The latest Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX review by Angus Mackenzie.
Published 26 July 2022 at 5:00 pm


EXTRACT 1
Mercedes-Benz hasn’t just moved the EV range and efficiency goal posts with the Vision EQXX. It’s built a whole new stadium.
Yes, the Vision EQXX is a concept car. But Mercedes-Benz board member and chief technology officer Markus Schäfer says the technologies used to deliver its impressive efficiency are all production feasible.
“The technology programme behind the Vision EQXX will define and enable future Mercedes-Benz models and features” – and that’s why it’s such an important car.
EXTRACT 2
The Vision EQXX’s electronic brain uses something called neuromorphic computing, a form of information processing whose hardware runs so-called ‘spiking neural networks’ that mimic natural ones, firing only when certain thresholds are reached.
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Developed in conjunction with California-based artificial intelligence (AI) specialist BrainChip, the system is said to significantly reduce energy consumption. For example, Mercedes claims the “Hey Mercedes” voice control system in the Vision EQXX is five to ten times more efficient than the setup in current production cars.
All this hardware and software makes the Vision EQXX ridiculously easy to drive while achieving extraordinary levels of energy efficiency.
EXTRACT 3
The Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX is an intellectual and technological tour-de-force, a fully-functional prototype that explores the outer limits of electric vehicle efficiency, connectivity, and production feasibility.
It shows what a company that has been building cars for more than a century can do when it turns the might of its huge research and development budgets entirely to thinking about designing and engineering a better electric vehicle.
Tesla, you’re on notice.
The future is now at Mercedes-Benz. Angus MacKenzie gets a quick drive of the futuristic and ultra-efficient Vision EQXX EV in Germany.
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