A couple days ago we told you about Mercedes’ potential plans to bring an electric-drive variant of the forthcoming Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, and today, the company has confirmed exactly that. According to Mercedes, they are “developing an exciting super sports car with zero-emission high-tech drive,” one that “sees Mercedes-Benz and AMG displaying their expertise in the development of alternative drive solutions for high-performance super sports cars.”
If you viewed our prior story on the SLS eDrive, you already know most of the details: four electric motors (one positioned near each wheel) provide a combined peak output of 392kW and a maximum torque of 880 Nm, with one transmission per axle transmitting power. According to Mercedes, “this intelligent all-wheel-drive system allows dynamically optimized power transmission without any losses by means of Torque Vectoring ? in other words, the specifically targeted acceleration of individual wheels.”
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