• Darth_Ra@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Ye olde Smart Car problem:

    “Wow, that’s a cute little car, must’ve been pretty cheap, huh?”

    “Nah, it was $30K. Same as a Honda Civic, with a quarter the space and none of the bells and whistles.”

    “…”

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      1 year ago

      Also, “it must get great gas mileage”, nope 36mpg (EPA rating in the US). Worse than my Ford fiesta at the time which was 14k (back in 2014).

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know how they fucked up the efficiency. The EV version is also terrible at 16.1 kWh/ 100 km. It should be easy to get much lower than that with such a light car. Maybe the onboard inverter is too inefficient?