Electric Vehicle

Reports: Mercedes Stops Taking Most EV Orders in U.S.

The Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV seen from a rear quarter angle
  • Mercedes-Benz has reportedly stopped taking orders for new EQE, EQS models in the U.S.
  • It may continue to build them here for export

Mercedes-Benz isn’t getting out of the electric vehicle (EV) game. However, it is dialing back its U.S. EV plans more dramatically than any other automaker, according to a new report.

CarScoops reports that the company has “stopped taking orders for all four EQE and EQS cars and SUVs.” The move includes the EQE Sedan, EQE SUV, EQS Sedan, and EQS SUV.

The Alabama plant that builds the two SUVs will reportedly “continue to build them for other markets.”

A company spokesperson told The Drive, “Dealers were informed we are putting on hold U.S. order banks for all variants” of the four vehicles.

While dealers can’t order more, they ended June with plenty of the EQE models in stock, should you be interested in buying one. Both EQS models are harder to find on dealer lots but should remain available for a few weeks.

They’ll see dramatic price cuts, too. The company has slashed prices by as much as $15,000 on the remaining models. The move comes as a newly passed law will phase out the federal government’s $7,500 EV tax credit at the end of September.

Some Mercedes EVs Still Planned

  • Four models are gone, but a next-generation lineup on a new platform may still come

A Mercedes spokesperson tells us that the brand’s other current EV, the EQB, “has reached the end of its lifecycle as planned and therefore will not be offered in the U.S. or Canada after model year 2025.” It has sold better than the brand’s other electric models in recent months, but still trails most gas-powered Mercedes models in sales.

The move may not mean Mercedes is done with EVs in the U.S. CarScoops notes, “The company’s all-new CLA electric sedan comes to America later in 2025 and will be followed within the next couple of years by a pair of SUVs built around the same MMA platform.”