SMART Electric ForTwo @ 2008 Paris Auto Show

[smartcarfor2]

@Moviechaser Ever heard of renewable wind and current turbines... what are you referring to moviechaser?

[t4c4]

its nice but i think doking xd is better car

[beancube2010]

A small motor cycle one stroke combustion engine on-board will recharge for all small e-vehicles without add too much weight

[JUKIO01]

id buy cheap solar panels and attach them to the top, it will charge my batteries while driving and when im stationed

[cippergut]

Electric cars are still a niche product. The main reason is the current "crappy" battery technology (I think they are actually hard to make). Currently there isn't a working electricity supplying infrastructure for cars. So if i use my car for commute or short trip it's all right. But I don't buy a car if I konw that I would never be able to use it for 500+ km trip. I think it would be ok if these cars allowed to travel any distance, even with lower performances and higher costs than usual.

[hunterman2020]

Your car is  nice

[PGX17g]

wtf no gas sucks!!!!! can't even put no exhaust!!!

[RealinMississippi]

why cant they find a way to make an electric car have an alternator then u can ride longer

[sebairaf3]

u have no idea about phycics really?

first learna little about energy, and make deductions, then write comments....

i am zorry for my english, i am starting to learn it now...

[lenin1928]

looks like a clown car at a circus

[k3456789]

I drove the car

drives nicely no different then corolla

[sepulcrack]

la voiture tant attendue en France , a condition de ne pas etre trop chère.

[nepoereh]

my be we shold convert know up cars in to electric

[runswithscissorsalot]

the first company to show leadership in EVs is the company that can capitalize on the MASSIVE untapped market for production EVs. Look at american car manufacturers as an example. They are collapsing AGAIN during this current oil crisis because at the end of the day it comes down to one market driver: efficiency. EVs have always been the most efficient. Now that batteries have caught up, it would be stupid not to capitalize on it.

[shakaama]

batteries have caught up.

the oil companies buy the patents. look at who killed the electric car, the battery inventor developed an even better battery and was bought out, and sent packing.

[smartcarfor2]

@shakaama If I am not mistaken Chevron owns the patent for the battery design from the Saturn EV1... but we've long since passed that technology. Only one power will force this change and its not Government, its the consuming public.

[shakaama]

@smartcarfor2 I've already decided the next car I buy will be all electric, and not with crappy 50 mile range. If that needs to have solar panels all over it, so be it. As long as it has a nice aerodynamic shape, I don't care what it looks like. per se.

[joaquinveyron]

@shakaama "solar panels " ??? solar panels on the roof of a car may be good for powering the radio, but that's it.

[5botball]

Well they better do something not just Talk

[benny7690]

this can be a ferrari enzo!!!

[smartcarfor2]

How is it that for 20 years it always comes down to the freaking batteries. All the science in the world and a battery is the hold up?

[jimmypodunk]

I've got the solution. Have free plug ins at Walmart while you shop. And the electric vehicle parking spots up closer to the door.

[smartcarfor2]

great idea... and hey what about when u go to the city, you have to pay the same price for the time u spend in the metered parking spaces, but if you are recharging that is part of the meter price.

[AM429]

thats a lot of electricity to be given away.

[joaquinveyron]

@smartcarfor2 Yep, the best batteries (Li-ion) nowadays have an energy density of around 180 Wh per kg, whereas gasoline has 18 kWh per kg. This is 1 to 100. So, even if you leapfrog the development and achieve improvement rates of 100 or 200 %, gasoline still would be better by 50 resp. 30 times. The Tesla roadster has the equivalent of how many laptop batteries? 6000?

[smartcarfor2]

@joaquinveyron thanks for all the apples to orange scientific comparisons. There in lies most of the problem. The only thing that is the same in the two propulsion types that they both power the car. The fact of the matter is that battery powered and gas powered cars are nearly impossible to equate to one another. There is a lot of re-education and changes that have to take place in how Americans think about their transportation needs. We have a long way to go, but we need to start now.

[joaquinveyron]

@smartcarfor2 First of all, I am not a stupid American. Being American and talking about science doesn't fit, does it??

Aehm, yes, when it comes to decide about the range, charging time, weight ... then the factors I listed are the decisive ones which you also can and should compare to gasoline.

Please do us a favor, don't try to use the word "scientific". This word, coming from you, sounds very strange.

[smartcarfor2]

@joaquinveyron whats the beef with scientific comparisons with practical applications. I AM an American and you are from France. Funny, the car I drive is German engineering and build in a facility owned by Mercedes operated in where... France. So enjoy that. I've owned cars made by every American manufacturer, as well as having owned not one or two but 6 different VW's I've owned both gas and diesel powered cars and would own a diesel today if smart offered one in the US. ...

[joaquinveyron]

@smartcarfor2 The smart is available as diesel in the US, but there is no market for diesels in the US.

[smartcarfor2]

@joaquinveyron the smart is NOT available i the USA. It is in Canada but the EPA has NOT cleared the smart diesel for the US market. There is a growing market for diesels in the US. In time they will be as common here as in Europe.

[joaquinveyron]

@smartcarfor2 First of all, I am not French, but actually give a shit about it, because this wouldn t matter anyhow. (Would my English be this good, if I were French, btw?). The world is putting "its head of the clouds" and a lot of efforts is done - at least in Europe - to develop new technologies. But many of them are not good neither in economic nor - and more importantly - in ecological terms. And to say that E-cars are good only bcs gasoline cars are emitting CO2 is simply extremely stupid.

[smartcarfor2]

@joaquinveyron I did not say you were French, I said you were from France, at least you set up your YouTube account to say so. Who cares about if your English would be better or worse if you were from France or French. Are you implying that the French can not master English? Interesting lead to show the growing Diesel market in the US. Mercedes just invested over $200 Million in the Detroit Diesel manufacturing plant to produce diesel engines in the USA. Your theories on E-cars is flawed.

[smartcarfor2]

@joaquinveyron ... When you plant theories about the efficiencies of internal combustion engines to battery powered vehicles, its like comparing the core of the earth to the sun, both very hot but both very different. Don't try to blast the comparative in an evaluation of your theories. I won't bite. Don't presume all Americans are uneducated, you'd be wrong. Just know that the fossil fuel that we burn in our cars today is devastating, no matter how much you try to say how efficient it is

[smartcarfor2]

@joaquinveyron How do I decide that an electric vehicle is more efficient that any fossil fuel powered vehicle? Because if ... yes I said "if", the world ever got its head out of the clouds and put real effort into capturing the free energy that is provided by the sun, the winds, the ocean currents... we would free ourselfs from the damage we cause every single day. Since this is a battle that can rage on for ever, I digress. Enjoy your 'efficient" gas powered car, it's your choice.

[60UDA]

wow, 3 lug wheels...