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Michael Mandic. Mercedes-Benz EQE 350 4-matic. Personal view and experience
Mercedes-Benz Electric Vehicle EQE 350 4-matic
It is more convenient (easier) for a person to think in tangible and precise categories. Simplicity allows you not to waste precious time. Accuracy gives confidence in the demanded result. "Human laziness is, in fact, the engine of progress". The easier a product or a service are to use, the more popular they are.
But!
Let's imagine a situation.
One of the EV (Mercedes-Benz Electric Vehicle) units, freshly produced, bright and shiny, still smelling of new materials, is being delivered to a happy buyer who pre-ordered it in the now distant January of 2022, to Ukraine. To a some city of Toretsk. (Donetsk region of Ukraine. Population: 32,027 people according to the 2020 census. Area occupied: 62 km²).
But it’s the terrible year of 2024 out there.
🥺2024. Toretsk after the arrival of the "liberators". The city is simply wiped off the face of the earth
There is a war in the country. The ruzzian fascists are almost wiping Toretsk off the face of the Earth.
At that time, some Hujlo PTN-PNH ruled ruzzia. Probably, at that time it was normal for a ruler to receive such a prefix to his name. But, judging by the fact that he was the only one to receive such an honor and almost nothing is known about him or it was deliberately erased from the annals of history, he received it for outstanding stupidity, greed and cruelty.
It is 2024.
For various reasons, the car can no longer be used.
The owner of the EV, from whom Her Majesty Luck did not turn away, somehow miraculously hides the car in an empty garage. The garage is covered by a fallen building. By a lucky chance, no one knows about it.
Those who knew about this managed to leave or... perished...
A note about a stored car is packed in a bottle and sent on a voyage down a river, which carried it out to the ocean, to the other end of the world. The owner goes off to war and - war is war - he goes, and goes further, and further away from the EV... He has no time for that. At all.
The summer during the war is unusually hot and the ground heats up to 80 degrees Celsius. The car quietly groans from the heat, stuffiness and fumes. The battery(s) accumulate heat energy in all possible containers. Like camel(s) do in their humps.
Winter, on the contrary, is like winter. The ground freezes several meters down. At start the car is covered with a thin layer of frost. Then - with a thicker one. The sensors trigger from time to time, the heating turns on and the room rationally warms up to an acceptable temperature for storage.
Another part of the world.
One day a light-hearted happy girl is walking along the ocean shore on the soft, wet sand, and finds a bottle. At first, she passes it by indifferently. But something unusual still interests her and she returns to the bottle, which is sticking out of the sand.
Through the green glass, under the sunbeams, a folded piece of white paper is visible, neatly tied with a string.
The girl digs up the bottle, runs into the house on the shore and on the veranda, in an old chest of drawers, is hurriedly looking for a knife.
Having found it, she carefully tries to open the cork.
She fails and calls her grandfather.
The grandfather - quite youthful-looking man, not even an old man, but with a small gray beard - examines the bottle, smiles, goes inside the house, finds a corkscrew and takes out the cork with it.
They unfold the note. The paper, oddly enough, is very well preserved.
At first, it is impossible to understand anything.
Some scribbles. The letters are not Latin.
A regular detector-translator is needed to recognize the symbols.
Know-it-all Google 2 assumes this is the Ukrainian language. The Ukrainian is known to many, but it is some very old dialect.
The note says that in one of the cities of the state of Ukraine, about 400 years ago, a Mercedes-Benz EV was parked in an underground garage. The coordinates are given.
The excitement of discovery takes over the girl so much that she persuades, persuades and, finally, convinces her grandfather to fly to this unknown distant country.
The spacecraft easily transfers them to the European part of the continent.
Continuation option #1. Pessimistic.
They fly for a long time on several energy planes 3 and land not far from unclear destroyed buildings.
This is the alienation zone.
The neighboring fascist ruzzia, which committed this crime against Humanity, hasn’t existed for a long time, but no one wanted to settle here.
The cursed land, which has taken so much grief that no normal person could survive in this hell of negative energy for even a year.
The positioning sensor, beeping, reports they have arrived at the place.
Mountains of dusty bricks and fragments of ancient concrete walls. No one builds like this anymore.
This is all interesting, but only from the point of view of history and those who are interested in it.
Continuation option #2. Optimistic.
They fly for a long time on several energy planes 3 and land in a wonderful and cool park area of the new microdistrict.
The neighboring fascist ruzzia hasn’t existed for a long time, which shamefully rolled back with its expansionist projects and, after the natural collapse of the economy, fell apart into many specific concentration camps which tried to devour each other.
The alienation zone is 2.5 thousand kilometers from here.
The positioning sensor, beeping, reports they have arrived at the place.
They have to spend time getting permission to conduct excavations.
This is all interesting, but only from the point of view of history and those who are interested in it.
Special equipment has to be ordered: construction and archaeological robots to excavate the site of the probable find. No one believes there is anything here, but the girl still hopes.
Removing layer after layer is done with all precautions, because everyone understands that the underground vaults can begin to self-destruct and collapse at any moment.
Finally, the slab, which is presumably the upper ceiling of the garage, is cleared.
The AI council, having analyzed various scenarios and collected artifact samples, suggests working further and finding the entrance – the garage door.
A couple of days later, the gate is found and dug up.
The gate has retained a layer of paint, which begins to fade very quickly when exposed to air.
Having sawed through the antediluvian iron locks, they finally opened the gate.
In the middle of the garage stands an EV. Covered in a thin shiny layer of dust.
When the researchers approached it, something incredible happened.
The EV started flashing various lights and turned on the engine.
Carefully opening the driver's door, the girl got into the car. A feeling of antiquity and reliability. It's more or less understandable how to drive.
A sporty vintage steering wheel, decorated with nappa leather...
A central display made of organic light-emitting diodes... How unusual it all is... Energy planes have long been controlled by thought...
A user manual was found in the glove compartment. In it, the manufacturer thanked for purchasing the car. It turns out that it was made in Bremen... There are no factories in modern Bremen. There is a solid green area there, and all the factories have long been moved to the Earth orbit.
Amazing. No matter how many years pass, the car is ready for use. Engineers of the past dreamed of the possibility of preserving their invention for an indefinite period.
True, now it will be difficult to fill it up, because no one will find such outdated connectors for charging batteries.
The girl gathered her courage, the steering wheel fits comfortably in her hands and, pressing the accelerator pedal, slowly moved out of the garage. She drove up the path ... and the car went out. The charge ran out. All the energy went into waking up and leaving ...
Now all that remains is to move it to the museum. To an eternal stand.
In the past, engineers fought for every kilometer traveled, and not for the ability to receive energy from the environment and adapt to changing road conditions.
These are two completely different ideas for technology development strategy.
EV has not fallen apart for so many centuries. And even surprised. Disappointed a little.
But it turned on — that's an achievement too!
"Love of invention will never end." — Carl Benz
1 Based on Michael Mandic. Mercedes-Benz AG EQE 350 4-matic. Personal view and experience (copy of article here).
2 Hopefully Google will still be around by then.
3 A type of personal means of transportation on a magnetic resonance cushion at an altitude of up to 1 km above the Earth, very similar in shape to a drop of water.
2 Hopefully Google will still be around by then.
3 A type of personal means of transportation on a magnetic resonance cushion at an altitude of up to 1 km above the Earth, very similar in shape to a drop of water.
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