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Introducing new Concept CLA, Mercedes says Europe, North America
charging to rapidly get better
When it displayed its Concept CLA
Class for the first time in North America
at CES 2024, Mercedes-Benz focused
on the car's merging of novel user-experience,
new all-encompassing operating
system and a radical sound-system
concept - all as examples of the company's
intent to own its software-defined
destiny. But the Concept CLA
Class is more than a software story: it
also is the showcase for the upcoming
Mercedes-Benz Modular Architecture
(MMA) that underpins the company's
imminent new generation of compact,
entry-level EVs.
In a roundtable interview with media
during CES, Christoph Starzynski, vicepresident
- development, MercedesBenz
Cars, said several of the hardware
innovations in the Concept CLA Class
are central to improving EV performance
across many segments, not just
entry-level models. The concept car, he
said, previews next-generation hardware
that will be available when the
production CLA models begin later in
Mercedes-Benz is preparing its new entry-level EV platform previewed by the CLA Class Concept
revealed in fall 2023.
2024 to replace the current-generation
CLA, which has been in the market for
some six years.
" From the e-drive perspective, [the
production CLA is] going to be a completely
new e-drive, " Starzynski said.
The CLA Class Concept showed this
new MB.EDU, or Mercedes-Benz Electric
Drive Unit, driving the vehicle's rear
wheels, although the current CLA models
are front-wheel drive. The company
has confirmed that there will be internal
combustion-propelled variants of the
MMA platform, however, so it may be
possible IC variants will offer front-drive
configurations, while EV versions offer
Battery technology developed for the EQXX hyper-efficient concept car will play a role in coming production models.
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