Hasn't this been known for months now? We need them to bring back the gasoline version.. nobody wants an electric car with poor mileage, no matter how cute it is.
Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
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Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#42Hasn't this been known for months now? We need them to bring back the gasoline version.. nobody wants an electric car with poor mileage, no matter how cute it is.
I do - if it's cheap. 99% of my driving is I'd love to have a small electric car that costs little to buy, little to run, and deals with the vast majority my trips, and have a second car with longer range for the rare times I do long trips.
"Long" for me is to the beach, which is about 100km away, so say 250km round trip range would be excellent - which this car almost does.
But the base price on this seems disproportionately high.
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
70k AUD ~= $47k
Seems really expensive given when these were last in the USA they were offering $99 a month leases for 36 months, and you got the tax credits as though this was a purchased vehicle which nearly covered all of the monthly lease payments.
I don't think there are many places in the world where cars are as cheap as in the USA. The prices in Australia also include taxes and fees, which I don't think is a practice in the states.
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#45$35k !!
Tesla Model 3 base model sells for $39k and gives you 270 miles.
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#46Hasn't this been known for months now? We need them to bring back the gasoline version.. nobody wants an electric car with poor mileage, no matter how cute it is.
VW has sold a million or so eGolfs which had similar range numbers in the latter years.
150 miles is enough for someone who has a 30 mile round trip commute to drive a full work week without doing any charging. 150 mi range is enough for many city drivers to go weeks between charges, or make a trip out of the city for a day/weekend.
Repeat after me: "what I want is not necessarily what others want."
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#47"Brings back" is funny, US market centric. They've had the revamped electric one in Europe since 2021. They stopped exporting to the US in 2019 or so. Now they're bringing it back to the US.
Kind of makes sense that ABC news (American Broadcasting Company) is US centric though :-)
Not to be confused with the other ABC https://www.abc.net.au/, which is Australian centric. It is weird that I now have to think about when I see the acronym, 20 years ago I would have seen it immediately as the ABC in the states, but broadcast TV plays so little role in our life now.
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#48EDIT: in hindsight, i shouldn’t’ve dismissed this as just “oh it hasn’t got good range” . I will try not to be so dismissive in future. This should be good for an average commute in an urban area. Side note tho, remember when the high end cars had below 100 mile range?
$32k USD starting is not what I would call affordable. Even the Nissan Leaf starts lower. This car is honestly a bit of a joke in the US markets even for a small, simple commuter you can do much better here in the EV space. A used 2018 leaf would get more range, charge faster and cost less.
You’re right. I shouldn’t’ve jumped the gun like that.
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#49EDIT: in hindsight, i shouldn’t’ve dismissed this as just “oh it hasn’t got good range” . I will try not to be so dismissive in future. This should be good for an average commute in an urban area. Side note tho, remember when the high end cars had below 100 mile range?
$32k USD starting is not what I would call affordable. Even the Nissan Leaf starts lower. This car is honestly a bit of a joke in the US markets even for a small, simple commuter you can do much better here in the EV space. A used 2018 leaf would get more range, charge faster and cost less.
The Leaf and Bolt both starts at $28k, so this is higher, but not that much higher.
Re: Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range
#50"Brings back" is funny, US market centric. They've had the revamped electric one in Europe since 2021. They stopped exporting to the US in 2019 or so. Now they're bringing it back to the US.
Yes, a local ABC news station in Los Angeles writes news articles assuming an American context for their overwhelmingly American audience. The article also explicitly says it has been available in Europe for four years.
And it was posted on the forums for a US company that requires its client startups work locally out of its US office. I'm puzzled by people surprised to encounter US-centric perspectives, here.