Now you can pay a monthly fee to un-nerf your electric Mercedes
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6B7SB)
EQE and EQS electric sedans. | Image: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz has new finalized pricing on its vexing Acceleration Increase" subscription revealed last year that can eke out more electric performance - without any physical modification - from the automaker's current EQE and EQS EV models, Car and Driver reports.
The updated Acceleration Increase pricing starts at $60 per month, or you can save about $120 and pay $600 per year instead. That pricing only applies to the AWD EQE 350 sedan and its SUV counterpart. Meanwhile, the pricier AWD EQS 450 car and SUV command a higher $90 per month (or $900 per year) rate for their own boost.
Mercedes-Benz had initially set the subscription at $1,200 per year, but now it's been reduced a bit to a slightly-less-unreasonable rate. The automaker is...