Electric Mercedes Gullwing Lands In 2013

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By Chuck Squatriglia April 30, 2010 | 10:00 am | Categories: Cool Cars, EVs and Hybrids


The latest word on the electric AMG SLS “Gullwing” has Mercedes offering the car in 2013 and giving it enough power to leave a whole lot of cars in its dust.

Mercedes already confirmed it’s building an electric Gullwing, but the timeline had it reaching production in 2015. Now AMG managing director Volker Mornhinweg says the electric supercar will be here two years sooner. He’s driven the prototypes — he didn’t say how many there are — and promises the car will be as exciting as the Mercedes AMG SLS it’s based on.

“I can tell you that it is an amazing kind of experience,” he told Australia’s GoAuto.com.


That’s exactly what you’d expect him to say, of course. But the numbers coming out of Germany suggest the electric Gullwing will be a sweet ride. The plan calls for four motors with a combined output of 400 kilowatts (536 horsepower) and 649 pound-feet of torque. The all-wheel drive electric car will wear the same sexy bodywork as the conventional SLS (pictured), which has a 571-horsepower V8 that produces 479 pound-feet of torque.

“We can take (out) a combustion engine and transaxle and make no changes to the body, and we can put in two motors with the gearbox in the rear, two motors and the gearbox in the front and we can take the center console as a battery place – it looks like a T and it is perfect,” he said.



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[madokie]

1. I won't ever have to worry with payments on that

Pretty car though and more power to the ones who will be able to afford it.

[kristopher]

2. Mercedes has committed to being "gasoline" free by 2015. nt

[IDemo]

3. Interesting that Daimler purchased a share of Tesla,

mainly to benefit from their advanced battery system, but have chosen to go ahead with a German company on the batteries.

[quiet.american]

4. Wow. Very cool. nt

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

5. i want it, but can I afford it ?