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Very simply, it’s a Mercedes-Benz pure electric SUV with portal axles. A baby electric Unimog. Sort of. The idea isn’t actually that complicated: take the pure-electric EQC and drop it on some terrain-friendly portal axles, make light work of anything off-road within range. A portal axle or gearset, for those of us with less engineering in our lives, is basically a suspension set-up that allows the driveshafts to be offset above the centreline of a traditional axle, via the use of a small set of geared hubs.

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