MERCEDES EQA 250 RANGE TEST (highway and city)

I’m going to test the range on the highway first. I’m also going to drive a bit sportier on country roads in this test. The purpose of this part of the test is to find out the minimum range of this car by testing it at higher average speeds.

At the beginning of the drive, the battery is fully charged to 100%. The range is 372 km. I did the test in August and it was between 15.5 and 23 degrees. The first part of the test is a 113 km ride at 120 km/h from Brussels to the Ardennes. The battery is only 64% and the average consumption is 20.7 kWh. I will base my range projections on consumption and net capacity of the battery. The total range based on this consumption is 321 km.

I am now going off the highway for some sporty driving on country roads in the Ardennes. This stretch was 34 km and the average consumption is 21.8 kWh higher than on the highway. After this part, the total average consumption is 21.1 kWh. The range has now dropped to 315 km. Now we drive all the way back on the highway from the Ardennes to Brussels. Let’s look at the end result.

The battery dropped to 8% and the total length of the ride was 303 km. The average consumption was 19.8, so the total range on the highway is 336 km .

I charge the car at an AC public charging station of 22 kw in Brussels. The EQA 250’s onboard charger has a speed of 11kW, so this is what we’re going to get. On the Mercedes site they talked about a charging time of 6h25 min to charge from 10 to 100% with a wallbox. I charged the car from 8% to 100%. The charging time was 5h50.

For the sake of completeness, I would like to mention that you can also DC fast charge up to 100 kW, but I have not tested this. You should be able to charge from 10% to 80% in 30 minutes.

Now let’s test the range at lower average speeds in the city. I want to know what the maximum range of this car could be. Let’s take a look at my results

I drained the battery to 65% to know the average consumption so that I could estimate the total range. I stopped at 65%, because the average consumption at my last measurement points not changed that much. The first 21 km stretch was purely typical urban riding in Brussels. The consumption is 21 kWh which is on the high side. This is mainly due to the many traffic lights and busier traffic resulting in a lot of stop-and-go driving.

Afterwards I was still in an urban area, but with more opportunity to drive through. As you can see, consumption has fallen considerably and over a journey of 133 km consumption was 17.4 kWh.

This results in a range of 382 km in the city . I’d say 17.4 city fuel consumption is on the higher side compared to other cars I’ve tested in the same conditions.

In conclusion I can say that the range of the Mercedes EQA 250 under comparable driving conditions is somewhere between 336 km and 382 km . Even though I did the test in August, it wasn’t really very hot. I think at even higher temperatures, you’ll probably get a range close to the WLTP range of 427 km. In winter you will probably get a lower range.

Here you can view my night ride with demo of the ambient lighting. Watch my full POV test drive video with the Mercedes EQA 250 here.