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you know little cars want to be electric cars there's less for that battery to have to lug around that electric motor to have to get up and go well here's a little car that's now an electric car as well the Fiat 500 now in the e-version hundred miles on a charge in real world city driving is what Fiats projecting probably around 70 something in mixed-use highway is harder on TVs than city a charge on a 240 high current circuit which is not unreasonable to have at your home should take about four hours in other words there's not a huge battery in this car because there's not a huge amount of bulk in this car it's a nice benefit of having a smaller platform when you go electric some other changes you're gonna see on this guy obviously there's no transmission in the typical sense so you've just got that interesting little push button deal that reverse neutral drive and park thing you've also got a slicker body on this car they've done a bunch of smoothing and they check out that front grille that's also more of an air flow manager not so much a grille there's no engine in there to allow this car to be slippery or and to help get as much range as possible no more speedometer in that central pod that iconic 500 pod instead you've now got what looks to be about a seven inch round color LCD that has everything in there including all kinds of indications of charge range and things like that there will be a pair of apps that will connect to this car iOS and Android right from the get you can send destinations to the vehicle check its charge state tell it to charge that's pretty routine stuff actually in the easy industry but at least they're not missing a beat one place rent they might miss a beat is they're still using that dopey stock mounted TomTom you stick on the top of the dash I've not been fun of it when I've tried it before maybe the integration is better in this car but I doubt it I got a feeling you're gonna be using your phone a lot no word I'm pricing it's a little early but this car will be out q2 of 2013 that prime means smack in the middle of the year we'll know a lot more then and we'll get one in for a driving test asap you