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Have you noticed we’ve had a few EVs through the Drive garage of late? Hardly surprising, really, given the way manufacturers are rolling them out with regularity, and the fact that they are slowly gaining a foothold in our local market. Whether we like it or not, the EV storm is starting to roll through, and our job is to find out just how practical they are right now, as things like infrastructure struggle to keep up.
The other factor that assists any new car purchase is knowledge. And plenty of potential buyers are telling us they just don’t know enough about EVs – how they work, how they use their batteries, how they drive, and what you need to do to charge them – to actually buy one right now. As we’ve seen, most of those concerns can be quite easily satisfied, especially as EVs get better and better.
That’s why we added a 2021 Mercedes-Benz EQC400 to the Drive long-term fleet.
Two specification grades are available, the EQC400 4Matic and the EQC400 4Matic Sport, with prices starting from $124,300 and $141,300 respectively, both before on-road costs. If you weighed those numbers up against ‘regular’ Mercedes-Benz GLC models, you’d find the GLC300 starting from $93,300, the plug-in hybrid GLC300e starting from $100,300, and the Mercedes-AMG GLC43 starting from $130,000, all before on-road costs again.
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