While the overall automotive market has seen its blues highlighted by the recent Covid resurgence (down 27% in November), plugin vehicle sales continued to be steaming hot (+204%), with plugin hybrids (PHEVs) growing faster than full electrics (up 291%, to 9,144 units).
Earlier this month, Fiat unveiled its first new car that was designed — from the outset — to be a purely electric offering. Meet the all-new 2020 Fiat 500e that was supposed to debut at the Corona-cancelled Geneva show. It’s a car that looks so much like the old one that you’d be forgiven for wonder what, exactly, has changed.
The Fiat 500e is the hot, cute, fun, popular little electric car that could. Despite Fiat’s lack of interest in producing and selling electric cars — and even its sharp opposition to the task — the 500e has been a hit in places where it’s been sold. The problem is that those places are just: California and Oregon. Seriously.
We’ve got stories about Chicago-Cleveland Hyperloop, a retro electric moped, an electric motorcycle at 24 Hours of LeMans, crowdfunded green ventures, the current state of democracy in the US, and more in today’s cleantech news roundup.
Fiat cut me loose on the streets of LA in a 2016 500e to see if it could be as fun around town as it is on the track. I’ve driven both manual & automatic 500s, and a broad range of other electric cars. None of them as fun as the Fiat 500e. And it’s not just one biker chick saying this, plenty of car guys agree too.
There will apparently be a notable number of Fiat 500e electric cars hitting the used, second-hand market within the near future — since the first lease batches of 2013 Fiat 500e are now beginning to end. The “news” originates with Bozi Tatarevic, on Twitter, with the following (rather telling) image:
Originally published on EV Obsession. One of the less-obvious ways that Tesla has been shaking up the auto industry with its iconoclastic ideas has been its move towards over-the-air/wireless software updates as a way of dealing with some problems — rather than having to issue a recall anytime there’s a … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. I finally got behind the wheel of a Fiat 500e while I was in Los Angeles for the Tesla Model 3 unveiling. I had heard wonderful things about the car, but naturally wanted to test it out for myself and compare it to the Nissan … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Those living in California who are interested in going electric but don’t have much available money may be interested to learn that some dealerships are offering 2016 Fiat 500e leases for as low as $69 a month. That’s, of course, $69 a month with a down … [continued]
I saw this story a few days ago and decided not to cover it, but then Chris went ahead and wrote up a good piece on it, so below it is. However, I want to make a couple of key points as well first: 1) It requires a lot of work … [continued]
