This plug-in SUV is dressed to cosplay a fully electric SUV, right down to its 3-ton mass, DC fast-charging port, quiet interior, and 0-60 time.
. We all know prospective EV buyers will look for a long-range fully electric SUV with a 100-ish-kWh battery pack, 80 percent of which will only be needed a handful of times per year. Here, instead of carrying 1,000 pounds of surplus battery, you're lugging perhaps 700 to 800 pounds' worth of just-in-case engine, transmission, fuel, and exhaust systems.
Boasting a combined 381 hp and 479 lb-ft, the hybrid's rated output is just enough more than the gas GLE450 model's to cope with the roughly 750-pound weight difference. Indeed, the traces of the two GLE450s' acceleration curves are very close together, with the pricier hybrid slightly ahead. Zero to 60 mph happens in 5.5 seconds en route to a 14.0-second, 98.2-mph quarter mile in the PHEV, as compared with 5.6 and 14.2 at 97.4 mph in the gasser.
We discovered by monitoring one of about a gazillion possible display screens that a throttle angle of 65 percent or more triggers the GLE450e's gas engine—that's well shy of the 95 or so percent kickdown switch detent some automakers use to fire the engine, such as Alfa Romeo in the Tonale PHEV.The GLE450e starts up in electric mode by default whenever the battery state of charge permits.
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