Mercedes Vision EQXX drives 1,200km on single charge to Goodwood

Leading the Mercedes-AMG display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend was the Vision EQXX, which arrived at Goodwood following a road trip of 1,202 kilometres from Stuttgart to Silverstone and Brixworth on a single battery charge.

The second such trip in less than three months was made possible thanks to a high-tech thermal management system, streamlined and highly aerodynamic body, and of course its 100kWh lithium-ion battery.

Achieving energy consumption of 8.3kWh/100km, the EQXX took advantage of heavy traffic and summer temperatures with Mercedes-EQ Formula E driver Nyck de Vries behind the wheel.

Billed as the “most efficient electric vehicle” Mercedes-Benz has made to date, the research vehicle will unfortunately never hit the production lines.

But it is teaching Mercedes a lot about electric vehicle efficiency – which can only be a good thing. The latest drive is a full 200km further than its 1,000km trip in April which saw it drive from Sindelfingen in Germany to Cassis on the French Riviera achieving energy consumption of 8.7kWh/100km.

The EQXX was joined at Goodwood by the Mercedes-AMG One hypercar which features an E Performance hybrid drive.

After a number of delays that have pushed its debut back year after year, the Mercedes-AMG One hypercar made its debut over the weekend at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed in England.

Boasting a 1.6-litre V6 hybrid turbocharged engine delivering more than 1,000 horsepower, the engine in the new Mercedes-AMG One hypercar is based on the unit in the F1 World Championship-winning Mercedes-AMG F1 W07 Hybrid of 2016.

In fact, the E Performance hybrid drive underneath the hood of the Mercedes-AMG One uses one combustion engine and four electric motors to deliver 1,063hp.

Designing an F1 engine to go into a road-worthy car was the result of close cooperation between the engineers at Mercedes-AMG and the experts at Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth.

Making its debut over the weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Mercedes-AMG One highlighted louvres at the front arches extending to aid air evacuation and extending front diffuser and rear wing, and a lowered track mode dropping the car to 1.4 inches at the front and 1.18 inches at the rear.