Next is the 500e’s charging prowess. It’s not a quick charging automobile by any means, with a most velocity of 85 kW. In 35 minutes, the battery will be charged from 0-85% per Fiat. A Level 2 charger as you’ll probably want at home takes six hours for a full cost. It’s strictly confined to town with these metrics. Fiat additionally has no plans to combine the 500e into Tesla’s Supercharger community, additional limiting charging choices. 

149 miles of vary additionally makes it one of many shortest vary EVs on the North American market. For comparability, the outgoing Chevy Bolt can go upwards of 259 miles on a cost. The 500e is precisely a metropolis automobile and nothing else. If it is advisable enterprise exterior the confines of dense city environments with plenty of charging stations, the Fiat 500e can’t take you.

The first 500e accessible within the U.S. is the RED particular version made for the RED AIDS charity. Later within the third quarter of 2024, in the meantime, we’ll additionally get the “Inspired By” variations that embody a extra highly effective JBL sound system, further driver help options like adaptive cruise management and lane-keep help, and some extra colour decisions. The “Inspired By” will retail for $36,000. I didn’t drive any of the upcoming variations of the 500e, though two Inspired By vehicles had been current on the occasion.