Mercedes-Benz’s electric future starts with this CLA prototype

The CLA is camouflaged similar the 1 spotted successful September, but present we’re getting a look astatine the apt last mentation of Mercedes’ prima logo headlights and a tiny look astatine the CLA’s interior. Mercedes-Benz says overmuch of the tech from the EQXX Concept revealed successful 2022 is incorporated into the CLA.

Källenius says this CLA “ushers successful an epoch of a full procreation of caller vehicles from Mercedes” that uses its newest platform: the Mercedes Modular Architecture, oregon MMA. In an interrogation connected Decoder successful 2022, helium noted that we’d spot a caller EV level successful 2025, and it looks similar the automaker is connected way to conscionable its deadline.

Mercedes-Benz archetypal showed disconnected the CLA concept past year, and galore of the features are trickling down to this prototype, including the Porsche Taycan-like two-speed transmission and 800V artillery architecture that enables accelerated 250kW charging.

Interestingly, the automaker is besides making a hybrid combustion mentation of the CLA — inactive portion of the MMA household — that runs connected a 48-volt strategy on with the electrical transmission.

The CLA has the “first afloat version” of the caller Mercedes Benz Operating System, oregon MB OS, that the automaker archetypal shared astatine CES earlier this year, Källenius says. In the video objection helium asks, “Hey Mercedes, however are you?” and it responds, “All the amended for proceeding your voice.”