The 2021 Mercedes EQS goes from nought to science fiction in the blink of an eye
Mercedes is credited with inventing the car, but such is the pace of change in personal mobility and electrification that legacy doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. Investors love shiny new tech and agile start-ups rather than sepia-tinted images and entrenched ideas. So the EQS is more than another new Mercedes, it’s a once-in-a-generation manifesto for the future. This is the world’s oldest carmaker engaging hyperdrive. A pure-electric luxury car, the EQS rewrites large chunks of what we know about cars and how they’re designed, manufactured and used. The headline facts here are a cl...