Electric Cars For Sale

Daimler AG has announced that it will be providing its latest electric car – the Smart Forwo Electric to a thousand select customers across Europe and the US by 2011. The following year will see the company moving into producing a high volume of electric cars for sale to the public in 41 markets around the world. The thousand customers to whom the company will be supplying the initial Smart Forwo Electric cars would be chosen from those who are participating in different mobility projects in major European and US cities. The same car would be available to the masses from 2012.

Smart Forwo is Daimler AG’s second generation plug in electric car. It is a little over 2.5 meters in length, with a 30 kW motor at the rear that is powered by a high performance lithium-ion battery. The car takes only 6.5 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 60 kilometers per hour. According to a company official a full charge costs around 2 Euros and can last for 115 kilometers, which is sufficient enough for traveling within the city. Thierry Petry, a government official at Moselle province of France said that Daimler AG had ambitious electric car plans and was planning to tap many more mare markets with its new smart electric car.