The best plug-in hybrids on the market are “ending”, the carmaker is stopping the development of engines – FonTech

German carmaker Mercedes produces some of the best, if not the best plug-in hybrids on the market. However, Dausler’s head of development, Markus Schäfer, announced at the IAA conference in Munich that the carmaker is stopping the development of new plug-in hybrid engines, informs Handelsblatt.

It’s a huge pity, as Mercedes was one of the few to produce truly usable plug-in hybrids. For example, the range of such a GLE model purely on electricity is more than 80 km and the 31 kWh battery is charged with a power of 60 kW within half an hour.

This great SUV also convinced us of how great a plug-in hybrid from Mercedes is. route from Bratislava to Košice without turning on the burner. We probably wouldn’t be able to do that with any other plug-in hybrid.

He sees the future in pure electromobility

At a conference in Munich, Schäfer revealed that the development of plug-in hybrid engines is extremely expensive and complex. The carmaker wants to focus more on the development of clean electric cars, in which it sees the future.

Plug-in hybrids were considered only as a kind of “intermediate stage” in the transition from incinerators to clean electric cars. Some motorists claim that plug-in hybrid motorization is the best and combines the benefits of both drives. Short routes can be run on electricity and cheaply, on longer routes they can rely on an internal combustion engine.

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The second group of drivers, on the other hand, claims that the plug-in hybrid combines the disadvantages of both drives and thus a small electric range and high petrol consumption when the battery is discharged. Be that as it may, top plug-in hybrids from Mercedes will only benefit from the existing motorization, we will not see a new one, he writes. Electrive.

Mercedes is doing everything to the fullest, so great plug-in hybrids are gradually replacing even better electric cars. We can mention, for example, the entrance gate to the world of electric Mercedes, the EQA model, whose review you can review read here.

We are even EQA discharged to full zero, when the car still managed to cover a few more kilometers. The top of the electric car presented by the German premium is the Mercedes EQS, with which we had the honor at the Slovak premiere.

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At the IAA conference in Munich, the carmaker also presented other new electric cars, such as the concept EQG or Maybach EQS. In addition to them, we got to know the production version EQE.