E class may refer to:

Automobiles

Mercedes-Benz E-Class The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a range of executive cars manufactured by German automaker Mercedes-Benz in various engine and body configurations. Produced since 1953, the E-Class falls midrange in the Mercedes line-up, and has been marketed world ...

, a series of automobiles built by Mercedes-Benz *

Chrysler E-Class The Chrysler E-Class was a mid-size car produced by Chrysler. Introduced in 1983 on a stretched version of the Chrysler K platform, the E-Class was a less expensive, less equipped version of the similar 1983 New Yorker. History The Chrysler E-C ...

, a mid-sized car produced between 1983 and 1984 *

E-segment The E-segment is the 5th category of the European segments for passenger cars, synonymous with the term executive car. E-Segment is a niche in Europe (2-3% penetration in 2010s). As of 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, E-segment sales account for 2.7 ...

, a European vehicle size class

Ships

British E-class submarine The British E-class submarines started out as improved versions of the British D-class submarine. The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War I as the backbone of the submarine fleet. The last surviving E class submarines we ...

, submarines of the Royal Navy that served in World War I *

United States E-class submarine The E-class submarines were a class of two United States Navy submarines, built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from the Electric Boat Company. They were used as coastal and harbor defense sub ...

, submarines of the United States Navy *

E-class cruiser The ''Emerald'' class or E class was a class of two light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. Following the ''Cavendish'' class, three ships of a new class were ordered in March 1918, towards the end of World War I, designed to emphasise high s ...

, British Royal Navy cruisers in service during World War II * E-class destroyer, British Royal Navy destroyers in service during World War II * ''E''-class lifeboat, British lifeboats *

Mærsk E-class container ship The E class comprises eight 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container ships. Each sister ship bears a name beginning with the letter "E". Until 2012, they were the largest container ship ever constructed, and are among the longest ships ...

, built between 2006 and 2008

Rail vehicles

New Zealand

NZR E class (1872) The NZR E class of Double Fairlie steam locomotives were two different types of Fairlie steam locomotives, used on New Zealand's railway network. They were the first classes to take that designation, followed by the E class Mallet compound ...

, Double Fairlie locomotive *

NZR E class (1906) The New Zealand E class locomotive comprised a single Mallet steam locomotive operated by New Zealand Railways (NZR) from 1906 until 1917. Classified as E 66 and nicknamed Pearson's Dream after its designer, it was an experimental Mallet locomot ...

, Mallet locomotive *

New Zealand E class locomotive (1922) The New Zealand E class battery-electric locomotive represented the third unique type of locomotive class to be given the E classification in New Zealand. The first was the E class of nine Double Fairlie steam locomotives of 1872-75; the second ...

, battery-electric locomotive

Ireland

* CIÉ E401 class, diesel shunting locomotive * CIÉ E421 class, diesel shunting locomotive

UK

SECR E class The SECR E class was a class of 4-4-0 tender locomotives designed by Harry Wainwright for express passenger trains on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. It was a larger version of the D class incorporating a Belpaire firebox Overview Fol ...

, steam locomotives

Australia

MRWA E class The MRWA E class was a single member class of diesel-hydraulic shunting (switching) locomotive built by Commonwealth Engineering, Bassendean, Western Australia, for the Midland Railway of Western Australia (MRWA) in 1957. The locomotive was la ...

, diesel shunting locomotive *

Victorian Railways E class The E class was a class of suburban tank steam locomotive that ran on Australia's Victorian Railways (VR). History The pattern locomotive, named "Tasmania", was built by Kitson & Co of Leeds, England in 1888, and was a typical British tank en ...

, steam locomotives *

Victorian Railways E class (electric) The Victorian Railways E class was a class of electric locomotive that ran on the Victorian Railways from 1923 until 1984. Introduced shortly after the electrification of the suburban rail system in Melbourne, Australia, and based on the same ele ...

WAGR E class The WAGR E class were a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives built for the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) by English manufacturers Nasmyth, Wilson & Co, Vulcan Foundry and North British Locomotive Company, from 1902. The locomotive ...

, 4-6-2 steam locomotives *

WAGR E class (1879) The WAGR E class was a two-member class of 2-4-4-2T double-Fairlie locomotives operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1881 and 1892. History The E class engines were built by Avonside Engine Co, Bristol in 1879 f ...

, 2-4-4-2T double-Fairlie locomotives *

E-class Melbourne tram The E-class trams are three-section, four-bogie articulated trams that were first introduced to the Melbourne tram network in 2013, built at the Dandenong works of Bombardier Transportation (later Alstom) with the propulsion systems and bogies ...

Sydney E-Class Tram The E-class trams were a class of single bogie (four-wheel) single-ended cross-bench design trams operated on the Sydney tram network. They always operated in permanently-coupled pairs because they were fitted-out electrically as if the pair was ...

Other uses

E-class blimp The E class of US Navy blimps comprised a single airship, built during World War I by Goodyear as one of a group of three small blimps offered to the US government. Two were purchased for the US Navy and one for the US Army. The Navy blimps were ...

, United States Navy blimp