Mercedes’ CEO Dieter Zetsche says this car matters because CO2 reduction does.
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Mercedes’ CEO Dieter Zetsche says this car matters because CO2 reduction does. He reckons “mankind’s greatest achievement” is the Paris climate accord. As the conversation moves on, I fail to make the obvious riposte. Tesla is a company that has dedicated itself to decarbonising the car, whereas the EQC has a problem: green-minded customers won’t want to buy their carbon-light car from the guys who build the G63 AMG. But then, Tesla seldom makes money. Mercedes is old enough to have learned that selling environmentally catastrophic V8-engined SUVs to the short-sightedly selfish is good business. It generates the profits necessary to finance the all-electric EQC.
Precisely because the EQC comes from a different philosophical and business starting point than the Tesla Model X, it has turned out very different: the electric car you’d expect a petrol-car company to make. Jaguar might have looked outward when making the I-Pace, but Mercedes has looked in. The EQC is resolutely normal. Good, but really normal.
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