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  • 2012 Smart For-Us Concept

    It's not easy being small. You go unnoticed in crowds and have to ask taller people to reach objects on high shelves for you. With cars though it's not always a bad thing, or at least that's what Smart will tell you. When your business is making small cars, you extol the virtues inherent in lack of size, such as ease of parking, low running costs and squeezing through tight gaps. Those aren't virtues that can be levelled at your average pick-up truck, so Smart is having a crack at those too with the Smart For-Us concept due at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. It may be longer than your average...

  • Car2Go Smart ForTwo Electric Drive in San Diego
    San Diego: Car2Go's Choice For First All-Electric Car Share Service

    The City of San Diego has become the first city in North America to offer an all-electric car sharing network, thanks to Car2Go. A fleet of more than 300 all-electric Smart ForTwo Electric Drives were present at the November 18 launch event. A subsiduary of Daimler North America Corporation, the...

  • 2012 Hyundai Veloster  -  First Drive
    Cheap Fuel Efficiency: Ten 40 MPG Cars For Under $20,000

    For many people, the purchase of a fuel efficient car is usually made to save money on driving, as the cost of being a car owner rises further and further. That being the case, why buy an expensive car in the first place, potentially taking years longer to pay off the fuel savings? The good news is...

  • 2011 Smart Fortwo
    Mercedes-Benz Hoping To Revive Smart Brand With TV Ads

    Mercedes Benz is hoping a targeted television advertising campaign, accompanied by low-interest financing, is all it will need to reignite U.S. interest in the Smart brand.

  • 2011 Smart forvision concept
    Smart Forvision Electric Car Concept: Frankfurt Live Photos

    While Smart used the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show to release its new, upgraded Fortwo Electric Drive and the production Smart eBike, the new Forvision concept previewed a few weeks ago gives us an idea what the next generation Fortwo might look like. Still a Smart... Importantly, the Forvision is...

  • 2012 smart fortwo electric drive, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: Frankfurt Auto Show

    The problems with the old Smart Fortwo Electric Drive were fairly easy to work out. It was too slow, had only an average range, took too long to charge and it was too expensive - even when leasing. Smart has taken the car back to the drawing board and fixed all these issues - and given the car a...

  • 2011 Volkswagen Nils single-seat electric car concept

    We thought the 2011 Geneva Motor Show was one of the best ever for electric cars and green vehicles, but the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, starting in less than a week, is shaping up to be even better. We'll be covering the show in-depth next week, but in the meantime we've rounded up all the electric cars you can expect to see at the show. Concept Vehicles Audi A2 Concept Audi's original A2 was a high-tech, aluminum-bodied subcompact launched in 1999. Audi's new A2 is a high-tech, electric-powered subcompact, not yet confirmed for release. It's designed to show off the latest in Audi's LED and...

  • 2011 Smart Fortwo
    Is Second Time The Charm For Smart's ForTwo In U.S. Market?

    The 2011 Smart ForTwo minicar: Cramped, noisy, slow and unsafe, right? If you answered yes to all those then the new team running Smart USA for Daimler AG is banking on a new educational advertising campaign drawing you in. Smart USA thinks the slide in popularity of the model is down to what the...

  • Hertz electric-car rental press event, New York City, September 2010
    Hertz, Marriott Bring Electric Cars And Hotels Together In San Francisco

    Popular airport rental car firm Hertz has been working alongside Hotel chain Marriott for 30 years to unite weary travelers with a set of wheels while they’re away from home -- but now visitors to San Francisco can opt to rent an electric car from the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront...

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    Dear Floridians: Golf Carts Are NOT Electric Cars

    Electric car enthusiasts have struggled for years with "golf cart" jibes and only recently with cars like the 2011 Tesla Roadster and 2012 Nissan Leaf has the "ugly and slow" image started to disappear. In Florida, there's a different problem - people who believe their golf carts are actual cars...

  • 2012 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive
    2012 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Gets More Smart, Gains Speed

    The 2011 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive may be the smallest, most compact highway-capable electric car on the market, but its pathetic top speed, sluggish acceleration, limited range and expensive price tag haven’t gained it many fans. But that may all change in a little under a month as...

  • Suzuki Wagon R, Japan's highest selling vehicle
    Half Of Japan Now Drives High MPG, Low Power Kei Minicars

    If there's one thing that illustrates the culture difference between the United States and Japan better than anything else, it's the cars everyone drives. In the U.S, the Ford F-Series truck has dominated the sales charts for quarter of a century. The smallest engine available is a 3.5-liter...

  • 2011 Audi Urban Concept

    Yesterday we brought you news of a highly camouflaged all-electric minicar spotted in the center of Berlin and wearing the unmistakable linked ring Audi badge. At the time, we postulated that the tiny electric runabout was probably Audi’s e-tron city concept car. Now Audi has confirmed that we were right, with an official press release on what it simply refers to as an urban concept, with massive 21 inch narrow wheels and LED lit fenders all round. Although we were right about the number of seats in the urban concept, our guesses about seating position weren’t. Watching videos of...

  • car2go Smart ForTwo Electric Drive at Windansea Beach La Jolla CA
    San Diego Gets Smart, Hosts 100% Electric Car Sharing Scheme

    City car-sharing schemes have become more popular in recent years as the cost of owning a car rockets, but until now they’ve focused on traditional gasoline-engined cars. Not any more. The City of San Diego has just become the first North American city to host a carsharing scheme made up...

  • Dieter Zetsche
    Daimler CEO: 1 Million Electric Cars in Germany by 2020? Not Likely

    It may only be two weeks since Germany’s Chancellor Merkel announced that her government would help bring 1 million plug-in vehicles to the roads of Germany by 2020 but her bold goal is already being dismissed as impossible by the very automakers her Government is planning to help. Enter...

  • 2011 Smart Fortwo
    Small Cars Dominate TheCarConnection.com’s Efficient Convertible List

    With the rising gas prices it may seem like you have to give up things in order to save money at the pump. You can combine trips to save fuel, keep your tires inflated properly, make sure your car is tuned up and drive to maximize your mpgs. With the latest top of top list from TheCarConnection.com...

  • Smart ForTwo Electric Drive at Urban Stage, London
    2011 Smart Electric Drive On The Streets Of London: Driven

    What makes the perfect city car? Compact dimensions are a good place to start, so you can sneak into small parking spaces on a crowded street and squeeze through gaps that would leave other traffic impatiently waiting. Nippy acceleration is useful too, so you aren't left lagging at the lights...

  • 2011 Wheego Whip LiFe at 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show
    Tough To Be Wheego: Germany Crushes Electric Car From 'Hand-To-Mouth' Startup

    It's hard to start a car company. Really, really, really, really, really hard. Which is why little Wheego Electric Cars is having a tough time of it at the moment. Last week, CEO Mike McQuary told industry trade journal Automotive News that the company was "living hand-to-mouth" and that its first...

  • Smart ForTwo ED

    You’d be forgiven for thinking that German automaker Daimler was trying to build its own little electric car empire. Not only does it have active electric car projects running with Nissan-Renault, BYD and Tesla, but it has now announced intent to work on a project with the automotive arm of electronics firm Bosch. In a deal which is anticipated to be concluded in the first half of 2011, both firms will work together to develop a new generation of electric motors which will then be used in forthcoming Mercedes-Benz and Smart electric vehicles from 2012. With a full-scale production...

  • Hertz electric vehicle rental
    Renting an Electric Car: When Is It Smart, When Is It Dumb?

    One way for potential buyers to get familiar with electric cars is to rent one. Several rental companies, among them Enterprise, have announced plans to rent 2011 Nissan Leaf and other electric models at selected locations. Renting an electric car lets you spend far more time in one than the...

  • 2011 Wheego Whip LiFe at 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show
    Wheego Electric Vehicle Featured At 2011 Denver Auto Show

    In the electric car realm there are many players, a lot of them small. So if we asked you if you had heard of a Wheego, you wouldn’t be alone if your answer was no. That is the fun of auto shows and in the Rocky Mountain region, the 2011 Denver Auto Show is living up to the reputation of...

  • 2011 Smart electric drive
    Want An Electric Car? Be Quick, Get Smart With ForTwo EV

    The 2011 Nissan Leaf has a waiting list. So does the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, and as for the Tesla Roadster, well, it's probably too expensive. So what do you do if you want to drive around in a plug-in vehicle right now? You could always build one, but that seems like too much hard work. Instead, you...

  • Renault Twizy Z.E. electric vehicle
    2012 Renault Twizy: A Closer Look, And Do We Need It?

    Is it a car? Is it a scooter? No: It's a Twizy, which could be considered a combination of the two. If you're following the world of electric cars with a keen eye then you'll no doubt be aware that French manufacturer Renault is taking electric vehicles quite seriously, just like its Japanese...

  • Mia Electric microbus
    Mia Electric: 2011 Geneva Motor Show, The Microbus Concept

    If you read our guest post by actor, TV presenter and electric car convert Robert Llewellyn, you may have noticed his mention of a little electric microbus by the name of "Mia". Sitting in the middle of halls 4 and 5 with major manufacturers like Honda, Toyota, Renault and Ferrari in all...

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