Mercedes introduced the EQC as a luxury EV in the Indian market a few weeks ago. Now, the recent news is that they have updated the charger in this one and replaced the 7.4 kW unit with a more powerful and faster 11kW onboard one. Result? Well, it reduces the charging time of Mercedes EQC by two and a half hours.
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This powerful 11kW charger will juice the 80kWh battery pack in just 7 hours and 30 minutes. Earlier, the smaller 7.4kW charger used to take 11 hours to completely juice the battery up. Other than this, the other change of the EQC remains the same.
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The other charging options include a 2.4kW wall socket charger which takes 21 hours of charging time to charge the battery from 10 to 100 percent. Yes, this is a lot of time in our opinion too. This electric SUV is also capable of fast charging and a 50kW fast charger only takes just hour and a half to juice up the battery.
This powerful 80kWh electric motor generates 405 bhp along with a peak torque of 760 Nm. Yes, in our review also we have mentioned that we could actually feel the G forces in our head because it is that fast and quick in acceleration.
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Speaking of performance then this four-wheel-drive electric SUV does 0-100 km/h sprint in just 5.1 seconds and has a top speed limited to 180 km/h. Along with the performance, the Mercedes EQC also packs in a decent driving range of 400 km which is apt for the Indian conditions.
This luxury electric SUV gets a sticker price of Rs 99.30 lakh, ex-showroom, Delhi and currently has no competition in its segment. But it won't be flying high on this point for too long as Audi is keen on bringing the e-Tron and th British carmaker Jaguar will bring the i-Pace too in future.
