Mercedes-Benz EQV

The Mercedes-Benz EQV is the fully electric version of the V-Class: same body, same seating layouts, up to seven passengers, no tailpipe emissions. It matters for corporate accounts with emissions reporting obligations and for city centres tightening their access rules, where an electric vehicle keeps its way in.

Range is the trade-off. The EQV is well suited to city and regional work: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Schiphol runs and a day of meetings across the Randstad. For a 600-kilometre cross-border run it can still be the right vehicle, but the charging stop is planned into the schedule rather than discovered en route. Like the V-Class it is tall, so we check car park and hotel height limits before the day.