Whenever someone thinks about an electric car, they inevitably think about a tiny ride that tops out at about 60-80 mph and doesn’t look like anything you would pay very close attention to if you saw it in the street. Mercedes Benz is trying to change all of that, with the announcement of their electric-powered Mercedes SLS AMG coupe, offering 740 hp, all-wheel-drive and a body that looks like liquid metal.
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Although this all sounds too good to be true, it comes at a price. The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric car will set you back $536,804, making it the most expensive vehicle Mercedes-Benz has sold since the demise of Maybach. Who says that saving the world and looking good while doing it would be cheap?
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If you’re wondering where the power to make such an amazing vehicle comes from, look no further than the levee of lithium-ion batteries developed with the help of Mercedes Formula 1 engineers, packed into the tunnel where the drive-lines and transmission used to reside. Using two electric motors on each axle, Mercedes was able to program the SLS AMG so that each wheel can be spun and braked independently. We imagine that this would make for handling that is second to none.
Take a look at some of the pictures of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG electric car in the gallery above!
