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Es gibt bereits seit einigen Jahren mehr Ladesäule als Tankstellen und das obwohl man sie nicht braucht.

Hatte mir ja erst keinen Kopf zu dieser Nachricht gemacht. Sollen sie eben. Sind ja nur 10 Jahre zu spät dran.

After a good 5 years, our smart electric drive went already over 200,000km. We are still excited about how little maintenance and how much fun you can have with a car. In this post I would like to tell you about the highlights and why it is an entry-level drug.

When Brusa brought their NLG663 back in 2012 to the market, they where the first company to build a 22kW charger in series production. Back then, other manufactures where only able to fit 11kW in the same volume. The smart ED3 was the first electric vehicle to be equipped with it. A special feature of the 22kW charger is its high efficiency and its quiet operation, it also has a galvanic isolation between mains and HV battery and is VDE certified. That's also why it's being used in the 2.000 PS…

It's been 25 years since smart launched the fortwo and started production in Hambach. Over time, of course, there were a lot of small smart fortwos and a total of four generations of the electric drive. But also many other cool other cars.

BRABUS, Crossblade, Roadster and even an SUV in 2004. Let's go back into the history of smart and keep an eye on the most notable cars and milestones.
smart is also talking about smart times again...

Who has been following smart eMotion for a while, knows that the smart electric drive has no problems with high mileage. My own smart ED3 reached the 200,000 km in November 2018 and still has 90 % of it's battery capacity remaining after 2,000 cycles.
At that time I already predicted that it would not be the HV technology that's going to eventually quiet its service. Was I right? What broke in the last 200,000 km?


At first I would like to thank Oliver and his wife for this phenomenal achievement:…

In 2013, Mercedes Benz presented the SLS AMG electric drive and thus the technical pinnacle of e-mobility at the time. Not only at Mercedes, but worldwide. But how is this car doing after 10 years and over 50,000 km?

The car was limited to 9 unites and was sold only to selected customers. I was lucky enough to experience what is probably the only Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG electric drive live, which has already cracked 50,000 km, and was be able to talk to its owner about his experiences with the car.

In this article, I would like to take a closer look at the SLS AMG electric drive and report on how it does after 50,000 km.

The smart ED3 accelerates already very well from the factory, but it gets even better with the 95 PS Tuning from the Brabus. This also brings the Brabus Sport mode. Since the smart ED3 and the smart Brabus ED3 got the same powertrain, the tuning can be easily performed via a software update. With the Brabus Tuning, your smart ED3 also drives 5 km / h faster.

In this blog post you will learn how to get the Brabus software in your smart ED3.

It is particularly pleasant that the Brabus software can…

10 years after the Model S, Tesla might now do the same thing to the truck industry, as they did to the car industry the last 10 years.

If you want all-wheel drive but don't want to buy a BRABUS #1, you can now order the smart #1 pulse for €46,490.

Positioned between the Premium and the BRABUS, the pulse seems to be better equipped here than in China. So let's dive right in to it.

Eigentlich ist es etwas gutes, dass Ionity zukünftig auch auf die zuverlässigen Hypercharger von #Alpitronic setzt.

Aber unsere Abhängigkeit von einem einzigen Anbieter für zuverlässige Ladeinfrastruktur geht weiter und das ist ein Problem...

The first smarties with a battery rental contract are now turning 10 years old and in the coming months and years this of course will increase. This raises a question I'm getting asked more and more:
The 10-year rental contract is expiring and I received an offer from smart to buy a battery. Should I buy it?

In this article I would like to give you an overview of your options and of course I will also tell you how I will deal with the rental battery of my own 2013 smart.

Wouldn't it be better to swap batteries in 5 minutes instead of having to recharge them for 20 to 40 minutes?

Good question and since Nio now wants to establish exactly that in Europe, I talked to the Head of Power at Nio about this topic. In the past there have been attempts by others to do just that. Even Tesla had tried it and even had a working beta program, but couldn't get that to work either.
What makes Nio different and why do I still consider battery swapping to be a transitional technique, similar to the hybrid drive?

Blockiergebühren an der Ladesäule sind grundsätzlich sinnvoll und hier ist warum.

Quantron präsentiert stolz einen Wasserstoff-LKW mit 1.500 km Reichweite. Dazu hat das gute Stück Platz für 108 Liter Wasserstoff. Es gibt außerdem eine Variante mit 54 Liter und 750 km, etwas, was auch vollelektrische LKWs heute bereits schaffen.

A smart EMOTION reader noticed about two weeks ago that the smart is now appearing in the Mercedes me app. Obviously, Mercedes had taken the trouble to integrate the smart into the Mercedes app. Meanwhile, the smart EQ control app had another server failure. The conclusion was obvious, the smart EQ control app will be deactivated and replaced by the Mercedes app.

But it turns out differently. I've asked smart and they where at first at a loss and then quite reluctant as to why the smart appears in the Mercedes app. More on this in the article, also when smart will officially deactivate the smart EQ app forever and what app alternatives will then be available.

I'm still being asked why you should buy an expensive wall box when the same thing is also available as a cheaper solution in the form of a charging brick. However, I strongly advise against this, not only from personal experience. Nowadays, mainly due to a variety of experiences from my readers and things that I have already seen over time.
Charging bricks are not called emergency charging cables for nothing and should therefore not be used as a permanent charging solution. They are not designed for this and sooner or later, in the best case, "just" something will break, in the worst case even burst into flames. This saves no money.

In this article I answer all the common questions and myths that I have come across on the subject over the past few years. At the end I will also give you a safe and inexpensive recommendation.

In order to stabilize our power grid and still make fast charging possible everywhere, we need storage solutions. But rechargeable batteries are expensive, die after a few thousand cycles and accordingly they are no solution.
At least that's how ZOOZ Power sees it and therefore has a new approach. Instead of batteries, they simply have flywheels. These can be accelerated to 17,000 revolutions per minute. Regaining the power is achieved by slowing them down again and using the motor as generator. The system is said to be significantly more cycle-resistant and significantly cheaper in the medium and long term.

I had the chance to let ZOOZ Power Germany show me such a storage system and explain it to me. It's an exciting topic and you can find my thoughts on it in this article.

Neben dem CCS-Standard will Ford Tesla's proprietären Stecker ab 2025 an deren Fahrzeugen verbauen. Das bedeutet, es gibt zig Adapter und Fahrzeuge haben möglicherweise mehr als nur einen Ladeanschluss.

Kostengünstiger waren Elektro-LKWs schon vor dem Megawatt Charging. Aber noch nicht gleich schnell wieder voll.