Mercedes' performance division is ready to embrace an electric future, with AMG looking to emerging battery technology to provide the energy required to live up to its high-performance reputation.
The EQC remains one of the few Mercedes-Benz model lines that hasn't been handed to the mad scientists at AMG, but while that won't change, you can expect hi-po EVs to begin appearing in the near future.
It is understood AMG is producing its own performance EV product, seperate to Mercedes, to provide the performance potential the brand requires. That would point to an electrified standalone product, similar to the AMG GT, emerging.
In the interim, reports have also pointed to the next C63 arriving with a plug-in hybrid variant for the first time.
"Why wouldn't we do it?" Asks AMG project manager Thilo-Urs Raetzke. "The future is electric."
Then asked what AMG's all-electric future could look like, given the traditional method of fitting a bigger, more powerful and handcrafted engine is off the cards, Raetzke replied: "While it might normally mean more cylinders, there are things you can do with electric vehicles with bigger batteries. The technology there is moving very quickly."
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Andrew Chesterton
Contributing Journalist
Andrew Chesterton should probably hate cars. From his hail-damaged Camira that looked like it had spent a hard life parked at the end of Tiger Woods' personal driving range, to the Nissan Pulsar Reebok that shook like it was possessed by a particularly mean-spirited demon every time he dared push past 40km/h, his personal car history isn't exactly littered with gold.
But that seemingly endless procession of rust-savaged hate machines taught him something even more important; that cars are more than a collection of nuts, bolts and petrol. They're your ticket to freedom, a way to unlock incredible experiences, rolling invitations to incredible adventures. They have soul.
And so, somehow, the car bug still bit. And it bit hard.
When "Chesto" started his journalism career with News Ltd's Sunday and Daily Telegraph newspapers, he covered just about everything, from business to real estate, courts to crime, before settling into state political reporting at NSW Parliament House.
But the automotive world's siren song soon sounded again, and he begged anyone who would listen for the opportunity to write about cars. Eventually they listened, and his career since has seen him filing car news, reviews and features for TopGear, Wheels, Motor and, of course, CarsGuide, as well as many, many others.
More than a decade later, and the car bug is yet to relinquish its toothy grip. And if you ask Chesto, he thinks it never will.
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