQS 450 4Matic and the EQS SUV 450 4Matic, in the meantime, energy is elevated from 355 hp (265 kW/360 PS) to 443 hp (330 kW/449 PS). These 108 additional horses (65 kW/89 PS) imply that the sedan can hit 60 mph (96 km/h) in simply 4.5 seconds, down from 5.3 seconds, and the SUV can attain the pace in 4.9 seconds, down from 5.8 seconds.
We have now reached out to Mercedes-Benz USA for extra info on this product, however the brand new has to this point evoked recollections of the subscription providers which were tried by different automakers and bemoaned by shoppers. The service has been in comparison with BMW‘s makes an attempt to cost prospects for wi-fi Apple CarPlay or heated seats, that are features that the car was all the time able to delivering, however that prospects had been barred from accessing until they paid an additional charge.
Mercedes will probably be extra occupied with what number of shoppers truly purchase “Acceleration Enhance” when it turns into obtainable, which the corporate’s web site signifies will probably be “quickly.”