All-Electric Smart EV due in 2010 - Plus Video Interview
July 26, 2008 by admin
According to Dieter Zetsche, a fully electric ForTwo will be on sale to the public beginning in 2010. Smart currently has an electric version of its little ForTwo in Europe known as the Smart ed. This uses a sodium-nickel-chloride (Zebra) battery, the 41 horse electric motor has plenty of power to move the vehicle around, and urban performance is said to be improved over the standard model. So far, the electric Smart has only been for testing.
In an interview published Saturday in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Zetsche said the pricing of the vehicle would depend on whether the carmaker decided to sell or lease the batteries.
So far, no firm pricing information has been provided, though Dr. Z says he doesn’t believe consumers would be willing to pay a large surcharge. The total cost of the Smart EV would also depend on whether the car maker chooses to sell the batteries with the car or lease them separately.
[Source: Sustainable Business]
During EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium, Matt Kelly of PodTech spoke with Pitt Moos, Product Manager for the Smart EV, a prototype and research electric vehicle being developed by http://www.daimler.com/ Daimler. Currently 100 of them are being built and delivered to consumers in London, England as part of a four year project. See the Video below
http://www.smart.com/-snm-0164329964-…
Comments
Feel free to leave a comment...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!