In all seriousness, the new Fourtwo should be a decent step up in a few areas from its internal combustion brother. The first being that the transmission is now a single speed unit as opposed to the wreched units found in the 1st and 2nd gen Fourtwo's.
Next is the torque improvements, the power on tap compared to the gas car starts from the second you accelerate and you get all of it, all 55kw of it. It's quieter and smoother to boot. The only places where it will be worse is range where it's estimated it will only be able to go about 140 kms or 85 miles. These range numbers fair pretty well in comparison to the only other EV in production the Nissan Leaf, who's range is 160kms (100miles).
The E-Fourtwo will run to 60kph in about 5 seconds which is 1.5 seconds faster than the 2000 model run test model that featured Tesla battery technology. New battery tech is provided by Deutsche Accumotive and numbers are better across the board. Peak kW went up from 30 kW to 55 kW and normal operation went from 20 kW to 35kW. Batteries in both cases are lithium ion units.
Top speed for the E-Fourtwo is around 120kph and the run from 0-100 kph (0-60mph) takes around 13 seconds. This bests the gasoline car by about a second as it can only reach 100kph in around 14 seconds.
The car can be fully charged in under 8 hours with a regular house hold charger but a 22kW fast charger unit can charge the in less than an hour.
If your interested in pre-ordering you can go to www.smart.com and register.
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