DISQUS

Jeff Tunnell · 1 year ago

If they deliver, I'm finally in for an electric car. This kind of car makes sense. Even though I have been into hot cars and motorcycles my entire life, I have had absolutely no interest in the hopped up EV's like the Tesla and Volt. Those cars remind of the people creating 10,000 sq. ft. houses with a LEED rating to assuage their guilt. On the other hand, I'm not into paying $30,000 or more for a garage built DIY car that will have lots of problems that can't be fixed by local mechanics. The EV Smart looks to solve both problems.

Donald McFizz · 1 year ago

The smart is Fugly

Chris Baskind · 1 year ago

So was the Volkswagen.

Bosco · 1 year ago

"... driven by celebrities, journalists, and a few well-heeled early adopters."
haha, who are you trying to kid? They would drive it once for show and tell then it would be put up in the shoe closet. These people drive SUV's, Limo's, and fly in private jets, just like Big Al.

Eric Williams · 1 year ago

I Think people are missing the boat on electric cars. I commute 70 miles round trip a day to work and do not use the car for anything else. I could care less which of the two cars is more successful just get them to the market so we have a choice. I drive a Ford Escape Hybrid and will buy the Plug-In version as soon as it hits the market sometime in 2010. www.FliteRecord.com

UncleB · 2 hours ago

The transition awaits the electric bullet train intercity network which will eliminate long haul white-knuckle car driving, jet aircraft flying both at once and promote the usability of the short haul plug-in electric car - only the American Military Machine will require foreign oil to operate, cutting budgets for oil enormously, Reserving oil for Military purposes, a good thing! We Americans will share a very much larger portion of world's finite resources with Asians as their empire grows! Someone will do without and it is us! The weakening dollar says so! Our dollar can no longer command the 80% of world's resources required to maintain our Status Quo! We will give up much for this fact! A stronger Yuan competes with us as we speak! Even Mercedes with its new 40% more efficient diesel blue TEC engine, clean enough for California is going to give GM(America) competition - simple fact: they built a better engine! America is in deep Ka-Ka and sinking fast! What the Hell happened to our "Superiority" our "Entitlement"? Why are we no longer the "Chosen Ones" of this world? Will we see Third World rubble like the former U.S.S.R." SEE: http://uprooted.jessicareeder.com/2009/09/detro... and weep! We are there, now!