- The Mercedes CLA is the primary EV to function each CCS1 and NACS charging ports.
- Each ports are on the fitting aspect of the car beneath the identical charging port door.
- The Mercedes CLA will debut subsequent 12 months with absolutely electrical and hybrid powertrains.
Most producers promoting electrical automobiles within the U.S. have introduced that they may start switching from the standard Mixed Charging System (CCS) plug to Tesla’s North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) plug this 12 months and subsequent. Tesla’s slimmer, sleeker plug kind is anticipated to change into the most typical kind of charger within the coming years, and including entry to the Tesla Supercharger community might be a godsend for American EV drivers all over the place. Mercedes would be the first German automaker to take action beginning with the upcoming CLA-Class EV. However the Silver Arrow model is doing one thing very novel and fascinating right here.
Whereas in Germany at Mercedes’ Sindelfingen manufacturing unit, InsideEVs discovered that it’s going to really include each NACS and CCS charging ports—a really distinctive proposition. If that’s commonplace sufficient, the 2 charging ports might be positioned on the fitting aspect of the automobile, stacked one on high of the opposite beneath the identical charging port door.
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Mercedes CLA Teaser (2025)
Mercedes not too long ago revealed a set of teaser photographs that includes a thinly veiled CLA prototype sporting revealing camouflage, which appeared to have flaps on each flanks. We thought it signaled the arrival of a plug-in hybrid variant. Nonetheless, Mercedes confirmed that the car within the teaser photographs was the EV, which solely had one charging port door on its proper flank. It can solely make the pure electrical or non-plug-in hybrid CLA with a brand-new engine and hybrid system.
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Having the 2 commonest sorts of charging ports will tremendously enhance the CLA’s versatility, giving homeowners the liberty to cost from Tesla Superchargers or any nationwide public quick charging community natively with out the necessity for an adapter. These adapters have generally confirmed problematic, and eliminating the necessity for one will end in a greater consumer expertise, which is what Mercedes is banking on with the CLA.
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We noticed loads of camouflaged CLA prototypes driving across the Sindelfingen manufacturing unit, and it seems like an even bigger and extra grown-up automobile than its predecessor. It’s additionally the primary to be constructed on the 800-volt Mercedes Modular Structure (MMA), which can spawn three extra fashions, together with a capturing brake CLA and two crossovers (certainly one of which can most likely be a GLB-like seven-seater).
The high-voltage platform permits the CLA EV to cost at as much as 320 kilowatts, sufficient so as to add 186 miles (300 kilometers) in 10 minutes with en-route preconditioning. It’s value noting that even the newest V4 Tesla Supercharger continues to be formally restricted to 250 kW of energy (though Tesla desires to improve it to offer over 300 kW), so you’ll possible want a 350 kW CCS station to have the ability to match the official energy declare.
