{"id":348260,"date":"2026-03-10T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/world-premiere-of-the-mercedes-vle-how-the-electric-van-aims-to-escape-its-niche\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:31:48","slug":"world-premiere-of-the-mercedes-vle-how-the-electric-van-aims-to-escape-its-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/world-premiere-of-the-mercedes-vle-how-the-electric-van-aims-to-escape-its-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"World premiere of the Mercedes VLE: How the electric van aims to escape its niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/media\/2026\/03\/mercedes-benz-vle-400-amg-line-2026-4-1400x933.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWith the VLE, Mercedes-Benz Vans is launching the successor to the EQV while simultaneously debuting its new electric van platform, VAN.EA. The model features an 800-volt architecture, faster charging and extended range \u2013 all aimed at attracting more private customers to electric vans. We take a closer look at the new platform and the variants planned for launch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/03\/10\/world-premiere-of-the-mercedes-vle-how-the-electric-van-aims-to-escape-its-niche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Electrive-Product-Logo.svg&#8221; alt=&#8221;electrive.com&#8221;&gt;With the VLE, Mercedes-Benz Vans is launching the successor to the EQV while simultaneously debuting its new electric van platform, VAN.EA. The model features an 800-volt architecture, faster charging and extended range \u2013 all aimed at attracting more private customers to electric vans. We take a closer look at the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/world-premiere-of-the-mercedes-vle-how-the-electric-van-aims-to-escape-its-niche\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348269,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260\/revisions\/348269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}