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Mercedes VLE eight-seater will offer limo luxury

And the new van will come with both electric and combustion power. Mercedes is now officially teasing its new VLE people mover as production gets underway in Vitoria, Spain.  The replacement for the all-electric EQV will ride on a new VAN.EA platform and there will be an internal combustion-engined alternative.  Mercedes has released a teaser image of its new mid-size MPV (top) to celebrate production starting. The VLE should dot down in...

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Mercedes is readying the EQV replacement dubbed VLE

The Mercedes VLE is currently undergoing road tests ahead of its 2026 launch. Mercedes has been validating the van’s efficiency and performance. A run from Stuttgart to Rome, crossing the Alps, served as one of the most recent tests. The new electric van managed to travel from Stuttgart to Rome with two 15min rapid-charging stops. The almost 1100km trip took 13 hours, and the engineers drove it normally on road with the cabin air conditioning set at 22deg C for the duration. That suggests a real-world range of up to 480km from its 116kWh battery, although an official figure...

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