Meet the 860kW Electric 2026 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe 

Mercedes-AMG has gone electric, and not in the apologetic, cardigan-over-the-shoulders way some brands have approached the whole battery business. The new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe is a full-fat Affalterbach brute with three motors, up to 860kW, and enough electronic muscle to make a petrolhead clutch his V8 like a Victorian widow clutching pearls at a drag brunch.

This is AMG’s first model on the dedicated AMG.EA electric architecture, which sounds like a software update but is really the platform for Mercedes’ next round of absurdly quick, deeply expensive performance EVs. You can read the polished corporate material at Mercedes-AMG, but the useful bit is simple: AMG is not trying to make a quiet commuter pod. It is trying to build a four-door electric super-saloon that can do repeated launches without fainting into the shrubbery.

Two versions arrive at launch: GT 55 4-Door Coupe and GT 63 4-Door Coupe. Both use three axial flux motors, one at the front and two at the rear. The GT 55 makes 600kW and 1,800Nm. The GT 63 turns the silliness up to 860kW and 2,000Nm when AMG Launch Control is doing its party trick.

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The new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV moves AMG into a dedicated electric performance era.

The rear cabin keeps the four-door GT brief alive, with individual rear seating and AMG detailing.

Front storage adds a useful touch to the all-electric AMG GT 4-Door Coupe.

The GT 4-Door Coupe EV keeps a practical boot beneath the long fastback shape.

The AMG cockpit combines digital displays, drive mode controls, and a performance steering wheel.

The front cabin keeps AMG theatre with rotary controls, wide screens, and carbon-look trim.

The new electric AMG GT 4-Door Coupe uses a long, low fastback profile.

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That gives the GT 63 a 0-100km/h claim as low as 2.1 seconds with rollout, or 2.4 seconds without the drag-strip flattery. Zero to 200km/h takes 6.4 seconds with rollout, and top speed is 300km/h with the optional AMG Driver’s Package. The GT 55 is hardly the vicar’s shopping trolley either, with 0-100km/h in 2.8 seconds and 0-200km/h in 9.0 seconds.

The cleverness sits in the motors. Axial flux motors are flatter and lighter than conventional radial flux motors, with the magnetic field running parallel to the motor’s axis rather than radiating outward. Mercedes-AMG says that means higher continuous power and torque from a smaller unit. More importantly for the sort of person who treats launch control as a personality trait, AMG says the performance can be repeated, not just flashed once for a brochure number before the battery asks for a lie down.

Two of those motors live on the rear axle, packaged with compact planetary gearboxes and silicon carbide inverters. The front motor can disconnect when it is not needed, reducing drag and saving energy until the driver demands another dollop of violence. It is the sort of engineering that makes sense only when the brief says: “make it obscenely quick, then make it do it again.”

The battery is just as serious. It is an 800-volt pack with 106kWh net capacity and directly cooled cylindrical NCMA cells. There are 2,660 cells in total, each sitting in a laser-welded aluminium module and cooled by a non-conductive oil that flows around every cell. That is AMG showing its homework. Heat kills repeat performance, and AMG has built a cooling system that sounds more like a racing paddock solution than a shopping-centre charging bay afterthought.

Charging is where the numbers get faintly deranged. With the optional AMG Performance Charger, the GT 4-Door Coupe can take more than 600kW DC, if you can find a charger butch enough to supply it. Mercedes-AMG claims more than 460km of WLTP range can be added in 10 minutes, while the quoted range sits between 596km and 700km depending on model and equipment. It also supports major global charging standards, including CCS2, CCS1, GB/T, CHAdeMO, and NACS, which is rather more accommodating than some humans I know.

The car itself has avoided the melted-soap look that haunts too many EVs, though only just. The rear is rather tasty, with AMG’s six round tail lights and a broad haunch that gives the thing presence. The side view is long, low, and slippery. The nose is the difficult bit, with illuminated vertical grille strakes and a dark mask that may divide the table. Still, it looks like an AMG, not a tech start-up’s idea of what rich people admire.

Inside, AMG has kept the cabin theatrical. There is a wide digital display arrangement, AMG drive mode controls, a proper performance steering wheel, and enough glossy carbon-look trim to make fingerprints a full-time occupation. The rear seats look more like a fast lounge than a punishment cell, which matters in a four-door car. The boot and front storage also give it a useful side, although anyone pretending this is a sensible family buy needs a small lie down and perhaps a glass of water.

The most pleasing cabin detail is that AMG has resisted making the whole thing look like a dentist’s waiting room with a tablet glued to it. There are screens, naturally, because modern cars are now rolling login portals, but the centre console still has the showy rotary AMG controls and physical theatre buyers expect at this end of the market. If you are spending house-deposit money, a little drama is not unreasonable.

Chassis hardware is suitably over-catered. AMG ACTIVE RIDE CONTROL uses semi-active roll stabilisation, while active aerodynamics adjust the car’s downforce and drag behaviour. There is rear-axle steering, active air control, active underbody aero, and a movable rear spoiler. In plain English, AMG has thrown every available trick at making a heavy electric performance car feel less like a grand piano launched from a trebuchet.

There is also an artificial V8 experience. That will upset purists, delight theatre kids, and amuse everyone else. AMG says the sound and driving feel are customisable, which is probably wise, because fake engine noise can be magnificent or as welcome as a Bluetooth speaker on a bushwalk. We shall reserve judgement until someone lets us prod the buttons.

Australian timing and pricing have not been nailed down in the supplied material. Mercedes-AMG says ordering starts in the coming days, with pricing based on comparable predecessor vehicles. For Australia, that points at serious money. The outgoing AMG GT 63 S E Performance 4-Door sat around the $409,600 mark before on-road costs, and this new GT 63 EV looks unlikely to become a discount aisle special.

The short version is this: AMG has built an electric GT that seems designed to answer the Porsche Taycan, Audi e-tron GT, and anyone who thought EVs had gone a bit beige. It is excessive, technical, fast, and faintly ridiculous. In other words, it might be the first electric AMG that behaves like it was raised properly in Affalterbach, then sent to finishing school with a hip flask.

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Written by Alan Zurvas

Alan Zurvas is the founder and editor of Gay Car Boys, Australia's leading LGBTQI+ automotive publication. Before launching GCB in 2008, Alan's automotive writing was published in SameSame.com.au and the Star Observer. With over 16 years of hands-on car reviewing experience, Alan brings an honest, irreverent voice to every review — championing value and innovation over brand loyalty.