Opinion / Mercedes is bringing sexy back with its electric EQS, the first of a more sustainable range to rival Tesla’s Model S and the Porsche Taycan

This article is part of Style’s Luxury Column.

A little more than two years ago, I visited the Mercedes-Benz stands at two of the world’s most important car shows: Geneva and Seoul. In Geneva, I recall a stand dedicated to electro mobility, including a bar with wireless charging stations. The message: Mercedes goes electric. The catch: none of the cars shown were fully electric, or if they were, they were not for sale. Instead, as Swiss law demands, the petrol-driven cars on the stand had to be classified according to their fuel consumption and emissions.