Tron Called And Wants Its Car Back

From behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS, the future is right here.

- Viju Mathew

There’s a buzz in the air and it’s not just the police ’copter I swear is circling above to get a better view of what I’m in – this vehicle from tomorrow. On a hilltop in Elysian Park in Los Angeles, I pilot the all-wheel-drive Mercedes Benz Vision EQS from its spacesuit-white cockpit. It’s so silent, otherworldly and responsive that I start to wonder if the wheels of this zero-emissions concept are actually touching the tarmac or floating a few centimetres above.

“This is the first time we’re doing an all-purpose electric platform,” says Gorden Wagener, chief design officer of the German marque. “We wanted to start at our top-end segment, but this is very different from the conventional S-Class, three-box sedan you know.”