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10-03-2012, 12:53 PM
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We're getting our first drive in the 2013 Smart ForTwo (http://www.autoblog.com/smart/fortwo/) Electric Drive (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/electric+drive/) today, and Smart (http://www.autoblog.com/smart/) just announced pricing for the latest version of its all-electric (http://www.autoblog.com/category/electric/) minicar. The starting price for the ForTwo ED Coupe will be $25,000 (*plus delivery fees), making it the lowest price electric vehicle in the U.S. from a mainstream automaker - and that doesn't even include the available $7,500 federal tax credit (http://green.autoblog.com/tag/federal+tax+credits/).
With the tax credit figured in, the starting price works out to $17,500. Add in the required $825 destination charge and up to $2,200 for a home charger, and the 2013 ForTwo ED Coupe will essentially start at just $20,525 - $1,100 cheaper than the Mitsubishi i-MiEV (http://www.autoblog.com/mitsubishi/i/). Of course, customers who already have home charging stations can save even more. Smart has said that it will offer two different home chargers that range in price from $1,300 to $1,700, and it is estimating installation will cost somewhere in the $300 to $500 range.
While we do know the starting prices for the new ForTwo ED, options and lease prices have not been announced. For comparison, the previous-generation ForTwo ED had a lease price of $599 a month.
Scroll down (http://motorgen.com/2012/10/03/smart-fortwo-electric-drive-will-be-cheapest-ev-at-25k/#continued) for more information on the 2013 Smart ForTwo ED, and look for it in dealers this spring.Continue reading Smart ForTwo Electric Drive will be cheapest EV at $25,000* (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/03/smart-fortwo-electric-drive-will-be-cheapest-ev-at-25-000/)
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We're getting our first drive in the 2013 Smart ForTwo (http://www.autoblog.com/smart/fortwo/) Electric Drive (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/electric+drive/) today, and Smart (http://www.autoblog.com/smart/) just announced pricing for the latest version of its all-electric (http://www.autoblog.com/category/electric/) minicar. The starting price for the ForTwo ED Coupe will be $25,000 (*plus delivery fees), making it the lowest price electric vehicle in the U.S. from a mainstream automaker - and that doesn't even include the available $7,500 federal tax credit (http://green.autoblog.com/tag/federal+tax+credits/).
With the tax credit figured in, the starting price works out to $17,500. Add in the required $825 destination charge and up to $2,200 for a home charger, and the 2013 ForTwo ED Coupe will essentially start at just $20,525 - $1,100 cheaper than the Mitsubishi i-MiEV (http://www.autoblog.com/mitsubishi/i/). Of course, customers who already have home charging stations can save even more. Smart has said that it will offer two different home chargers that range in price from $1,300 to $1,700, and it is estimating installation will cost somewhere in the $300 to $500 range.
While we do know the starting prices for the new ForTwo ED, options and lease prices have not been announced. For comparison, the previous-generation ForTwo ED had a lease price of $599 a month.
Scroll down (http://motorgen.com/2012/10/03/smart-fortwo-electric-drive-will-be-cheapest-ev-at-25k/#continued) for more information on the 2013 Smart ForTwo ED, and look for it in dealers this spring.Continue reading Smart ForTwo Electric Drive will be cheapest EV at $25,000* (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/03/smart-fortwo-electric-drive-will-be-cheapest-ev-at-25-000/)
Smart ForTwo Electric Drive will be cheapest EV at $25,000* (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/03/smart-fortwo-electric-drive-will-be-cheapest-ev-at-25-000/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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