2018 Smart Electric Drive 70mph Highway Range Test (Not Very Good)
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Great video, really enjoyed it! I just bought my second smart EV a month ago (I live in the EU) and for those who pooh-pooh the range I can say - the car is not for you. My place of work is 3 miles away (all city driving) and I recharge the smart once a week. In the city I get about 80 miles of range without straining the battery. Need to go further? All you need is to have other cars in the garage and you're fine. So it's not for everyone, but it sure is for me!
Right? People should be realistic with their driving needs.
Hey, I'm about to get a Smart Fortwo 2017 (12.000€) and I was wondering if it is possible to drive 90km (56 miles) on highway. Thanks in advance
@@alex-eucmad.7133 Not sure, is it the current version?
EXACTLY @@samusaran7317
Did you get one in the end ?
I have other EVs, I doubt this thing can make it 90km on highway speeds @@alex-eucmad.7133
had an 09 gas Smart, drove it from Canada to OK City OK to attend a wedding. It was a rare car in the US at that time and I had several good folks follow me off the hwy to ask questions. Funny that they all thought it was electric then. I used to kid them that I needed to find a store that sold double A batteries so that I could continue. Fun trip, but sadly I no longer have it.
The 2020 models (not available in US) has a 90 mile range & charges at 22KW instead of 7KW goes from 10%-80% in 40 minutes. Wish US would make these available again.
The US didn't remove them
What happened is that the smart car brand left the US because of low sales which is tragic
The 22 kw charging in European Smarts requires 400V 3-phase service and so would not be available in the US even if the car was.
@@joseph8027yep and apparently they have no desire of ever bringing them back sadly 😢
That was such a fun, informative review! And Rocky Mount is lucky to have you as a spokesperson. Thank you!
Nice tour, love the area. Kyle you were making me sweat with that hoodie on an 80+ degree day!
Hey...thanks for the tour of the town and your hospitality has enticed me to subscribe.
I have this same car (the glass roof passion). I leased mine and my lease is almost over. Using the AC makes a huge reduction in range. You probably could have squeezed out another 10-20 miles if the AC was not running.
It doesn’t affect it that much - it only pulled a max around 1-1.5kW during the run
Do you think I could make it for my commute? NE so cold and hot days. 40mls round trip ranging from 35 to 55 mph, mostly 45 mph.
Yeah 40 miles round trip is fine. But since you'd have to get one used I'd make sure to see a report of the battery cell testing to make sure it's ok. Or take it for a 50-60 mile test drive just to make sure it still is on good health
My heater on mine drops the range around 17 miles! I preheat in the morning then turn on the heater 1/3rd into my drive. I also have added a plug in heater that helps a little.
@@hogster5935 Just get a hybrid and forget about all the range stress driving this.
Love the vanity tag on your Smart car
I'd say you hit EPA range for sure. That's good on the Smart to do that city/highway EPA. i love Rocky Mount Mills, such a cool place and close to the track!
Glad to see this. We have a 2016 Smart For Two ED and love it for around town! I love driving it with the back window open in our coupe in the summer. We have a little device that just opens it about 1 inch and it is locked there when the car is locked. It is not for everyone but it was our first EV. It was purchased used. It had been leased to a head shop in Colorado Springs area. We found a roach clip in the seats after delivery to us in TN. (We had is shipped!). We love it and have since got a Tesla Model Y and have a Cybertruck on order!
Wow, what a beautiful area. I live in Charlotte, NC. I've never been to Rocky Mount before.
The town itself is undergoing some serious work to make it nicer, but the mills area where we live is beautiful!
I agree, looks like he's in a great location!
@@OutofSpecMotoring May end up there when I retire in a few years. Could by TN as well.
My heart was in my mouth watching this video, I wish they went further, I'd love to own one
But will my i3 go farther?
SMART all over in town love it
Hello I just picked up that same year make and model and I love it actually it’s a fantastic car.
Wow. I think my 2019 Chevy Volt can come really close to that EV range.
@@NoName-nb9qi I gave a damn. As have other people by likes. Stop assuming you speak for everyone. You aren’t that important.
I'd like one and also looking at some others. Mini SE, Fiat 500e, Leaf and ID4 if I go new. For a cheap used clean car, It's between Smart and 500e. I heard the 500e ride better. Love your posts and enjoying much!
I actually bought a 2018 Smart Fortwo electric drive through driveway and I love it so much
Not as bad :)) I'm living in London and I really started thinking about getting one. 2019 version with a bit bigger battery. Good job !
Wow, nice surroundings.
Love this so cool thanks!
It’s okay to range test with AirCondition/Heating on... after all we want to be comfortable! 😀 However, for those of us who live in 75*F ambient temperatures it would be of interest to know your estimated range without cooling/heating on. I would think on this particular test your range would have been at least ~10 more miles !? We all know that EVs consume about 20 to 30 % of battery capacity for heating/cooling. At ~75*F ambient temperatures I still get a range of ~80 miles in my 2014 Electric⚡️SMART. That is 95% inner city driving, where I get some regen helping to feed the battery. But I’m quite happy to get this much range from an almost 7 years old battery 😁.
Love the tiny homes
i have one and i think the elevation of what looks like level roads matters a lot, it took us 50% battery to get to Disneyland chargers but only 15% of battery to get back home!
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Great video, looks a great place to live.
I'm looking into trading my gas 453 on the electric 453 but my commute is 46 Mike's round trip (although nothing over 50) my big concern is winter ❄️ we get down to -22°F here and at 60% usable range that's just 32 miles. Definitely not enough. Do you think it's manageable or should I steer clear? No chargers at work unfortunately.
Just bought one and i do mostly freeway between cities. my mpge is 120. after 42 miles of mostly 73mph driving the battery is at 42%. best part is it cost me $15k with only 6800 miles on the clock.
Hi Kyle I have been watching you for about 6 months following your journey I was wondering what ev’s would be best for budgets. -thanks Logan
Thanks for watching! I think the i3 is a great value especially with the REx. Premium, relatively inexpensive, and gas backup.
Rocky Mount...great city! I have been through there many times. I'm originally from Elizabeth City. Anyhow I have a 2013 Smart. I'm not sure what kind of range you were expecting but what you got out of yours if fairly typical. I can drive a distance of about 47 miles and have about 10% battery remaining. The only difference is that I am not driving 70mph. I take other roads where the speed limit ranges from 30 mph to 55 mph. Taking some other highway other than US 64/Future I-87, you could probably stretch your range a bit. Smarts...good cars but are definitely not made to go hundreds of miles on a single charge.
I bought a 2017 Smart a couple of weeks ago and it had a similar whistling sound on the highway. Turned out to be a leak at the top of the windshield on the passenger side. Mercedes is going to replace the glass under warranty since they usually break when they try to remove them.
I love that tiny house hotel!
I’m curious if you’ve ever driven an e golf.
I test drove one a few months ago and was very impressed. I’d be curious to get your opinion. They are an incredible deal on the used market.
Only once but was generally impressed! Would love to get one to test. I think the lack of battery liquid thermal management really kills it
You lost 1 BAR after promoting the BREWERIES, you are good. 😊
One thing you didn't mention in reference to taking the Smart on the highway; the drag coefficient rating.it has a smaller footprint than the model 3 but a lot higher drag.
Very trusting of you t leave your adapter plug on the destination charger. Those things aren't cheap.
Got the sense he knows all the other EV drivers in the town lol
Hi , did you try it with the AC switched off? They say it makes a massive difference to the range?
Kyle, where are the destination chargers down at the mill? Trying to plan a trip the the tiny houses sometime in the nearish future and they arent showing up in google or teslas nav map.
I show in the video, walking distance from the tiny homes!
How to do firmware update in the car?
51 Miles only is little bit too short, but getting around in side a city is awesome, so easy to find a parking spot.
I’m also guessing you meant to say you had 155mm tires. 255mm is larger than what’s on the Model 3 and is the same size as the Model Y’s tires. That would be insanely huge on a Smart.
Yup! I’m out of it. One thing people can be sure of, don’t ever take what I say as being accurate 😅🤣
How are you using Tesla wall connector?
What a beautiful place to live! We seem to get better range on ours. Did you have the air on the whole drive? Cheers from Cali!
Beautiful car. Had 2 but the petrol version. If you do need to do long journeys on the highway then I just hire a car for the day or weekend
My Smart diesel , fortwo does that far plus another 20 on less than a uk gallon 4.5 litres it hold 6 uk gallons so that is a big range without filling , on the road charging on the uk roads are expensive and rare to find.
I own this car since 2018. It is my Citi car only. This car is not meant to go on highways. It’s meant to go in the city. Haven’t put major gas in six years. Gas is now almost 2 dollars a litre in Canada.
I'm digging all the breweries around there. I'd enjoy making the rounds trying a bunch of them for sure! The tiny homes sound neat and all until you fall down the ladder at 3am going to pee after drinking all those beers though...
🤣🤣
I have a 2018 smart ev.
Would anyone know how to keep the cab air hot while charging in cold weather 🥶
I have the exact same car. My average consumption is 133 watts per km which is about 78 miles on a full charge. I’m gonna try to do a range test on highway and see how many kilometers I can extend the range up to. Will post the results here if anyone is interested.
Hi, I'm really interested. I'm about to buy a used Smart Fortwo 2017 (12.000€) and I need to drive 90km (56 miles) on highway. Do you think I'll be able to do that? Thanks in advance
Bad idea. Good chance you won’t make it in the really hot days and the cold days. And when some traffic jam happens you wil also be f…. So buy a Renault Zoe or something that has a little more range
@@bengrobben2582 thanks for your help, finally I ended up getting a BMW i3 Rex 👌🏼
You are now living on the west side of the USA. Do you still have the 2018 Smart EV?
how much did you drive completely? And at what average / maximum speed?
Watch the video, smelly.
Ha ha ha! Loved it! The license plate literally says DUMB, ha ha! 💛
How does it plug into a Tesla charger? Thx for the video!
I have an adapter
@@OutofSpecMotoring What type of adapter is that? We have a Tesla home charger now for my M3P but looking to buy a used Smart EQ.
Mercedes: pay more get less
Those tiny homes would make some great affordable domiciles.
I almost bought the previous gen Smart ED, but no DCFC ruined it for me with that short range. The Spark EV wound up being the car I bought instead. Didn’t even look at the version you have since the range was even lower, though I had no idea they threw so much rubber on that one.
Spark’s are really fun!
You said you charged it on a Tesla charger at the end, erm aren't those for Tesla cars only?
Get yer motors runnin
head out on the highway!
70 mph is probably a land speed record for a "Smart" car--how long did it take to accelerate to 70? I know when Jeremy drove the ICE Smart car on Top Gear, he gave up on 0-60 time since it was over 10 seconds.
It actually accelerates pretty quick to 70mph! Off the line it’s not slow
JEreMy ClaRKsoN
The smart is self-limited to 80 mph. It's as quick off the mark as my Mercedes CLS up to 50 km/h and I've blown away many a Golf GTI at the stoplight :-)
I have a 44 2021 It does between 90 and 120 between charges.
You don't buy a Smart to do 70 mph.
No one bought them because none of the dealers offered them! The only dealer within 150 miles of me that had exactly ONE was in manhattan. Same with the Ford focus.
That's odd. We get better range on our 2014 and 2016 then this here in LA. In the summer, 65+ is still common.
Where the iOS app?
I like how the name of the car is "smart" but the reg plate says "DUMB"
Irony perhaps.
I'm glad Kyle loves a car that's built in France🇫🇷 - not for long though as the production shifts to China. The Hambach site will get the Mercedes AQC electric.
By the way nice range test!! Can you test a model 3 standard range plus please?
Yes I will do a stand plus in just a couple weeks!
@@OutofSpecMotoring cool! I know your mom has one but we've only seen it drifting and I wanna see it with the 18 aero - max efficiency 😁
I think you meant to say 155 and 165 in the tyres size you said 255 and 265 I think you are so used to see tyre with more then 200 mm tread with that 155 doesn’t compute.
Yes I absolutely was not correct on factory tire width!! You can tell I'm out of it
Ive owned 2 gas engine Smart car cabrios They were Awesome!!!! Too bad they left the USA
Got some guts taking that thing up to that speed
I peg this thing at max speed everywhere!
My 2012 leaf only goes 30 so the smart is ahead of me
The problem about this car is only 57 miles range is kind a hassle .is just for small city's
Such a lovely car. Let down by poor range. Come on Mercedes... put some 2023 spec higher density batteries into it!
I would rather get an old leaf and replace the battery with a bigger newer version
What about the charger cooking your battery? *Rapidgate*
"Any stop time is wasted energy"..what??..I think your getting an ICE car confused with this...when your stopped there is no energy consumption...However, getting the car moving takes more than when your moving...
But i think if its traffic you can't really reach the range that it should be
Bro I think you mean u have 155 square versus 145 & 165 staggered stock not 255 square. It's a smart car not an AMG.
Yes! I’m out of it lol
51 miles? jesus
I'm surprised they even sell it in the US. US only has 3 or 4 *real* cities. The other "cities" are just a collection of roads going to places with some buildings in between. Why have a city car when you need to take a highway to buy some milk?
It's not really a big con of the smart car, because it's meant for the city
51 miles with A/C on?. Now do it without A/C. Do one video with fiat electric
Is this guy also the everyday astronaut?
Aka..Tim Dodd....supposedly...
He sounds like TD also...common words used also.
I had one of the last Smart CDis. Wow, incredible economy. 85-90mpg on a run to Scotland and back. EVs are a good idea but not practical enough for most people yet. Rich folk with driveways to wait all day and night to charge them and don't have any interest in driving very far, it suits them. The rest of us live in reality. I like EVs but I like the future version of what we have today. 1000 mile range no matter what the weather conditions or usage of lights, heater etc and the ability to pull into a service station, plug into one of the many plug points in place of the fuel pumps, charge to full in 5 minutes. Thats when I would like to get an EV. Until then, I shall stick two fingers up to everyone with a nice boxer engined Subaru. At least I feel alive in that.
crazy to think that the four door lucid supercar is dramatically more efficient than this POS. and I say that as someone who would love to own one. but in terms of engineering, a POS
That is truly horrible range. Love petrol smart cars but ev is a crazy purchase.
If they cut the top speed in half it'd make a fantastic quadricycle then you wouldn't need a licence to drive one because technically it wouldn't be classed as a car
Oh yea 255s on a smart car. You sure about that ? Lmao
Switching to an entirely electric lineup has been the biggest mistake by Smart
Horrible junk...
be silent
These are great cars.
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So you're saying you did a range test with the AC on.... Are you not aware that heating and cooling in a electric car can significantly skew your results? I question your credibility as a EV range tester now
Yes I’m aware. This is more of a real world ish 70mph test not an instrumented test. AC probably used around 700Wh or so during the test. - we’ve been doing these highway tests with AC on at a reasonable number in each car.
How many times do you have both your heating and AC off? Almost never I bet
Makes you realise how much energy is wasted using oil burners with the ac on.
The 2020 models (not available in US) has a 90 mile range & charges at 22KW instead of 7KW goes from 10%-80% in 40 minutes. Wish US would make these available again.
That's the version I got a month ago, after trading in my 2019 smart EV