The EQS,
a flagship that pulls away without a sound.
Mercedes builds its electric flagship around the person on the rear bench, and we run it on the First Class list: €90 to Schiphol, €140 back into town, €100 an hour. The only thing missing is the engine.
A flagship whose loudest sound is the indicator.
Amsterdam is a city of short hops between long waits: a bridge over the Prinsengracht, a queue for the Piet Heintunnel, two sets of lights on the Weesperstraat. An electric flagship spends all of that in silence, and guests notice it in the first minute — the conversation started at the kerb carries on at the same volume all the way to the Zuidas, and nobody raises their voice for the car.
The rear bench is where First Class is decided. Three passengers is the ceiling; two travel best, armrest folded down between them, water in the holders and a cable for either kind of phone in the console. Luggage runs to three pieces: two check-in cases and a laptop bag is the everyday load, or a single extra-large case for the traveller who packs once a month.
The plug changes nothing about the price. €90 from any Amsterdam address to Schiphol, €140 from the airport into the city, €100 an hour, €6.79 a kilometre beyond — the same list the S-Class runs on. Charging is planned into the roster by dispatch the day before, so it never becomes a stop on your way to a flight. The photograph at the top of this page is our own EQS on an Amsterdam street after dark; the two cabin pictures below it were taken in a studio rather than at a kerb.
Three on the bench at the limit; the usual booking is one guest on the right with the whole rear seat.
Three pieces in the boot: two standard check-in cases and a carry-on, or one extra-large case on its own.
Fixed from any address in Amsterdam; €140 for the run back, chauffeur waiting inside the arrivals hall.
First Class is one list for the S-Class, the EQS, the EQS SUV and the i7. Per car, taxes included, fixed the moment you confirm — choosing the electric one costs neither more nor less.
A quarter past five from a canal house is a test of tact. The EQS leaves without an engine running under anyone’s window, your flight is tracked from the moment of booking, and the €90 holds whatever the A4 is doing.
The chauffeur stands inside the hall with a name sign, a company name or nothing at all, carries the cases, and walks to a silent flagship in the nearest garage. €140 into town, with an hour of free waiting after landing.
One car, one chauffeur, the door held at each stop, at €100 an hour from a two-hour minimum. Between meetings the back of the EQS is quiet enough to rehearse the next one out loud.
Where ground transport has to be electric before finance will approve it, the EQS answers at the standard First Class rate, on a corporate account with invoicing rather than a card at the kerb.
The First Class list, per car and taxes included. Nothing is added for the plug.
A booking made within 12 hours of pickup adds 10%. Cancellation is free until an hour before pickup; child and baby seats are €5 each and go in before the car leaves the garage.
The everyday workhorse: sedans for one to three passengers.
Room for groups, families and luggage, with up to seven seats.
The pinnacle: Mercedes-Maybach, by request only.
The same electric flagship raised on a taller body, with room for a fourth bag.
First Class with the other badge: electric, three seats, identical prices.
The class page — every flagship we run and the single list they share.
Everything in the fleet with a plug, across three of the four classes.
No. First Class has one price list and the EQS sits on it beside the S-Class: €90 to Schiphol, €140 from it, €100 an hour, €6.79 a kilometre. Nothing is added for the battery and nothing is taken off. You pick the electric car for the silence, not for the invoice.
Yes, that is dispatch’s work rather than yours. Long-distance jobs are rostered with the charge and any stop planned in before we send the fixed quote, so the EQS leaves Amsterdam with the whole day covered. You are never asked to wait at a charging point on the way to a meeting.
There is no engine to talk over, which removes the sound people usually hear on the other end of the line. Tyres and wind are still there at motorway speed, but a call taken between the Zuidas and the Herengracht sounds like a call from an office, not from a car.
Put it in the booking notes. Cars are assigned by availability so we promise a class rather than a model, but a request for the electric flagship is passed to dispatch and honoured whenever the roster allows. Whatever arrives is First Class at the same fixed price.
Car, chauffeur, taxes and luggage help, door to door from any Amsterdam address, with no meter running and no card surcharge at the end. Bookings made more than twelve hours ahead avoid the 10% short-notice surcharge, and departures should be set at least three hours before the flight.