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Smart fortwo
electric drive - Zero-emission
driving pleasure for everyone:
the new smart fortwo electric
drive will soon be available
worldwide.
Zero-emission motoring with even
more driving fun - the third
generation smart fortwo electric
drive will be available from the
spring of 2012. In total a
five-figure number of vehicles
will roll off the production
line in Hambach, France.
Following the huge success of
the second generation, electric
mobility will then become
accessible to anyone interested
in more than 30 markets
worldwide. In the development of
the new generation smart
benefited from extensive
experience and customer feedback
gathered worldwide over the past
years. Driven by a battery
supplied by Deutsche Accumotive
for the first time the 55 kW
electric motor passes the 120
km/h mark. From 0 to 100 km/h in
less than 13 seconds - even
driving on urban motorways
becomes enjoyable. The 17.6 kWh
battery enables the lively city
car to travel around 140
kilometres in city traffic
without producing any local
emissions.
Ever since 1998 the smart has
been revolutionising urban
mobility like no vehicle before
it. Compact, agile,
environmentally friendly and
stylish - it has evolved from a
practical small car to a
lifestyle product and has long
become a familiar sight on the
roads of cities around the
world.
With the start of the first
electrically driven test fleet
in 2007 in London smart also
took on a pioneering role in the
area of electric mobility when
100 smart fortwo electric drives
took to the roads of the British
capital - with great success.
Today the vehicle is a
trendsetter and a synonym for
forward-looking
battery-electric-driven urban
mobility of the future.
One of the largest electric
fleets worldwide
With the introduction of the
second generation in 2009 the
smart fortwo electric drive was
ready to take to the roads. The
electrically driven
avant-gardiste from Stuttgart
was introduced in 18 markets.
The objective of the second
generation was to gather as much
experience as possible about how
customers use and charge
electric vehicles. The huge
demand exceeded all
expectations. Instead of the
planned 1000 vehicles more than
2000 smart fortwo electric
drives are being produced in
Hambach. This means that smart
has one of the largest fleets of
electrically driven vehicles on
the roads worldwide and a trove
of customer experience and
wishes that have been input in
the third generation smart
fortwo electric drive.
Even better in the third
generation With total production
amounting to a five-figure
number, from the spring of 2012
the further developed smart
fortwo electric drive will start
winning wide-ranging buyers in
more than 30 countries for an
innovative and forward-looking
drive concept.
The third generation smart
fortwo electric drive features a
55 kW magneto-electric motor -
the first product from the EM-motive
joint venture founded together
with Bosch - which ensures that
it is as agile and lively as
ever. With torque of 130 Newton
metres it accelerates powerfully
and immediately from 0 to 60
km/h in 5 seconds and thanks to
better acceleration in the
higher speed range it can sprint
from 0 to 100 km/h in less than
13 seconds as it has much more
tractive power than its
predecessor. This makes for
speedy driving and overtaking.
The battery-electric two-seater
smart fortwo now also has a
higher top speed of more than
120 km/h, putting it on a par
with the combustion-engined
smart.
For the greater freedom of quick
charging it is possible to
optionally equip the vehicle
with a quick-charging function.
The 22 kW on-board charger
enables a completely empty
battery to be fully charged in
less than an hour. A power cable
is needed for this which is used
to connect the vehicle to a
public quick-charging station or
a wallbox at home or work.
A comparison of the two smart
fortwo electric drive
generations
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