By Casey Williams | Tribune News Service (TNS) So, my friend asks, “Hey, Casey, what are you driving this week?” To which I reply, “One of the new Mercedes electric vehicles.” “Is it roomy?” “Oh, yeah, lots of space. It’s like a bus inside!” My daughter overhears this conversation as we’re rushing out the door to my dentist appointment.
I’m sure she imagines her favorite Mercedes EQS uber-luxury electric sedan as she smugly sweeps out the door. She drops all of her attitude, flips around, grimaces, and busts out giggling when she spies the eSprinter. It’s not quite what she had in mind.
It is one ginormous Mercedes-Benz, an electric version of the popular Sprinter commercial van that you’ll likely see picking up a cadre of travelers for an airport run or fronting your plumber when they arrive to fix your toilet. This barn-dominium is astonishingly easy to drive, though. I’d be careful not to scalp its walk-in roof going into parking garages, but we had no trouble running errands.
It parked easy at the dentist. You sit high and forward with big glass and mirrors all around. It shrinks in your hands, which should be a relief for contractors who will be slipping them in and out of tight driveways and narrow alleyways as part of their daily toil.
I tell my daughter to be careful getting out. She says, “Yeah, it would be quite a tumble! Might need repelling ropes.” Making deliveries, the eSprinter makes a cavern of sense.
Base models achieve 160 mil.