The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 500- First Drive

Take a first drive with Smail’s Digital Content Creator Carolinn and Videographer Samuel as they test out the 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 500!

Samuel Oplinger 0:01
Meet Carolinn. She’s our digital content creator at Smail meaning she is not a salesman. Today I asked her if she would like to drive the all new 2023 Mercedes EQE 500 electric car.

The model we got to try today is in this beautiful emerald green color.

Let’s hope inside and see what her first impressions are. Okay we’re inside the car what do you think?

Carolinn Costa 0:42
It looks crazy like I don’t even know where to begin.

Samuel Oplinger 0:47
It looks like a spaceship.

Carolinn Costa 0:48
It does like this light here like just everythings really pretty.

Samuel Oplinger 0:52
So the first impression is it’s a very pretty car.

Carolinn Costa 0:54
Its gorgeous.

Samuel Oplinger 0:55
What do you think about the the way you shift to park and drive?

Carolinn Costa 0:59
Yeah this is really cool. So like this button is for parking but then just move it up and down reverse neutral drive.

Samuel Oplinger 1:11
It’s very nice.

Carolinn Costa 1:11
Yeah, and then you press it if you wanna park.

Samuel Oplinger 1:14
oh okay

Carolinn Costa 1:15
So I definitely wanted to see about these lights here like that’s the first thing I think of when I think of Mercedes. So we notice you just swipe it and you go to settings and then ambient lighting manage settings and

Samuel Oplinger 1:34
Uh is it changing?

Carolinn Costa 1:35
Yeah, so like

Samuel Oplinger 1:36
Oh my gosh what, that is crazy cool.

Carolinn Costa 1:41
That is so fun.

Samuel Oplinger 1:43
And it just changes the whole

Carolinn Costa 1:44
Its a vibe. Oh wait that the sound?

Samuel Oplinger 1:45
What.. what

Carolinn Costa 1:46
Get outta here okay wait lets go back.

Samuel Oplinger 1:46
That is so neat.

Carolinn Costa 1:54
And you can do passenger too.

Samuel Oplinger 1:55
Okay and it changes the whole lighting.

Carolinn Costa 2:00
It goes with it cause like thats joy so like say we wanted like summer rain let’s try that. Oh my god and it makes noises too.

Samuel Oplinger 2:13
That is so neat right?

Carolinn Costa 2:14
That is fun.

Samuel Oplinger 2:15
This is already like

Carolinn Costa 2:16
Yeah thats a winner.

Samuel Oplinger 2:16
The coolest car ive seen

Carolinn Costa 2:16
Yeah.

Samuel Oplinger 2:17
Lets see what the other ones are. It turns green all the lighting.

Carolinn Costa 2:24
The sound to like its such great quality like the sound sounds like I’m in a forest, well also.

Samuel Oplinger 2:29
Oh yeah you can change

Carolinn Costa 2:29
The volume.

Samuel Oplinger 2:30
The volume on there.

Carolinn Costa 2:31
So it’s literally a slide like touch up down it adjusts it.

Samuel Oplinger 2:38
And you could do it on this as well im pretty sure right?

Carolinn Costa 2:40
Yeah!

Navigation oh.

Samuel Oplinger 2:45
Oh look at that!

Carolinn Costa 2:46
Oh so you can have charging stations so like you know where to charge your phone, car.

Car parking spaces.

Samuel Oplinger 2:51
Is there a charging station nearby?

Carolinn Costa 2:54
Lets see.

Yeah, point seven miles.

Oh really?

Then you click it. Oh cool. See?

Samuel Oplinger 3:03
I’ve never charged one of these. Do you want to try and go charge one?

Carolinn Costa 3:05
We can.

Samuel Oplinger 3:06
I think we should do that. Let’s set the route and go charge one.

Oh, it’s like a proper navigation. Do you see that?

Carolinn Costa 3:16
Oh, my God what.

Samuel Oplinger 3:23
Is it like telling us where to go?

Carolinn Costa 3:24
I think so lets start it. And the seatbelt something I noticed when you put the seatbelt on it, like, adjust so it tightens up for like safety.

Samuel Oplinger 3:27
Oh I just felt that too. Right, right.

Carolinn Costa 3:33
That’s really nice.

Samuel Oplinger 3:34
Okay, so we have a little map to follow off of I think so let’s.

Carolinn Costa 3:40
So we’re gonna down to drive.

Samuel Oplinger 3:45
Yeah it’s like telling us where to go.

Carolinn Costa 3:47
Oh my god. It’s like a the view. Oh it talks.

Samuel Oplinger 3:51
Yeah.

Carolinn Costa 3:52
Oh, okay. So and then it has it right here too.

Samuel Oplinger 3:56
That is crazy.

Carolinn Costa 3:57
Omg and like from my view.

Samuel Oplinger 3:59
Yeah

Carolinn Costa 4:00
It has the map right here.

Samuel Oplinger 4:01
Oh, you can see the map outta here

Carolinn Costa 4:03
It has like the arrow and everything with a blue line.

Samuel Oplinger 4:05
How does the car handle how does it drive?

Carolinn Costa 4:07
It’s so smooth. Like it’s really nice and look you can see the cars in front of you like it’s literally like live action. That is so cool.

Samuel Oplinger 4:16
That is amazing.

On our way we realized the two closest charging stations happen to be already at the dealerships we drove in a little bit of a circle. But after the third location we tried 4.3 miles down the highway we found the first public charging station.

How do you think this is going to be to charge it?

Carolinn Costa 4:53
I have no idea, it should be easy.

Samuel Oplinger 4:55
We went to the wrong charging station first. And then we finally came here so we’re not. Let’s see how this works the charge it. So let’s go. Upon on arrival, we realized that car was already 92%. So Carolinn suggested.

Carolinn Costa 5:15
Lets show them how.

Samuel Oplinger 5:08
Yeah lets just show them how. To begin charging you tap your card. And then when you’d like to stop charging, you tap your card again. And here’s the pump looks very similar to a gas pump, all you need to do is just press on the car and it pops right open, there is a little manual on the side of the car that explains what you need to do. Me and Carolinn decided to hop back in the car and go over some more features and our first impressions to them.

Carolinn Costa 5:28
So if you press like you can press climate menu. And you can the really cool things you can control like the air or the heat and the first row of seats or second row. So there is a little control thing back here for them to control it. But like if you have kids, I guess you could auto control it for them. Um there’s also an air quality so like it tells you how the air is if it’s good.

Samuel Oplinger 5:34
Ohhhh.

Carolinn Costa 5:51
Also this to clean the inside of the the air for the vehicle.

Samuel Oplinger 5:55
Right.

Carolinn Costa 5:56
And then fragrance. I know Mercedes is known for their fragrance fragrances for like these things here. So you just have to insert a vial.

Samuel Oplinger 6:05
Oh you insert the vial and then they come through. That is super cool.

Carolinn Costa 6:09
So there’s a lot of space here and I was a little bit confused on how open but this is a button. Just press it and it goes really far down there. There’s also charging cords right there if you want to plug in your phone, but it’s really nice because I feel like in a lot of cars, there’s never enough space here. So that’s really nice. So like you have a lot of space down here. If you have to strap something down.

Samuel Oplinger 6:09
That’s super neat though cause I always.

Carolinn Costa 6:09
Thats a lot of space.

Samuel Oplinger 6:10
Right.

Carolinn Costa 6:10
Like.

Samuel Oplinger 6:10
that’s an insane amount of space.

Carolinn Costa 6:34
My purse could perfectly fit down there like I hate having to throw my purse in the back set it here. So this pushes your back up or down. Thats really cool.

Samuel Oplinger 6:46
That’s super neat.

Carolinn Costa 6:47
And then this if you go like this it pushes you up and then back.

Samuel Oplinger 6:54
That’s super neat how they have like the whole seat layout there.

Carolinn Costa 6:56
Yeah.

Samuel Oplinger 6:57
As well.

Carolinn Costa 6:57
So yeah, you can tell where at on your body that you want to move. And then like if you press down that pushes down this part like I feel it going down and then I can bring it back up.

Samuel Oplinger 7:08
Because I know my first impression when I get in the car is I want to reach underneath and try to move the seat and I did that and there was nothing there. We have one on this side as well.

As we were on our way back at the dealership to give our last thoughts and impressions a car salesmen let us know this interesting detail.

Scott 7:26
Now one of the features on this car is that it parks itself and is parktronic you’re ready to see how this thing works.

Samuel Oplinger 7:32
Let’s do it!

So what do you think of the car?

Carolinn Costa 7:53
I love it personally like I didn’t really understand before all the hype with Mercedes but I get it like this is my first time driving one and it drives so smooth. There’s so many cool features I definitely see why people hype it.

Samuel Oplinger 8:05
It does it is like a spaceship inside like the wood paneling was super cool the lights it drives super smooth as well. I get it. I definitely understand it. What do you give this out of 10?

Carolinn Costa 8:15
I’m saying a nine.

Samuel Oplinger 8:16
A nine?

Carolinn Costa 8:16
I really like it.

Samuel Oplinger 8:17
Yeah nine?

Carolinn Costa 8:18
I really do.

Samuel Oplinger 8:18
I’d put it up in the eight or nines as well. It’s a solid car. I like it a lot. This was our first drive and first impressions of the 2023 Mercedes EQE 500. Thank you for watching!

*Transcribed by https://otter.ai