Mercedes EQE saloon - Reliability & safety
Mercedes’ generous battery warranty suggests the powertrain should be reliable
The standard three-year warranty Mercedes offers is pretty average, but it also offers a 10-year/155,000-mile warranty for the battery pack. Many EVs get an eight-year, 100,000-mile battery warranty, so Mercedes appears to be really confident that its electric cars will last a long time.
Mercedes EQE reliability
It’s too early to tell whether the Mercedes EQE will be reliable or not. After all, there’s a huge array of next-generation tech on it, and these functions could be expensive to fix if they do misbehave.
Mercedes finished a very disappointing 25th out of 32 brands in our 2023 Driver Power survey, below BMW but ahead of Audi. Of our respondents, 28% of Mercedes owners said they’d come across a fault in the first year of ownership.
Safety
When Euro NCAP tested the EQE it was a full five-star result as expected, and the car received top marks for adult and child occupants - so it’s a great car for family safety in the event of a crash.
Standard equipment includes traffic sign recognition and an emergency calling system, plus a fingerprint scanner to keep your personal and payment details secure.
AMG Line Premium models benefit from a Driving Assistance Package, featuring blind-spot monitoring, lane-keeping assistance and a system that will automatically brake at speeds of up to 80mph if it spots a hazard you’re not slowing down for.
The trim levels above that get the Plus package, with evasive steering and semi-autonomous driving capabilities – including slowing down for corners and roundabouts.
At speeds up to 19mph, the EQE emits a noise to warn pedestrians or cyclists of its presence.
