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Mercedes-Benz EQS charging

The Mercedes-Benz EQS is an electric sedan. You fill it from a J1772 plug at home and from a CCS1 plug on a long drive, and its longest 2027 version is rated at 443 miles on a full battery. Every number below says which version of the car it belongs to, and the two sliders below turn a charge into a time and a price.

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Official range (EPA)

443 mi

2027 500 4matic

How far a full battery is rated to go on the US test.

Battery size

112 kWh

Mercedes-Benz EQS 400 (MY26)

The size of the tank. Bigger means more miles between stops.

Fastest charge

330 kW

10–80% in 26 min

How wide the hose is at a fast charger.

Plugs it uses

CCS1

J1772 at home and slow posts

The shape that has to fit the socket.

Price from

$89,950

2026 EQS SUV · 400 4MATIC

Before tax, delivery and incentives. 6 versions priced, up to $180,000.

The range and battery cards name different versions on purpose. One is the longest 2027 row the EPA tested, the other is the catalogue's charging record — because the EPA lists a range per trim and the catalogue lists one battery per trim. The price is a third source again: the cheapest version on the price sheet, which is not always the version the other two cards describe. Nothing below quietly mixes them.

Sedan · 2022–2027 · AWD

5 seats. 610 L of boot space. The photo is the model the catalogue lists, not a photo of a particular car for sale.

Start here

Six terms, in plain words

None of this needs a physics degree. Each term on a window sticker is one idea, and here they are in the order they turn up.

EPA range

A score from one official test.

The car runs on a rolling road until the battery is empty. Every car sits the same test, so the numbers compare fairly. It is a lab score, not a promise: a cold morning or a steady 75 mph uses more energy than the test did.

US trim

A version of the same car.

The body is the same; the wheels, motors or battery are not. A model is usually sold in several versions — Pure, Touring and Grand Touring on this car — and the EPA publishes a range for each one it tested, which is why one model carries several numbers for one year.

kWh

The size of the tank.

A kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy. A bigger battery holds more of it and goes further. This page shows the usable figure where the data says so, because a pack never gives up every last bit.

kW

How wide the hose is.

A kilowatt is a rate: energy per second. The same battery fills from a 1.4 kW wall socket or a 200 kW-plus fast charger. Wide hose, quicker fill — as long as the car and the station both agree.

AC and DC

Two kinds of electricity.

Home wiring supplies AC, and the car's own charger turns it into DC. A fast charger does that conversion in the station and feeds the battery directly, which is why it is many times quicker.

10–80%

The happy middle of a battery.

Packs accept full power in the middle and slow right down past 80% to protect the cells. That is why a road-trip stop is usually 10% to 80%: the last fifth can take as long as the first half.

Range

How far can it go on one charge?

The Mercedes-Benz EQS is rated between 312 and 443 miles on a full battery, depending on the version; the highest belongs to the 2027 500 4matic.

The official figure comes from the EPA, the US agency that scores every car the same way: a full battery, a rolling road, and a number of miles at the end. It is the fair way to compare two cars, and still only a lab score — wind, hills, heaters and speed all take a bite out of it.

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Model year

In 2027, the Mercedes-Benz EQS was rated between 312 mi and 443 mi on a full battery, depending on the version.

500 4matic
443 mi
580 4matic
434 mi
−9 mi
550 4matic (SUV)
317 mi
−126 mi
400 4matic (SUV)
312 mi
−131 mi

Trim names are the EPA's own labels, unedited, so “G Touring” is short for Grand Touring. Each row is a version the EPA tested; a version it did not test has no row. Figures are miles on the EPA's lab test, not a prediction of your commute.

Charging time

How long does a charge take?

A 10–80% fast stop takes about 26 minutes at a charger that can deliver the car's peak, and a full charge on a 7.2 kW home charger takes about 17 hours.

Three things decide it, and the slowest one wins: what the station can supply, what the car will accept, and how much the battery wants at that moment. Move the sliders and the answer changes with you.

Step 1 — where are you plugging in?

The usual highway stop.

Step 2 — how full is the battery, and how full do you want it?

0%80% — most cars slow down here100%

Start at20%Stop at80%

60% of the battery, from 20% to 80%.

Step 3 — what do you pay per kWh?

Your charge

Time at this charger: 27 min
Cost: $23.52
Energy: 67.2 kWh

About a lunch stop. The session draws about 150 kW on average — a peak figure would be a promise the last part of the charge does not keep.

Times use the 112 kWh battery and 330 kW DC peak from the Mercedes-Benz EQS 400 (MY26) record, and scale from its 26-minute 10–80% figure. Above 80% the estimate assumes a much slower rate; cold batteries and shared stations can be slower still.

The station

1.4–350 kW

A wall socket gives about 1.4 kW; a highway post 150–350 kW. The site's rating is a ceiling, not a promise.

The car

11 kW AC

The car takes no more than its own limit — 330 kW on DC, 11 kW on AC. A bigger charger cannot change that.

The battery

slower past 80%

Above 80% the pack asks for far less power to protect the cells, which is why trips stop at 80%.

The reasoning behind those numbers is on how long EV charging takes and Level 2 vs DC fast.

Plugs

Which plug fits this car?

Only two shapes matter: the one on the car and the one on the charger. The AC plug covers home charging and slow public posts; the DC plug covers fast stops on a trip.

J1772

AC charging

SAE J1772 · Typically 3.3–19.2 kW

J1772 is the AC connector on almost every non-Tesla EV and plug-in hybrid sold in North America. At public stations it is usually a Level 2 charger.

Where you meet it: destination charging while parked.

More about J1772 Stations with this plug

Photo: Michael Hicks (mulad) · CC BY 2.0

CCS1

DC charging

SAE J1772 CCS Combo 1 · Typically 50–350 kW

CCS1 is the DC fast connector on most non-Tesla EVs in North America. It keeps the J1772 shape for the AC pins and adds two DC pins underneath.

Where you meet it: fast charging on a longer trip.

More about CCS1 Stations with this plug

Photo: Ken Fields · CC BY-SA 2.0

An adapter changes the shape of the plug, not what the car can accept or what the station can supply. It can bridge a standard; it cannot create power, access or a faster session.

This page lists the connectors the model reports. The directory records the connector a station reports, so a station that carries both a J1772 post and a CCS1 fast charger appears under each — and a car is not guaranteed a free one.

Cost

What does a charge cost?

Charging is priced by the kilowatt-hour, like electricity at home. The directory's median tariff is $0.35 per kWh — the middle of the prices networks actually list, not a quote for any one station.

At that median, filling the 112 kWh battery from empty at a DC post bills about $41.26. A 10–80% stop, the usual road-trip habit, moves about 70% of it and bills about $28.88. Type your own price into the calculator above to see your number instead.

Both figures are metered energy, not battery energy: a DC post puts roughly 95% of what it draws into the pack, so the bill sits slightly above battery × price. At home the conversion is closer to 90%. What is not in either figure: session fees, idle fees, parking and taxes. The state cost table has the local medians, and cost per mile turns this into a comparison with petrol.

Sources

US figures from the October 2026 data build. How these sources are chosen, and what a figure here never claims, is on the methodology page.

Full charge

$41.26

At $0.35 per kWh at a DC post, charging losses included.

10–80% stop

$28.88

About 70% of the battery, which is what most trips use.

Cheapest state median

$0.28

Iowa, per kWh — the lowest state median with a comparable sample.

Priced stations

3,805

Stations in the directory that publish a per-kWh tariff.

CalculatorPrice a charge for your state and your tariff

Prices

What it costs, version by version

The 2026 Mercedes-Benz EQS starts at $89,950 for the EQS SUV · 400 4MATIC and reaches $180,000 for the EQS SUV · 680 Maybach 4MATIC — $90,050 between the two ends of the same car. 6 versions are listed for that model year.

These are manufacturer list prices, as the price sheet records them. They are not a quote: sales tax, destination and delivery charges, options and any incentive are outside them, and a dealer's number will differ.

Price sheet · October 2026

Starts at

$89,950

EQS SUV · 400 4MATIC, 2026.

Top version

$180,000

EQS SUV · 680 Maybach 4MATIC — the dearest version listed.

Versions priced

Model year 2026. Earlier or later years are not in the sheet.

Per mile of range

$288

$82 above the median across every priced model here. List price divided by the sheet's own rated range on the cheapest version.

List prices by version for the Mercedes-Benz EQS
Version	Year	Drive	Battery	DC peak	0–100 km/h	List price
400 4MATICEQS SUVCheapest	2026	AWD	118 kWh	200 kW	5.9 s	$89,950
450 PlusEQS SedanLongest range	2026	RWD	118 kWh	200 kW	5.9 s	$99,900
450 4MATICEQS Sedan	2026	AWD	118 kWh	200 kW	5.4 s	$102,900
550 4MATICEQS SUV	2026	AWD	118 kWh	200 kW	4.6 s	$112,450
580 4MATICEQS Sedan	2026	AWD	118 kWh	200 kW	4.2 s	$123,900
680 Maybach 4MATICEQS SUV	2026	AWD	118 kWh	200 kW	4.1 s	$180,000

The EQS SUV · 400 4MATIC, in numbers

Price sheet

Seats: 7
Cargo volume: 651 L (23 cu ft)
Towing: 1,588 kg (3,500.937 lb)
Curb weight: 2,860 kg (6,305.213 lb)
Top speed: 210 km/h (130.488 mph)
Power: 265 kW (355.37 hp)
Torque: 800 Nm (590.05 lb-ft)
Onboard AC charger: 9.6 kW
Battery chemistry: NMC
Vehicle-to-load: No
Plug and charge: Yes

The table names versions, not trims the EPA tested. A price row and an EPA row can therefore differ in wording even when they describe the same car — the sheet writes “400 4MATIC” where the label may write something else. The EPA rows are listed below, unedited.

Rated range is in this sheet too, but it is not printed here: it disagrees with the EPA label on a handful of rows, and two range figures for one car on one page is a page that argues with itself. The price-per-mile figure above stays inside the sheet's own numbers. The longest-legged version in the sheet is the EQS Sedan · 450 Plus at 390 miles of rated range (628 km).

Battery, DC peak and the 0–100 time are the sheet's own per-version figures, which is why they can differ from the single catalogue record in the specifications section: a model sold in several battery sizes has one number per size, not one number for the car. 1 mile = 1.609 km.

These are list prices, not quotes. For the whole field side by side, see every model ranked by price.

US trims

Every version, year by year

This is the list the chart above is drawn from. The names are the EPA's own labels, kept exactly as published — spelling, abbreviations and all — because rewriting a source label is how a table stops matching its source.

33 rows from fueleconomy.gov

Show every EPA row (33)Year · trim · range

US trims and EPA range for the Mercedes-Benz EQS
Year	Trim	EPA range
2027	EQS 400 4matic (SUV)	312 mi
2027	EQS 500 4matic	443 mi
2027	EQS 550 4matic (SUV)	317 mi
2027	EQS 580 4matic	434 mi
2026	EQS 400 4matic (SUV)	312 mi
2026	EQS 450 4matic	367 mi
2026	EQS 450 Plus	390 mi
2026	EQS 550 4matic (SUV)	317 mi
2026	EQS 580 4matic	371 mi
2026	EQS 680 4matic Maybach (SUV)	300 mi
2025	AMG EQS 4matic Plus	315 mi
2025	EQS 450 4matic	367 mi
2025	EQS 450 4matic (SUV)	312 mi
2025	EQS 450 Plus	390 mi
2025	EQS 450 Plus (SUV)	323 mi
2025	EQS 580 4matic	371 mi
2025	EQS 580 4matic (SUV)	317 mi
2025	EQS 680 4matic Maybach (SUV)	302 mi
2024	AMG EQS 4matic Plus	305 mi
2024	EQS 450 4matic	345 mi
2024	EQS 450 4matic (SUV)	330 mi
2024	EQS 450 Plus	352 mi
2024	EQS 450 Plus (SUV)	339 mi
2024	EQS 580 4matic	345 mi
2024	EQS 580 4matic (SUV)	330 mi
2024	EQS 680 4matic Maybach (SUV)	280 mi
2023	EQS 450 4matic	340 mi
2023	EQS 450 4matic (SUV)	285 mi
2023	EQS 450 Plus (SUV)	305 mi
2023	EQS 580 4matic (SUV)	285 mi
2022	AMG EQS 4matic Plus	277 mi
2022	EQS 450 Plus	350 mi
2022	EQS 580 4matic	340 mi

EPA figures are the US label; they are not converted from WLTP. A trim the EPA does not list has no row, and an all-wheel-drive version of a rear-drive model appears as its own row because the EPA tested it separately.

Catalogue detail

Specifications

From the European catalogue trim Mercedes-Benz EQS 400 (MY26) (2026). US trims, EPA range and connectors are above; equipment and dimensions can differ by market.

Performance

Performance from the European catalogue trim
Power	270 kW (362 hp)
Torque	505 Nm (372 lb-ft)
0–100 km/h	6.2 s
Top speed	210 km/h (130 mph)
Drivetrain	RWD
Platform	Mercedes-Benz EVA2

Battery, range and V2X

Battery, range and V2X from the European catalogue trim
Usable battery	112 kWh
Nominal battery	118.5 kWh
Chemistry	Lithium-ion
Warranty	10 years / 250,000 km
WLTP range (EU)	670 km (416 mi)
Efficiency (WLTP)	16.7 kWh/100 km
Cold highway (catalogue estimate)	436 km (271 mi)
Mild urban (catalogue estimate)	770 km (478 mi)
V2H	Not supported
V2G	Not supported

WLTP and catalogue estimates describe the European trim; EPA range is above. V2X rows are the maker's catalogue equipment.

Dimensions and practicality

Dimensions and practicality from the European catalogue trim
Length	5,225 mm (205.7 in)
Width (with mirrors)	2,138 mm (84.2 in)
Height	1,510 mm (59.4 in)
Wheelbase	3,210 mm (126.4 in)
Curb weight	2,550 kg (5,622 lb)
GVWR	3,120 kg (6,878 lb)
Payload	645 kg (1,422 lb)
Turning circle	11.9 m (39 ft)
Boot	610 L (21.5 cu ft)
Max cargo	1,690 L (59.7 cu ft)
Frunk	0 L (0 cu ft)
Towing (braked)	1,600 kg (3,527 lb)
Towing (unbraked)	750 kg (1,653 lb)
Seats	5
Segment	F - Luxury
ISOFIX	Yes, 2 seats
Roof rails	No
Heat pump	Standard Equipment

Questions

Answers, briefly

Short answers first, the reasoning below each. Every figure here comes from the same data as the rest of the page.

Still unsure about a term? The charging glossary covers the rest of them.

What connector does the Mercedes-Benz EQS use?

It lists J1772 for AC charging and CCS1 for DC fast charging. J1772 is what a home charger and a slow public post use; CCS1 is the fast plug for a longer trip. An adapter may bridge another standard, but support varies by vehicle and station.

How long does it take to charge a Mercedes-Benz EQS?

The catalogue's 112 kWh usable battery and 330 kW DC peak give a 10–80% session of about 26 minutes at a station that can deliver the power. AC charging peaks at 11 kW, which suits overnight charging rather than a trip stop.

What is the EPA range of the Mercedes-Benz EQS?

The 2027 Mercedes-Benz EQS is rated between 312 and 443 miles, depending on the trim. The highest figure belongs to the 500 4matic; every model year the EPA tested is listed on the page, and each row is a different version of the same car.

What does "US trim" mean on this page?

A trim is a version of the same car: same body, different wheels, motors or battery. The EPA tests each version separately, so one model can carry several range figures for the same year. Bigger wheels are the usual reason two rows differ, because they add drag and rolling resistance.

How much does it cost to charge a Mercedes-Benz EQS?

At the directory's median of $0.35 per kWh, filling the 112 kWh battery from empty at a DC post bills about $41.26, and a 10–80% session about $28.88. Both are metered energy, so the charging loss is inside them. The median is the middle of the per-kWh tariffs networks list; session fees, idle fees and parking are excluded, and a home tariff is often cheaper.

Can a Mercedes-Benz EQS use a Tesla Supercharger?

The Mercedes-Benz EQS's fast-charge plug is CCS1. Some Tesla sites in this directory report a CCS1 plug; whether a particular site accepts an adapter is not recorded, so filter the map for CCS1 before you rely on one.

How much does a Mercedes-Benz EQS cost?

The 2026 Mercedes-Benz EQS is listed from $89,950 for the EQS SUV · 400 4MATIC up to $180,000 for the EQS SUV · 680 Maybach 4MATIC. Those are manufacturer list prices before sales tax, destination and delivery charges, options and any incentive, and a dealer's number will differ. 6 versions are priced for that model year.