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Mercedes takes biggest swing yet at Tesla as it unveils CLA with 492-mile range
- PeterStuer 2y ago"Competing in a niche segment of largely chauffeur-driven executive limousines, the EQS failed to connect with a conservative customer base that still prizes Merc’s combustion engine S-Class sibling as the pinnacle of luxury." Don't know about the EQS, but on the EQE they made the air suspension an option, resulting in some unpleasantness for the "chauffeur-driven" that find out too late the extra weight of the car can make for a quite unpleasant backseat ride without it on less than perfectly smooth roads.
- nunez 2y agoWell the EQS looks like a bar of soap, unlike their very regal looking S class, so there's that.
- natch 2y agoYawn. No details, and stated range is not EPA, so it's meaningless.
- stuaxo 2y agoOh, nice to bring back this shape of car - though I can't see if it's oversize like most cars of the last few years, I hope not.
- ahartmetz 2y agoThis seems quite nice. Mercedes is keeping it classy (unlike their Bavarian competitor). Elegant shape, high range... hopefully buttons for important functions?
- seabass-labrax 2y ago> the vehicle features a premium infotainment system powered by a computer chip that can calculate 254 trillion operations per second How do you possibly justify putting 254 teraflops(?) to work for an infotainment system? You can display 1080p video with a mere hundredth of that power. It's not so significant in the big scheme of things, but that sounds to me like the operating system could be less than ideal, and that Mercedes are just throwing silicon at the problem in an attempt to compensate. Hopefully there has just been mix up and that processing power is going towards more gainful activities like automatic lane-keeping.
- nopelynopington 2y agoCame here to post this. > It’s so potent, it needs liquid cooling like a high-end PC gaming rig. That must be a mistake. Why would you need liquid cooling for an in car entertainment system? Even a ps5 doesn't need liquid cooling.
- tobltobs 2y agoTemperatures inside a car can easily reach 140 °F (60 °C), in extreme conditions 80°C.
- nopelynopington 2y agoEven more reason not to have a chip that runs so hot it needs liquid cooling!
- rsynnott 2y agoThe point is that high ambient temperature reduces the amount of heat you can produce before you need heroic efforts at cooling. That said, this does seem mildly absurd.
- bombcar 2y agoIt’s an HTML5 supercomputer. All the best modern vehicles have them.
- peterfirefly 2y agoIt has a speed of more than 2.
- delfinom 2y agoSomebody designed in a GPU chip that is just there rendering UI lol
- tobias3 2y agoFrom a bit of research I think this one is also used for the Level 3 autonomous driving on highways. Compared to Tesla it is actually usefull and you can do other stuff (e.g. read) and it doesn't just hand over to you one second before collision.
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- nunez 2y agoModel 3 competes more with their C class. Shame that they're trying to use their CLA to compete against it.
- Gravityloss 2y agoIf only they had a usable boot/trunk/rear hatch. Mercedes has for decades had a hole in their model lineup, no liftback model. I wonder if their owners are less likely to have hobbies where they need to move gear? In general, most cars have gone more rounded and smaller hatches. And thus less usable space. Ie if you want to still fit a guitar sideways, you can't upgrade to a newer model Mercedes C class station wagon. If you want to take the argument to its logical extreme, 90's Volvo of course was the pinnacle and everywhere it's all been downhill from that...