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Last Saturday the smart times were in China and in contrast to the European ones, the Chinese smart times where a event with everything you would have expected. Great community events, a smart car parade, very nice merchandise and a breathtaking show.

Plus the announcement that they are working on a new fortwo, a new special edition with improved autopilot and the first smart #5 teaser. You can find out everything about the smart times in China in this article.

For smart's 25th anniversary, there is not only a special edition, but also an entire coffee table book. It will be available soon and I already had the opportunity to take a closer look at it this week.

In this article you will find out what this great collector's item contains and why smart spent six months creating the book.

Dieter Zetsche, former Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, is now also driving a smart #1.

As the smart Germany CEO proudly announces today, he was honoured to hand over this smart #1 to Mr. Zetsche today. Because even at Mercedes, they know who builds the best all-electric compact SUV.

Now that smart has finally delivers a CCS-capable car with the #1, smart drivers can also enjoy the Tesla Supercharger.

But how does it actually work?
How much does it cost and how do you unlock them?
What to look out for?

All these questions will be answered in this article.

I renamed the EQpassion page to smart EMOTION. The attentive ones among you have already noticed. I have also completely overhauled the design of my website and made it even clearer.

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?

Smart, weren't they sold to China? They don't build the fortwo anymore, the plant was sold. What are they doing now, wasn't there an SUV?

The world has changed in the last 20 years and smart is now changing too. Smart is rebuilding, reinventing itself. But what does that mean and what are the biggest hurdles now?

The smartEQfortwo as a snow clearing and street gritting vehicle. What sounds strange at first is actually regularly used by various snow plowing services in Germany. It all started back in 2010, when snow was still moved with a conventional combustion engine smart cars.
Since winter 2020/21, all-electric smartEQfortwo have also been equipped with snow plows. There are also rear gritters to make the smart plow truck complete. Everything is Made in Germany and also has full street approval.
In…

2020 smart became the world's first conventional manufacturer to convert to an electric car brand. The brand had already discontinued the diesel at the end of 2014 and now also the gas engine. This means that smart is now on par with Tesla.
As we fans have already noticed, the change takes it's time, there is no immediate success. But the joint venture with Geely should change that soon.

It took Tesla many years before they had any success to show off. At smart things should go a little faster,…

In Germany a reader's letter by a smart ED3 owner causes a stir:
"The battery, of my smart 451, is now defective after five years. The cost for the exchange is 17,000 euros plus VAT, the delivery date is approximately in September. The little one is now a total economic loss. I'll put him in the garden, plant a few flowers in it and drive my diesel to work again"

Of course, that's a topic you are only interested in, if you actually bought the battery at that time (4.770 € surcharge). The vast…

In 2019 we won the season. To do this, we had to prevail against the other teams in Andorra, Hungary, Germany, France and Spain. While we were relying on the Tesla Model S abroad, we drove the three races in Germany (Schauinsland hill climb, night race at Hockenheimring, Oscherlseben 24-hour race) with two smarties: My 2018 smart EQ and a 2014 smart ED


What is the ecoGP about?

The ecoGP is organized by Rafael de Mestre. As he drove already two times around the world with his Tesla, he knows that…

Dieser Testbericht wurde von meiner alten Webseite übernomen, zwischenzeitlich wird die elektrische B-Klasse nichtmehr gebaut.
Am Wochenende vom 28. bis zum 30. Oktober 2016 hat mir dankenswerter Weise S&G Pforzheim Mercedes electric drive B-Klasse zur Verfügung gestellt.

Meine doch gemischten Gefühle und Erlebnisse möchte ich hier mit Euch teilen und etwas über das Autos erzählen und auch darauf ein gehen, wie Mercedes mit der electric drive B-Klasse um geht und warum ich sie beim besten…

Dieser Testbericht wurde von meiner alten Webseite übernommen, er thematisiert den BMW i3 so wie er 2013 vorgestellt und verkauft wurde. Seit 2018 ist er mit der doppelten Reichweite und mehr Ausstattung verfügbar.

Über das Wochenende vom 8. und 9. Oktober 2016 habe ich einen BMW i3 (62Ah) vom Autohaus Müller in Leonberg bekommen. An dieser Stelle auch nochmal ein herzliches Danke an Herr Streicher der mir außerhalb des Standarts den i3 ein ganzes Wochenende überlassen hat.

Hier möchte ich über…