Smart Fortwo Ed Photograph: Simon Stuart-Miller From its debut 10 years ago, the Smart Fortwo has looked like a prototype for a future that is about to arrive but never does. Envisaged as a sort of 2CV for the 21st century, the Smart concept originated with Swatch, the watch company. It formed an alliance with Mercedes but when the project failed to live up to expectations, and ran up large financial losses, the Swiss timekeepers called time. Subsequently, Mercedes worked on creating greater fuel economy for the Smart Fortwo, the standard two-seater, and produced a hybrid version. Yet perhaps the car’s major contribution to transport culture has been the slightly irritating habit ...

SP AusNet Chooses Ericsson’s Solution For Smart Meter Communications November 26, 2013 Ericsson will provide a standards-based 3G network in Victoria, Australia designed to allow communications directly to smart meters over an existing Australian public mobile network. IUS Technologies Develops New Smart Sensors for Theft Detection November 26, 2013 Forward-looking utilities are implementing smart sensors to complement AMI/AMR systems in detecting fraud, unauthorized use, and inefficient energy distribution. The line of sensors introduced by IUS is designed to provide power usage data that can be compared with AMI/AMR smart meter readings to pinpoint illegal or unauthorized power ...

2006 Smart ForFour LPG news, pictures, and information smart is working intensively on alternative drives and one of these is now going into series production. The smart forfour lpg (liquified petroleum gas) combines the petrol engines (47, 55, 70 or 80 kW) – which are themselves economical – wîth liquified petroleum gas drive. This does not only increase the vehicle’s cruising range, for example that of the 70 kW variant by 450 km to almost 1,300 km – above all it is kind to the environment and the wallet. The environment benefits because the emissions produced by liquified gas drive are considerably lower than those of conventional combustion engines, and lpg is also kind ...

2013 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive Review: The Ideal Urban Electric (w/video) Pair of Smart Fortwo Electric Drives Ready to Hit the Road for Some Testing This past June, the New Jersey Electric Auto Association. which I#8217;m an active member of, put on a SmartED Test Drive event. Powered by a Potato So what is a SmartED?  Well, it is the all electric Smart car, manufactured by Daimler AG and ED stands for Electric Drive. This is not their first attempt at an electric Smart – what we have here is the 3rd generation.   The first generation, called Smart Fortwo EV (that badge would be larger than the car) in 2007 was a conversion by Zytek Electric Vehicles and this was really a field test. ...

Smart City Coupe Motor News Motor Reviews New Car Reviews Date September 10, 2003 (0) Joshua Dowling, Motoring Editor Pidgeonhole: It just about fits in one. Philosophy: Park where others can’t. Trivia: The smart car company began as a joint venture between watchmaker Swatch and Mercedes-Benz. Almost half a million smarts have been built since the car went on sale in Europe in July 1998. A Melbourne company privately imported the smart in small numbers and sold them for $40,000 before Mercedes-Benz imported them officially in June this year priced from $21,900. There are more than 300 options and customers can change the colour of the car at whim by swapping plastic exterior panels. ...

Think smart; think small; think cute; think cuddly; think economical. Think SLOW! The smart forfour BRABUS comes with a 177bhp turbocharged 1.5-litre engine and seats four. It’s not small, cute, cuddly or economical; welcome to the anti-smart. First things first: it’s smart, not Smart; it’s forfour, not Forfour, or even ForFour, and it’s most definitely BRABUS not Brabus or brabus. That last bit is important, the BRABUS contribution to the anti-smart is fully deserving of CAPITAL letters. Big, large ones. Your normal cooking smart forfour comes with a choice of 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5-litre petrol engines developing 75, 95 and 109bhp respectively, or a pair of 1.5-litre ...

smart fortwo electric drive heads to North America smart fortwo electric drive heads for U.S. and Canada Daimler has announced that its smart fortwo electric drive will cross the Atlantic later this year. The tiny two seater, which has a rear mounted 30 kW electric motor producing 120 Nm of torque, a range of 100 km to 135 km and can be parked pretty much anywhere, is slated to reach cities in USA and Canada in Q3. The first generation smart fortwo electric drive has been in operation on London streets since 2007 and the current second-gen model (which has a lithium-ion battery developed by Tesla Motors Inc. as opposed to the original sodium-nickel-chloride power pack) rolled off the production ...

1 ,400 Smarts Turn Up for U.K. Smartfest Car Show Smart Crossblade Smart ForTwo display team Whilst the U.S. might not be warming to the ‘Smart car’ quite the way owners Daimler might have hoped. the same can’t be said for the car’s reception in Europe. 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the Smart in the United Kingdom, and to celebrate, the marque hosted ‘Smartfest’ at Mercedes-Benz World in the South of England. Over 1,400 examples turned up, with the popular ForTwo being joined by discontinued models such as the Roadster and ForFour. In the grounds of Mercedes’ impressive showroom, museum and test track facility, hundreds of Smarts lined ...

Related Pictures Contact: Debbie Hull 01908 301313 smart Helps To Save Lives smart is helping to save lives by shaving valuable seconds off the response time to emergency 999 calls in crowded city centre locations. A smart city coupe, which has been fitted with paramedic body panels and a special siren designed for driving in confined and crowded public areas, is on trial with the East Anglian Ambulance Service. A solo paramedic can drive the revolutionary, two-seater car into crowded shopping centres, narrow pedestrian areas, or airport terminals, carrying life saving resuscitation equipment right up to the scene of an incident. City centre environments with tight corners, height restrictions ...

February 1, 2012. Stuttgart. The spring of 2012 will see the smart fortwo making its mark in a striking new look, featuring an upgraded exterior and a fresh leather/fabric mix in the interior. The smart fortwo is available for ordering now. The first vehicles will reach dealers at the beginning of April. The substantially revamped smart fortwo sports a markedly more dynamic appearance, featuring a larger radiator grille with integrated logo, striking front aprons in a new design, horizontally arranged LED daytime driving lights, muscular side skirts and modified rear aprons. The way in which the fortwo now displays the smart logo more prominently stands for the brand’s new self-confidence, ...