Name: First Drive in an All Electric Mercedes – Whats Under The Hood?!
Uploaded: 2020-03-06T17:26:33.000Z
Duration: 11 min 50 s
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Full disclosure, I used to be the type of guy who had zero interest in electric cars

until I rode in one and became a believer.

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Mercedes just started rolling their brand new, all electric, EQC off the production

line and invited Dan and I out here to Norway to check it out from the inside.

Mercedes has been around for over a hundred years, and even though this is their first

They've taken that experience and that quality that they've obtained over the last hundred

They're even building the EQC off of their same assembly lines that they build the gas

It's all-wheel drive with one electric motor in the front and another electric motor in

Fancy stitching on the sides, and a lot of buttons.

If you're familiar with driving a Mercedes, you're going to feel right at home in this

Every aspect of the seat is motorized, along with heating and ventilation of the seats.

And my favorite part about the EQC is that it's...since it's a fully electric vehicle,

they have some detailing along the sides that mimic electronics, like the fins on a heat

sink, or the circuit board patterns on a motherboard.

The same type of circuits we see inside of cell phones.

We have the same dual screen that we saw inside of the G-Class.

You know, you have your navigation sitting right over here and then your speed and power

And then up here we have a little hole in the dash where the heads up display shines

And the cool thing about the heads up display is that if you're sitting here, you can't

see the display, but as soon as you're in the driver's seat, that head's up display

positions itself right in your field of view.

The head's up display is something that I haven't seen in a whole lot of other vehicles,

but it's just sitting right there on the glass, projected from the dashboard onto the windshield.

So you don't have to be distracted looking around at, you know, your navigation system

when it's just right there projected in your field of view.

It does take a second to get used to, but it's not a distraction...or as much as I thought

But yeah, just the quality and the attention to detail inside of the Mercedes is insane.

I really like the heat sink and the electronic circuit board design all throughout the theme

We have the same fancy leather stitch seats, rear air conditioning, speakers built into

The seats fold down with just a simple button press.

And one of the coolest things that I've seen about this car is that if we press this button

here, that drops down a tow hitch down here at the bottom, which is completely concealed

It's kind of like the hidden pop up camera on the OnePlus 7.

Speaking of pop up cameras, any time we put the Mercedes in reverse, there's a rear pop

up camera that sticks out of the Mercedes logo.

So people aren't gonna buy an electric car just to “save the planet.”

They're only going to buy an electric car when the benefits outweigh those of a gas

And honestly, I think we're at that point where electric vehicles are taking over the

They are more powerful, they have enough range, and just the features are better on electric

Like take this for example, on the Mercedes EQC, there's something called regenerative

So instead of using the brake pedal, the car is going to use it's electric motors to slow

the vehicle down and use that inertia, that energy, to put back into the battery.

So while Dan is driving, on his display we have this super wide dashboard display right

We can see when he accelerates, we have the energy being used.

And then when he decelerates, we see the recuperation or the regeneration where it's actually charging

the battery as he's slowing down, instead of using the brake pads.

So while we're driving, the front of the two motors is the more efficient motor, and so

that's what we're using right now, but when we accelerate, it engages both motors at the

And then when we do regen, it's using both motors to slow down the car and put power

So let's say you're driving through a mountainous area and you're up at the top of the mountain

and you start coasting down using the recuperative braking, you could end up with more charge

in your battery at the bottom of the hill than you had at the top of the hill because

it charged up the whole way down, using gravity and inertia to put all that energy back into

Which brings me to another perk of electric vehicles, is that there's hardly any maintenance.

Yeah, there's coolant running around inside of the battery to keep it an optimal temperature,

but it's not something you even need to change out like changing your oil on a gas powered

And since it uses the recuperation, or the regenerative braking, also, brake pads are

something you almost never need to switch out on an electric vehicle.

So there's a reason pretty much every single car manufacturer is coming out with electric

versions of their vehicles, it's because electric vehicles really are the future.

The same type of cultural shift that happened when cars were invented, you know, going from

a horse, to a car, to a gas powered car, is the same shift that's coming from gas powered

The amount of power, efficiency, and speed that you get with an electric car is just