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0Report: Smart Fortwo ED will have battery rental option in US, price not yet disclosed 1365804900
Next month, Smart USA will launch the first US market electric vehicle with a separate rental program for the battery pack. Those buying or leasing the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive will have the option of renting the lithium ion battery for a monthly fee. The US base price for the Smart Fortwo ED ...
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Official: Car2go scoops up 6,000 electric car sharers in San Diego in first 100 days 1331470020
For some people, buying an electric car is a long-time dream. For others, the excitement comes simply from driving one and not having to worry about the hassles of vehicle ownership. Turns out, there are at least 6,000 such people in San Diego, CA, where Daimler's easy-access car-sharing program, ...
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Geneva: Smart ForTwo Brabus Electric Drive is a black and green upgrade 1331211120
If given the choice, we'd grab the keys to an all-electric Smart ForTwo way before its gasoline-powered sibling, if for no other reason than it would mean we wouldn't have to put up with that horrid automated manual transmission. But such faint praise isn't really fair to the Brabus Electric ...
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Report: Next-gen Smart Electric Drive delayed until fall of 2012 1324595460
Daimler is getting ready to beef up the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive for the third-gen version, but the new EV won't be arriving on schedule, according to new reports. The problem has something to do with the lithium-ion batteries. The cells are being made by Li-Tec and a Daimler spokeswoman told ...
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Car2go comes to Vienna, electric car sharing starts in San Diego 1321362180
Daimler's doing its level best to give a lot of people the chance to drive a Smart Fortwo. The ity car is the star of the company's car-sharing program called Car2go, which is expanding into Vienna this December and will, for the first time in the U.S., go all-electric in San Diego, CA this ...
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Official: Car2go bringing 300 electric vehicles to car-sharing in Amsterdam 1319659320
How much would you pay to drive an electric vehicle? How about 29 cents a minute? That's the rate that Car2go will charge for its EV car-sharing service in Amsterdam that will kick off by the end of November. For this latest expansion, Daimler will put 300 Smart EDs on the streets with the ...
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Official: 2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive priced at $21,886* in Germany, plus battery lease 1316026200
For diehard fans of the Smart Fortwo, particularly of the Electric Drive version, 2012 ushers in the third-generation of the pint-sized electric two-seater. Aside from a host of upgrades for 2012, the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive gets a very welcome price drop. Smart says the 2012 Electric Drive ...
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Smart Fortwo Electric Drive heads to Hong Kong for real-world trials 1315414500
With the city of Hong Kong battling record levels of pollution, Daimler has worked up what it thinks is a partial solution. The German automaker says it will provide an undisclosed number of trial versions of its Smart Fortwo Electric Drive to select partners there. Daimler's mates in the trial, ...
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Hertz on Demand teams with Marriot to offer electric vehicles in SF 1314652260
Hertz is turning over a new Leaf (or ten, to be exact) by expanding its Marriot Hotel rental fleet in San Francisco, CA to include electric vehicles. The rental agency is adding ten Leafs and some Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicles to its sort of Zipcar-ish Hertz on Demand fleet in San ...
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2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive hits 75 mph, whizzes to 60 in 13 seconds 1313507460
2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive – Click above for high-res image galleryThe third-generation, 2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive ditches its 16.5-kWh Tesla-engineered battery pack in favor of a 17.6-kWh unit manufactured by Deutsche ACCUmotive and, in the process, gains a much needed ... -
300 all-electric Car2Go carsharing vehicles coming to San Diego this fall 1310576160
Using 300 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicles, Daimler's Car2go carsharing program will expand to San Diego, CA this fall. The program – using standard, gasoline-powered Fortwos – already exists in Austin, TX and Vancouver, BC and in some European cities (Amsterdam, for example, ...
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Daimler will bring electric Car2go carsharing service to Amsterdam by end of 2011 1302565440
After spending some time with the Car2go program in Austin, TX recently, we came away quite impressed. We also realized that this sort of thing could very easily become the future of big city car "ownership." Now, Daimler has announced an expansion and improvement to Car2go in Amsterdam. Well, ...
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Third-gen Smart Fortwo Electric available in early 2012; will price drop from $44,387? 1299286680
The second-generation Smart Fortwo Electric Drive (ED) is a limited-edition test program model (250 units available in the U.S.) that Daimler will use to gauge consumer interest in battery-powered vehicles. Leasing the electrified ...Smart ED – Click above for high-res image gallery -
You, too, can now (probably) drive the all-electric Smart ED 1298674800
Smart ED – Click above for high-res image galleryLooking for something to do this weekend? Get out there and drive an electric car. Not only is the all-electric Smart ED program continuing as planned in the U.S. (after the Penske/Daimler fall-out which saw Daimler take control of the ... -
Smart ships single Fortwo Electric Drive to Czech Republic 1297087140
The city of Prague, which is the capital of the Czech Republic, took delivery of its first plug-in vehicle; a Smart Fortwo Electric Drive. The city intends to utilize the electric Smart as an emergency response vehicle and is expecting ...Smart ED – Click above for high-res image gallery -
Smart to announce U.S. delivery schedule of Fortwo Electric Drive soon 1295999820
Smart ED – Click above for high-res image galleryBack in June of 2010, Smart showed off the second-generation Fortwo Electric Drive (ED) model. At that time, the automaker revealed that 250 EDs would ship stateside, with the first deliveries scheduled for that October. The asking ... -
Detroit 2011: Smart president Jill Lajdziak says "We're in far better shape" for 2011 1294941960
As the photo above from this year's Detroit Auto Show clearly shows, Smart USA is about more than the ForTwo these days. This is probably a good thing, because 2010 wasn't all that great a year for the brand, saleswise. Smart USA president Jill Lajdziak and Kim McGill, Smart USA's vice president ...
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Smart's problems mean sales will likely be under 100,000 units for 2010 1283259240
Smart ED – Click above for high-res image galleryThe sad tale of Smart, especially in the U.S. market, is a prime example of the adage to "be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it." Smart has faced multiple problems, ranging from its design to its execution. On the ... -
First Drive: 2011 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive makes a lot of sense for a few people 1277423820
2011 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive – Click above for high-res image galleryAs a population, the way we approach transportation hasn't changed significantly since the aircraft first fluttered onto the scene way back in 1903. In over 100 years, we've simply been refining the recipe we know the ... -
250 Smart EDs coming to U.S. this fall with $599/month leases attached 1276199400
Smart ED – Click above for high-res image galleryThis is a post about the numbers. Here are three important figures about the second-gen all-electric Smart ED that was on display in New York City yesterday: 250 units are coming to the U.S. starting in October 2010 Leases will be ...

