General informations

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.

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.

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?

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.
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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…