2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS 580 First Drive: A Whole New Ball Game
Auto123 gets in a first drive of the 2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS 580 4Matic.
San Francisco, CA - The Mercedes-EQ EQS 580 – not the Mercedes-Benz EQS, but the Mercedes-EQ EQS – is the first vehicle sold in North America bearing anything resembling the “EQ” name, that is the badge to be supported by Mercedes’ EV models going forward. We’ve seen the EQA, B and C in Europe already (there’s a van, too) but for North America, they’ve brought out the big guns with the EQS, a roughly S-Class-sized sedan that, admittedly, looks pretty much nothing like an S-Class.
The S-Class is pretty much the industry standard when it comes to big luxury sedans, so if Mercedes is going to make a splash in the quickly expanding world of EV luxury, its entry into the all-electric big luxury sedan segment needs to be a goody; it has some massive shoes to fill.
Considering our launch location just outside of San Francisco in Silicon Valley, however, it would appear that the customer base Mercedes hopes is going after is of a different ilk than the hip-hop artists and white-haired CEOs that the S-Class has always spoken too. Indeed, it’s the younger tech exec – the Tesla crowd – that the EQS is aimed at.
Read more