Mercedes-Benz EQC

Launching in October in time for the festive season, the EQC 400 4Matic will be India’s first fully-electric luxury vehicle

- Sirish Chandran

NOBODY, LEAST OF ALL Mercedes-Benz, positions the EQC as a performance car. This, after all, is the start of Mercedes’ ‘sustainable luxury’ push to have CO2 neutral car production by 2022; electrify 50 per cent of its portfolio by 2030; to have a CO2 neutral fleet by 2039. They are calling it Ambition 2039, a mission that — on the face of it — goes in the opposite direction to what we enthusiasts want. Yet… the first time I step on it, the EQC takes my breath away. And I don’t mean figuratively or anything. It physically, via an application of considerable g-forces, takes the breath out of me.