With “Concept EQ”, Mercedes-Benz is showing that the electric car will soon be moving into the fast lane. The concept vehicle which has the looks of a sporty new SUV Coupé provides an outlook into a new generation of battery-powered vehicles. The new electro-look is shaped by a smooth transition from the glowing black bonnet across the windscreen to the darkly tinted panoramic roof – an exciting contrast to its alubeam silver paintwork. The joints in the vehicle body are hardly noticeable and windscreen wipers hidden; cameras are installed rather than outside mirrors, and the car does not have the traditional door handles – all elements designed to emphasise its sleek, dynamic silhouette. The Mercedes-Benz Concept EQ stands for the future of e-mobility. The photographer Richard Thompson III captures the essence of the concept car in a futuristic vision. Being aesthetically influenced by surrealist painters of the past and conceptually drawing on the work of Jean Baudrillard, R