Mercedes-Benz is dropping the EQE electric sedan from its US lineup for the 2027 model year, along with the Mercedes-Maybach EQS 680 SUV and the Mercedes-AMG S63 E Performance plug-in hybrid, a company spokesperson told Car and Driver.
The EQE sedan goes in both its Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG forms, the magazine reported on Thursday.
The EQE SUV is not among the models cut, and the Mercedes-Benz versions of the EQS sedan and EQS SUV also stay in the range.
Mercedes has not published a statement on the changes.
Still Listed
The three models leave at the end of the 2026 model year, and two of them were still on Mercedes-Benz USA’s website on Friday.
The site lists the EQE 320+ sedan from $64,950, the EQE 320 4MATIC sedan from $67,450 and the AMG EQE sedan from $96,600.
The Maybach EQS 680 SUV is listed from $180,000, the highest starting price of any electric model on the site.
The AMG S63 E Performance no longer appears there. The EQE SUV starts at the same $64,950 as the sedan.
A Second Retreat
The decision follows a pause a year earlier.
Mercedes closed US order books for the EQE and EQS sedans and SUVs in July 2025, and stopped building them for the market from September 1 of that year, as the federal EV tax credit was about to expire.
The four models returned in January.
“Mercedes-Benz USA temporarily adjusted US EQ order availability last summer to align with US market demand,” the company told The Drive at the time.
The EQE sedan’s return has therefore lasted a single model year.
Falling Sales
Mercedes-Benz USA no longer publishes sales by model, so the EQE sedan’s recent volume is not known.
The last figures it gave showed combined US sales of the EQE sedan and SUV falling 39% in 2024 to 11,660, from 19,104 a year earlier.
EQS sales fell 52% over the same period to 6,963.
The company has since said that its US battery electric sales rose by more than 50% in the second quarter of 2026, citing “exceptionally strong” demand for the electric GLC, CLA and GLB.
Away From the EQ Line
Those three are electric versions of existing nameplates, where the EQE and EQS were designed as separate models with their own styling.
Car and Driver described the EQ models as “something of a failed first draft” for the company.
The cuts leave the EQE SUV, the EQS sedan and the EQS SUV as the remaining models of that first generation on sale in the United States.
Autocar reported in 2025 that production of both the EQE sedan and the EQE SUV would end in 2026, citing overlap with newer electric models, a report Mercedes declined to confirm.
The magazine said a planned mid-life update for the EQE, with an 800-volt architecture, a silicon-carbide inverter and newer motors, had been dropped and reserved for the EQS sedan and EQS SUV.
It named the electric C-Class as the indirect replacement for the EQE sedan.
The EQE sedan is built in Bremen, Germany, and the EQE SUV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Tuscaloosa is Mercedes’s largest US manufacturing site, where it has built more than five million vehicles since 1997.
The AMG S63 E Performance pairs a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 with an electric motor for a combined 791 horsepower.
Mercedes has not announced a replacement for it.
