Mercedes-Benz is gradually expanding its fully electric EQ range and the next member of the family will be the flagship EQS SUV – not to be confused with the EQS sedan.
The model that was officially announced in 2020, spied in December 2020, and teased with the Maybach logo last week, is getting closer to its reveal as the latest development mules can be seen shedding their camouflage.
Our spy photographers caught the EQS SUV at a charging station, together with the smaller EQA. The heavy camouflage of earlier test cars has gone, revealing more design details. These include the production LED headlights which in typical EQ fashion are connected to the covered grille and the small intakes on the front bumper.
The profile is characterized by the long wheelbase and a smooth, aerodynamic silhouette thanks to the heavily inclined windshield. Plastic cladding appears on the rounded wheel arches, bumpers, and side sills, although these parts will probably be body-colored in the Maybach variant.
At the back, the pronounced shoulders end up in slim, horizontally arranged taillights which will probably be connected with an LED strip. As a fully electric vehicle, there are no exhaust pipes or decorative elements on the lower part of the rear bumper, besides a discreet diffuser hidden behind the black camouflage.
Another element shown in the new spy pictures is the rear-wheel-steering, a feature that is available as a subscription feature in the EQS sedan. While the interior is covered, we expect it to share the Hyperscreen dashboard with its 8 CPUs, 24GB of RAM, and the latest MBUX software with its low-slung sibling.
Since the EQS SUV sits on Mercedes’ latest electric platform, it could be offered in a number of variants. The largest 107.8 kWh battery will allow for an impressive range close to the 479-mile figure of the sedan (due to the increased drag of the SUV bodystyle) although lesser variants might be offered with a smaller 90 kWh battery.
As a high-riding SUV, Mercedes could offer the EQS exclusively with a bi-motor setup sending power to all four wheels. In the sedan, the EQS 580 produces 516 hp (385 kW / 523 PS) while we also expect an AMG-branded performance flagship with 715 hp (533 kW / 725 PS).
The official reveals of the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV and the equivalent Maybach are expected before the end of 2021 as a 2022 model.
Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV Electric The Next Member Of The Family
01/08/2021
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Axolotl problems
As Mexico City grew and became more industrialized, the need for water brought pumps and pipes to the lake, and eventually, “it was like a bad, smelly pond with rotten water,” Zambrano said. “All of our aquatic animals suffer with bad water quality, but amphibians suffer more because they have to breathe with the skin.”
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To add to the axolotls’ problems, invasive fish species such as carp and tilapia were introduced to the lake, where they feed on axolotl eggs. And a 1985 earthquake in Mexico City displaced thousands of people, who found new homes in the area around the lake, further contributing to the destruction of the axolotls’ habitat.
These combined threats have devastated axolotl populations. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are fewer than 100 adult axolotls left in the wild. The species is considered critically endangered.
While the wild axolotls of Lake Xochimilco have dwindled to near-extinction, countless axolotls have been bred for scientific laboratories and the pet trade. “The axolotl essentially helped establish the field of experimental zoology,” Voss said.
In 1864, a French army officer brought live axolotls back to Europe, where scientists were surprised to learn that the seemingly juvenile aquatic salamanders were capable of reproduction. Since then, scientists around the world have studied axolotls and their DNA to learn about the salamanders’ unusual metamorphosis (or lack thereof) as well as their ability to regrow injured body parts.
In addition to their role in labs, axolotls have become popular in the exotic pet trade (though they are illegal to own in California, Maine, New Jersey and Washington, DC). However, the axolotls you might find at a pet shop are different from their wild relatives in Lake Xochimilco. Most wild axolotls are a dark grayish brown. The famous pink axolotls, as well as other color variants such as white, blue, yellow and black, are genetic anomalies that are rare in the wild but selectively bred for in the pet trade.
What’s more, “most of the animals in the pet trade have a very small genetic variance,” Zambrano said. Pet axolotls tend to be inbred and lack the wide flow of different genes that makes up a healthy population in the wild. That means that the axolotl extinction crisis can’t simply be solved by dumping pet axolotls into Lake Xochimilco. (Plus, the pet axolotls likely wouldn’t fare well with the poor habitat conditions in the lake.)
Fame and misfortune
The difficulties that axolotls face in the wild are almost diametrically opposed to the fame they’ve found in recent years. Axolotls have captured the human imagination for centuries, as evidenced by their roles in Aztec religion and stories, but the early 21st century seems to be a high point for them. An axolotl graces the 50 peso bill. There are axolotl-inspired Pokemon, and Reddit commenters have noted that the character Toothless from the “How to Train Your Dragon” movie series is distinctly axolotl-like.
The introduction of axolotls to Minecraft in 2021 neatly mapped onto an uptick in Google searches for the animals, and social media makes it easy for people to gain access to photos and videos of the salamanders, particularly the photogenic pink ones often kept as pets.
The axolotl pet trade probably doesn’t directly harm the wild populations since wild salamanders aren’t being poached or taken from Lake Xochimilco. However, Zambrano said, axolotls’ ubiquity in pop culture and pet stores might make people assume that because axolotls “live in all the tanks around the world, they are not in danger.”