The Mercedes-Benz G580e – Electric Excellence and Still a Proper G

If I have two complaints about the 2025 Mercedes-Benz G580e, it’s that Mercedes ships it with lame tires and that I cannot afford one. Those tires are fixable. If I could also fix my bank account, I’d be a happy person—smiling rather broadly from behind the wheel of one of these wonderful things.

When you think about which platforms would work well as an electric vehicle, the G-Class is one that makes sense. It’s already heavy. Proper and instant torque delivery is great on an off-road vehicle. And the quietness you experience when underway is something any Mercedes owner hopes to have in their machine.

Mercedes-Benz has pulled off the EV addition to the lineup wonderfully. The G580e boasts 579 horsepower and 859 lb-ft of torque. It does this via a quad-motor setup, with each motor having its own transmission. No more need for a triple-locker setup, but you can still access low range. In fact, you can also pull off tank turns, or what Mercedes-Benz calls the G Turn.

It’s a neat little party trick and potentially useful in certain situations. I just hope we don’t see a legion of fresh G owners ripping up random trails. There’s another great turning truck where you can massively reduce the turning radius to get around particularly tight bends in a trail.

Plopped into the cozy driver’s seat, it feels like a regular G-Class. Albeit one with instant torque at your disposal. On the road, it’s as refined and brilliant as ever. Off the pavement, it’s exactly what I want a G-Class to be; sure-footed and eager to scramble up and down all sorts of trails.

The range could be better. Per the EPA, it’s rated to return 239 miles. I’d also like to see the max charging speed rise over 200kW and the onboard charger jump up to an 11.2-kW setup instead of the 9.6. But if you can swing the nearly $200,000 (as-tested, $160k+ to start) price tag, then I’m pretty sure you have something else in the garage you can use when you need to charge up the G.