Smart Will Have A Mungil Size EV In The Future, Fortwo Successor?

Smart #1. (Doc. Smart Automobile)

JAKARTA - An automotive brand from Germany, Smart now opens its opportunities to present the latest electric vehicles. More interestingly, this model is referred to as the successor to Fortwo, which is known as a tiny-dimensional car.

Smart European CEO Dirk Adelmann, said that his party was working on the model as a successor to Fortwo.

"Fortwo was turned off two months ago. It would be great if this model had a successor, we were looking at it," Adelmann was quoted as saying by Autocar, Tuesday, July 16.

Adelmann added that Fortwo's successor will be very good because demand for compact-dimensional city cars is so high, especially the European market.

The proposal regarding this vehicle already exists and will be named 'Project 2' internally. It is possible that this model will be named #2 when produced. Of course this has the potential to cause confusion because its size is much more compact than #1.

Adelmann added that the manufacturer has prepared number 2 in a planned manner because it is an iconic number of this brand and makes a lot of sense to use for Fortwo's successors. As the Smart lineup increases, the manufacturer will carry odd numbers for SUVs and SUVs and even numbers for other style models.

However, Smart is now trying to bring it to the production phase so that it can be sold in a profitable way.

In order to smooth out the plan, the brand is looking for partner companies to share development and production costs.

If you share this platform with your partners, then you can also share investment costs and production locations, and so on, and this is starting to make sense. We are still in evaluation," added Adellman.

Brand Smart saat ini memasarkan dua produk yang dijual secara global mulai dari #1 hingga #3. Keduanya merupakan produk EV murni mainstay dari mereka ini yang dikenalkan pada 2022 lalu.

Smart #1 has electric motors measuring 268 dk and 422 dk for the Brabus version. Meanwhile, the battery carries a nickel-cobalt-manganese 66 kWh which is capable of reaching a distance of 420-440 km in one charge.

Meanwhile, Smart #3 carries the same electric and battery motorbike as its brother. Regarding the security side, this EV crossover obtained five stars from the Euro NCAP test.