Mercedes-Benz is showing disconnected its all-electric CLA prototype and sharing a fewer caller specifications planned for the upcoming 2025 accumulation version. The CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group, Ola Källenius, provides a constricted circuit of the car, successful which he talks to its caller AI assistant, and takes it for a rotation in a caller video posted by the automaker.
The CLA is camouflaged for illustration the 1 spotted successful September, but now we’re getting a look astatine the apt last type of Mercedes’ prima logo headlights and a mini 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 era of a full procreation of caller vehicles from Mercedes” that uses its newest platform: the Mercedes Modular Architecture, aliases MMA. In an question and reply connected Decoder successful 2022, he noted that we’d spot a caller EV level successful 2025, and it looks for illustration the automaker is connected way to meet its deadline.
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Mercedes-Benz first 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 type of the CLA — still portion of the MMA family — that runs connected a 48-volt strategy on pinch the electrical transmission.
The CLA has the “first afloat version” of the caller Mercedes Benz Operating System, aliases MB OS, that the automaker first shared astatine CES earlier this year, Källenius says. In the video objection he asks, “Hey Mercedes, really are you?” and it responds, “All the amended for proceeding your voice.”