
So Smart: Electric ForTwo Arrives This Fall
August 20th, 2009 admin
Topics: 2004-or-newer, average, battery, cars, evs and hybrids, lilliputian, project, racing, tesla motors, united-states

Germany wants to put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020, and it looks like the first of them will be the Lilliputian Smart fortwo EV that starts rolling off an assembly line in November. Daimler announced today that it will begin mass-producing the urban runabout by mid-November and begin leasing it to “selected” customers in Europe and the United States by the end of the year. The rest of us will be able to buy it in 2012.
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