The slippery EV has the lowest drag coefficient for any production vehicle. We tested it out in Germany.
test track in southern Germany’s rural Immendingen region. Instead of chasing distance records, our goal was simply to evaluate this technical tour de force, which represents the automaker’s vision for all future road-going electric vehicles. Under the floor, the EQXX has a compact, energy-dense 100 kwh battery that’s 50 percent smaller and 30 percent lighter than the comparably powerful pack that motivates the marque’s current flagship EV, the EQS.
That high rate of slipperiness can make for some spooky sensations, as when lifting off the throttle on a flat section of the track—with no discernable effect on the vehicle’s speed. The car just coasts. And coasts, and coasts. 5,888-pound heft.
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