The electrical Mercedes-Benz C-Class has been spied forward of its anticipated unveiling later this yr as a rival to the upcoming BMW i3with a claimed vary of as much as 800km.
The C-Class electrical automobile (EV) will likely be formally named ‘C-Class with EQ Know-how’, following the naming technique used for the electrical GLC with EQ Know-how SUV revealed on the Munich motor present in 2025.
Set to enter manufacturing through the second quarter (April to June) of 2026, the electrical sedan will share its 800-volt MB.EA electrical underpinnings with the BMW iX3-rivalling GLC EV.
Like the electrical SUV, it shares little with its combustion-powered counterpart.
The most recent photos present the C-Class EQ’s ‘iconic grille’, seen in a teaser picture issued by the automaker in September final yr, stays regardless of the resignation of longstanding design boss Gorden Wagener.
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Mr Wagener’s successor – Bastian Baudy, who comes from Mercedes-AMG – is “setting the course for the subsequent period of its design language,” in response to the automaker, with the C-Class EQ now too near its remaining manufacturing guise for any important design modifications.
The automaker has mentioned its earlier EVs have been too polarising of their design, with the C-Class EQ transferring away from the swoopy EQS and SKIP physique shapes and as an alternative adopting one thing nearer to a traditional ‘three-box’ sedan silhouette.
The ‘iconic grille’ harkens again to earlier, extra formal grilles from Mercedes-Benz and contrasts with the rounded physique form of the C-Class EQ.
Just like the GLC EV’s grille, it may be illuminated, nevertheless it options 4 horizontal slats, the place the GLC has solely three.

As seen in earlier spy pictures – together with of the automobile testing on the Nürburgring in Germany – the C-pillar behind the rear doorways stays closely camouflaged, suggesting an extra quarter window could also be fitted.
Inside, higher-grade variations of the C-Class EQ are anticipated to characteristic the 39.1-inch ‘MBUX Hyperscreen’, which stretches throughout the total width of the dashboard, as seen on the GLC EQ and the new-generation CLA.
Other than its claimed 800km vary, full powertrain particulars for the C-Class EQ are but to be revealed, although the GLC EQ supplies a sign of what’s going to be provided beneath the pores and skin.
The highest-spec GLC 400 4Matic EQ contains a 360kW dual-motor all-wheel-drive system, together with a two-speed gearbox for the rear axle and a 94kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery with a claimed 713km WLTP vary.

Decrease-spec variations run a smaller lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery and a single-motor rear-wheel-drive setup.
The MB.EA platform’s 800-volt structure helps DC quick charging at charges of as much as 330kW.
The C-Class EQ will compete with the upcoming BMW i3 electrical sedan – sharing its ‘New class’ underpinnings with the iX3 – with each claiming as much as 800km of driving vary.
The BMW lineup may also embrace an electrical, quad-motor M efficiency mannequin due in 2027, whereas Mercedes-AMG is getting ready electrical fashions of its personal.

