Have had my EQC for 2 years soon and driven close to 60 000 km and can just confirm your conclusions. Not the most efficient and certainly not the fastest charger but the quality feeling is great. Agree with an earlier statement that the seat could have been softer but othrrwise the comfort is super...
I haven't been watching this channel since, probably 2019. This is completely a new world now but the guy is still doing well... Glad to see you again and be back.
I’ve just got an EQC 400 Premium Plus, listed at £83k. Now it’s discontinued and the mileage is so terrible. I got it as a company pool car for pottering round and everyone loves it. It’s comfy to drives, a bit firm when in comfort mode. Nobody can sit behind me at 6ft 4” and I actually have the seat pretty much bottomed out to fit. I got it for £660 upfront and £305 a month, for 10,000 miles a year and 2 year deal. My cousin has the exact same, with a little less tech and she paid £3600 upfront and £945 per month. I looked online and the top spec, as I’ve got, with under 10k miles on the clock, 18. Months old and £36k. So someone lost roughly £45-50k in depreciation. The new one in 2025 is apparently a top to bottom new car, with high range, more speed but I’ll wait and see. My BMW X5 50e is working out as a far nicer car but I got a bargain deal on the EQC and at that price, it’s unrivalled if you want EV. Not worth the normal prices charged though
Just picked one up last week premium plus model. Mad how much it has depreciated here in the UK and for the price as you say you’re not getting anywhere near the luxury this offers. Curious to see how much it saves me over my Q7 but I imagine with electricity pricing at minute it won’t be as crazy as some say.
@Soulboy63 apologies, it's £325 per month, as a business lease, and is a 73 plate with 250 miles on the clock when i arrived. I saw the deal on a TH-cam video. It is from Carparison (owned by some Mercedes Directors in Exeter, I believe). I was only offered white or blue, but I wish I'd got 3 or 4, for office use. I haven't actually used it much, however the keys are fought for each day
Positive and good review. I have this car and agree with You. Because of the car not have the newest dash and controls, I like You get old tactile buttons on the steering wheel and in the console.
This EQC has a short lifespan quickly put together from the equivalent ICE platform. The next iteration built on dedicated EV platform will be the one to review.
It will be interesting to compare this version of the EQC to the new EQE SUV. Are they the same, but with updates on the EQE SUV. I'm assuming MB have renamed the EQC to EQE SUV. That way, MB can call the upcoming EV saloon EQC.
Well, it is an electric car out of the "old world". I wouldn't spend much money for old MBUX, small monitor and other disadvantages. Of course it is a good car.
Short term for your road trip please get the 2024 Polestar 2 LR Dual motor. C40/XC40 seating position is off and C40 view out the back is terrible. Software in Kia is crap. Longer term Porsche replacement: XC30 would be okay. But I'd rather learn more about the Polestar 3.
Range range range. We're still at peak range with EV's. There seems to be little to no progress and the years are ticking. To top it off there's also peak battery and no alternative sources to find production materials. This may very well be the downfall of the EV - yet again. William Morrison, who developed the very first EV back in in 1890-91, must be smirking in his grave 😆
You have to either be the worst troll I've encountered in years, or...... the worst informed and educated person on this subject I've come across in a long time. There is not an ounce of truth in anything you said. As EVs are updated and OTAs are rolled out, they keep getting more and more efficient. Batteries keep getting cheaper and cheaper, while also getting better and more energy dense. Just in the last year or two there have has been huge breakthroughs in new battery tech. In 2024 and 2025 we are most likely going to see mass produced Lithium-Sulfur and Litium-Sodium batteries, as well as solid state batteries. You sir, are wholly ignorant on the subject. You're basically saying. "We're at peak CPU speed with todays 386 processors on X86 architecture, and there is nothing means of improving this tech".
Can't argue facts. It's all there in the stats. The range progress is static, the last 5 years it's been stagnation for the most part. You can call me a troll, I don't take offence. But I'm actually in line with the top guns in the automotive industry on this. Both the CEO of VW and BMW has said they have an electric fleet cause the green profile is important branding wise, but none of them belive electricity is going to be the dominate fuel in the vast future. There's just no sustainability in it. The International Energy Agency projects that manufacturers of clean energy technologies will need forty times more lithium, twenty-five times more graphite, and about twenty times more nickel and cobalt in 2040 than in 2020. Nature simply doesn't provide enough raw material for all cars to be electric. The envelope is already being pushed. Peak battery is real. Instead of being a keyboard hero you need to read some serious literature on this topic. Not hatin', just saying. @@KrisRifa
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Have had my EQC for 2 years soon and driven close to 60 000 km and can just confirm your conclusions. Not the most efficient and certainly not the fastest charger but the quality feeling is great. Agree with an earlier statement that the seat could have been softer but othrrwise the comfort is super...
Just bougt a bran new EQC.
Thanks for a great insight and video.
How is it going?
I tested today, so luxurious and for me it’s one of the best package
I haven't been watching this channel since, probably 2019. This is completely a new world now but the guy is still doing well... Glad to see you again and be back.
There are some good deals on these at the moment they cant seem to give them away
I’ve just got an EQC 400 Premium Plus, listed at £83k. Now it’s discontinued and the mileage is so terrible. I got it as a company pool car for pottering round and everyone loves it. It’s comfy to drives, a bit firm when in comfort mode. Nobody can sit behind me at 6ft 4” and I actually have the seat pretty much bottomed out to fit. I got it for £660 upfront and £305 a month, for 10,000 miles a year and 2 year deal. My cousin has the exact same, with a little less tech and she paid £3600 upfront and £945 per month. I looked online and the top spec, as I’ve got, with under 10k miles on the clock, 18. Months old and £36k. So someone lost roughly £45-50k in depreciation.
The new one in 2025 is apparently a top to bottom new car, with high range, more speed but I’ll wait and see. My BMW X5 50e is working out as a far nicer car but I got a bargain deal on the EQC and at that price, it’s unrivalled if you want EV. Not worth the normal prices charged though
Just picked one up last week premium plus model. Mad how much it has depreciated here in the UK and for the price as you say you’re not getting anywhere near the luxury this offers. Curious to see how much it saves me over my Q7 but I imagine with electricity pricing at minute it won’t be as crazy as some say.
305 pcm , was it used ?? . I got a GLC diesel , I love the EQC , a new battery is 32k !!!
@Soulboy63 apologies, it's £325 per month, as a business lease, and is a 73 plate with 250 miles on the clock when i arrived. I saw the deal on a TH-cam video. It is from Carparison (owned by some Mercedes Directors in Exeter, I believe). I was only offered white or blue, but I wish I'd got 3 or 4, for office use.
I haven't actually used it much, however the keys are fought for each day
Positive and good review. I have this car and agree with You. Because of the car not have the newest dash and controls, I like You get old tactile buttons on the steering wheel and in the console.
This EQC has a short lifespan quickly put together from the equivalent ICE platform. The next iteration built on dedicated EV platform will be the one to review.
The eqc aged like fine wine and vintage cheese.
It will be interesting to compare this version of the EQC to the new EQE SUV. Are they the same, but with updates on the EQE SUV. I'm assuming MB have renamed the EQC to EQE SUV. That way, MB can call the upcoming EV saloon EQC.
You mention the EQC is more beautiful than any current EQ models, but it still looks worse than the normal GLC (especially in the front)!
I think EQC looks better than GLC though 😉
@@KrisRifa Agreed
If only mercedes made the eqe and eqs look like the vision eqs model, then it would definitely be the best looking ev ever!
Yeah, those concepts where stunning! 🤩
Is it worth buying now for £43000 brand new (premium model) as this has been discontinued from MB, hence the discount?
Too expensive.. It better I go for the EQS sedan.. Or the NIO ET7
This car needs to give more range and be more capable off road. Then we would have a car that I would want to buy.
Well, it is an electric car out of the "old world". I wouldn't spend much money for old MBUX, small monitor and other disadvantages. Of course it is a good car.
Short term for your road trip please get the 2024 Polestar 2 LR Dual motor. C40/XC40 seating position is off and C40 view out the back is terrible. Software in Kia is crap.
Longer term Porsche replacement: XC30 would be okay. But I'd rather learn more about the Polestar 3.
Range range range. We're still at peak range with EV's. There seems to be little to no progress and the years are ticking. To top it off there's also peak battery and no alternative sources to find production materials. This may very well be the downfall of the EV - yet again. William Morrison, who developed the very first EV back in in 1890-91, must be smirking in his grave 😆
You have to either be the worst troll I've encountered in years, or...... the worst informed and educated person on this subject I've come across in a long time. There is not an ounce of truth in anything you said. As EVs are updated and OTAs are rolled out, they keep getting more and more efficient. Batteries keep getting cheaper and cheaper, while also getting better and more energy dense. Just in the last year or two there have has been huge breakthroughs in new battery tech. In 2024 and 2025 we are most likely going to see mass produced Lithium-Sulfur and Litium-Sodium batteries, as well as solid state batteries. You sir, are wholly ignorant on the subject.
You're basically saying. "We're at peak CPU speed with todays 386 processors on X86 architecture, and there is nothing means of improving this tech".
Can't argue facts. It's all there in the stats. The range progress is static, the last 5 years it's been stagnation for the most part. You can call me a troll, I don't take offence. But I'm actually in line with the top guns in the automotive industry on this. Both the CEO of VW and BMW has said they have an electric fleet cause the green profile is important branding wise, but none of them belive electricity is going to be the dominate fuel in the vast future. There's just no sustainability in it. The International Energy Agency projects that manufacturers of clean energy technologies will need forty times more lithium, twenty-five times more graphite, and about twenty times more nickel and cobalt in 2040 than in 2020. Nature simply doesn't provide enough raw material for all cars to be electric. The envelope is already being pushed. Peak battery is real. Instead of being a keyboard hero you need to read some serious literature on this topic. Not hatin', just saying. @@KrisRifa
Another “old tech” vehicle from a legacy automaker who should do much better