longevity / mileage

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.

My little smart electric drive is already 10 years old. It was ordered by my parents out of curiosity in 2012 and then received it in 2013. At a time when there were not even 10,000 electric cars on German roads.
At the beginning of 2016 it became the first car of my own and the reason for my enthusiasm for the smart brand.

In this article I dedicate myself to the 275,000 km old smart ED and tell what happened during this time.

Who followed smart eMotion already for a while, knows that I drive a lot and maybe already heard about my 200,000 km old smart ED3. I have been driving the newer model since 2018 and have already covered over 50,000 km in the first 12 months, due to Corona the next 50,000 km then took 16 months.

Now my little smartEQfortwo, as the first in the world, has now reached the 100,000 km:

• What did it experience during this time?
• How is the battery doing?
• What were the scheduled services and where any

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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:…

That my smart still has 90% capacity remaining is already known. But I still have been interested in the conditions under which it got them. The battery management system (BMS) is responsible for the battery and it may be that it begins to be extra careful with the battery, thus limiting performance and / or longevity.

The full experience report as well as a detailed cost and repair list can be found here: 200,000km with the smart electric drive

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.

Dieser Erfahrungsbericht wurde ursprünglich auf meiner alten Webseite veröffentlicht. Er berichtet davon wie es dazu kam das unser smart electric drive von 2013, ja im Prinzip aus Versehen und als einer der ersten weltweit, die 100.000km geknackt hatte.

Mit den 100.000 km auf dem Tacho wird es Zeit mal nach dem Auto zu sehen und zu kucken, was sich in diesen 40 Monaten so getan hat.