Smartcarpedia.org » city car http://www.smartcarpedia.org Smart Car News, Reviews, Video & Pictures Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:40:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Smart May Go ForElectric http://www.smartcarpedia.org/smart-may-go-forelectric http://www.smartcarpedia.org/smart-may-go-forelectric#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:19:35 +0000 admin http://www.smartcarpedia.org/smart-may-go-forelectric 2008′s Paris Motor Show introduced a cavalcade of electric and battery operated automobiles to the public. One missing – a SMART Car electric vehicle. Thankfully, marketing manager for Smart USA Pitt Moos (yes, that is his real name) stated at the show: “Two years ago nobody said an electric vehicle was even possible, today everybody is saying, ‘We’re going to make one.”

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Smart announced plans to build all-electric vehicles for Europe by the end of the decade. But it hasn’t said what its intentions are for the North American market.

Moos continued: “The challenge has always been the battery. We have just in the past couple of months become comfortable about a method of making lithium batteries for cars. Now some people are starting to quote Obama: Yes, we can.”

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Guess we know which way the people at Smart swing when it comes to elections.

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