022 Mercedes-EQ EQS 450+ review: Setting a high bar for luxury Evs

Mercedes-EQ’s EQS 450+ is an exemplary luxury motoring experience that’s shockingly refined and sets a high bar for luxury EVs in Singapore.When Mercedes puts 'S' in a model name, expectations run very high. Good thing that the Mercedes-EQ EQS – basically the Nouveau S-Class for the electric age – meets and sometimes exceeds those expectations.

For now, the EQS 450+ comes with the AMG Line styling choice as default – the non-AMG Electric Art version could be available in the near future. Much of the hardware we saw previously on the S-Class: The large, crisp 12.8-inch OLED infotainment screen, and a 12.3-inch driver's display, supported by a small contingent of buttons and touch controls.But the EQS ups the ante further. The dashboard on the left features a large winglike trim panel finished with backlit three-pointed stars, and the EQS appears to have even more interior lighting strips than the already LED-festooned S-Class.

We've covered the fiddly nature of the mostly touchscreen interface and various touch controls in the S-Class, and it's the same here. With 2,912mm between the wheels, the EQS has almost the same wheelbase as the S 450 L while being around 70mm shorter at the same time. That translates into mucho legroom, so you can really kick your feet out and relax on long rides.

There's additional space below the false floor, and the seats fold down to expand the cargo area from 610-litres to a spacious 1,770-litres. Accordingly, it's not lightning-quick, but picks up speed rapidly and without drama, even on full-bore acceleration. Mercedes gives you two flavours of electric sound to match, but it's all quite understated, and the drivetrain has been very obviously engineered with smoothness in mind.

Of course Rolls-Royce's own EV, the Spectre, might have something to say about this, but it's not here yet, and will probably cost four times as much. Speaking of sport, as is the Mercedes way, this is a car centred on refinement and comfort. It'll make short work of twisty roads, and can be driven quickly, but it's certainly less of a driver's car than a chauffeur's one.

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