{"id":1873,"date":"2018-09-05T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/mercedes-takes-on-tesla-with-fully-electric-suv\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:02:22","slug":"mercedes-takes-on-tesla-with-fully-electric-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/mercedes-takes-on-tesla-with-fully-electric-suv\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes takes on Tesla with fully-electric SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"EQC\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/167B9\/production\/_103298029_2ec701c6-560e-4787-b0c7-e1ed170557be.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">German carmaker Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its first fully-electric car, in a bid to take on US rival Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidiary of Daimler says the EQC, which has two electric motors, will have a range of more than 450km.<\/p>\n<p>It will start rolling off production lines at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is investing more than \u20ac10bn (\u00a39bn) in the expansion of its electric range, and more than \u20ac1bn in battery production.<\/p>\n<p>The new SUV is the first model in a range of ten EQ cars that Mercedes plans to launch by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With bans on combustion engines looming in the UK and France, and the establishment of a low-emission zones in cities across Europe, major automakers have been scrambling to enter the electric vehicle market. <\/p>\n<p>Until recently, the California-based Tesla, which is struggling to meet production targets and burning through cash, had little competition.<\/p>\n<p>Now, German brands Porsche and Audi are scheduled to produce luxury electric cars, as is Britain&#8217;s Jaguar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Daimler<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-44444361\" class=\"story-body__link\">Earlier this year, the German government<\/a> ordered Daimler to recall 238,000 vehicles in Germany after they were found to be fitted with illegal software that masks diesel emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Across Europe a total of 774,000 diesel vehicles contain &#8220;defeat devices&#8221; and Daimler said it would recall them all.<\/p>\n<p>It said it would refit software but denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45417935\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German carmaker Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its first fully-electric car, in a bid to take on US rival Tesla. The subsidiary of Daimler says the EQC, which has two electric motors, will have a range of more than 450km. It will start rolling off production lines at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen in 2019. The firm &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}