The Telegraph
What really happens when two electric cars collide
There’s a piece of plastic on my desk as I write this. Cracked and splintered, it’s about an inch long, with flaking matt-orange paint on one side. Up until lunchtime yesterday it was part of a pristine, £150,000 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV; a 5.125-metre (16ft 10ins) long, 2.8-ton battery-electric luxury car. Or it might equally well have been part of a new, £50,000 Mercedes-Benz EQA, a 4.46-metre long, 2.1-ton battery-electric family SUV. They are painted orange because it has the least amount of re
