Mercedes-AMG’s 1,341-HP Tri-Motor EV Declares War On The Taycan
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Mercedes-AMG wants to upend the performance electric sedan segment with a new fastback that packs up to 1,341 horsepower and can hit 223 mph (358 km/h). It will be the first vehicle built on the AMG Electric Architecture (AMG.EA) previewed by the Concept AMG GT XX study, which looks almost production-ready.
The GT XX concept is the clearest vision yet of how AMG plans to go electric: fast, loud and sideways in a plume of tire smoke. It’s not groundbreaking by Chinese or Lucid standards, but it’s still an impressive technical achievement that promises to be more than the sum of its parts and deliver a truly exhilarating drive, which is what everybody expects from an AMG, regardless of what powers it.
Motivating the GT XX is a trio of electric motors: one powers the front axle, and it features two drive units in the back, one for each wheel, allowing for precise torque vectoring, akin to a limited-slip differential cranked up to eleven. Mercedes claims the axial flux motors used in this EV have around three times the power density compared to a radial electric motor.
