is ready to put range anxiety in the rearview mirror.

The German luxury marque just revealed that an EQS prototype equipped with a solid-state battery completed a 749-mile drive on a single charge. Even more impressive, at the end of the journey, the EV still had range to spare.

Anyone familiar with EVs knows that range is just as important a performance indicator as horsepower. American drivers , even if most of us don’t clock hundreds of miles on our daily commute. Regardless, consumers worry about their EV running out of power without a charger in sight, something which may be related to the U.S.’s charging infrastructure .

Mercedes-Benz wants to allay these concerns by using more efficient solid-state battery technology that will increase range without making its already heavy EVs e

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