Daimler and Vectrix working together on 2014 smart electric scooter ..

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Daimler and Vectrix working together on 2014 smart electric scooter ..

I was contacted by Vectrix with this press release issued by Daimler this morning. I've replied asking a bunch of questions that hopefully will be answered (Jeff Simpson - if you're reading this - reply to my email please ;-)

Stuttgart - smart is expanding its portfolio of electrically driven vehicles designed for urban traffic by cooperating with the two-wheeler specialist Vectrix.
smart’s electric portfolio is continuing to grow. In addition to the smart electric drive and the smart ebike, in 2014 the smart scooter will be launched on the market. With the introduction of a zero-local emission scooter smart as a provider of innovative mobility solutions for the city is offering a complete portfolio of electrically driven vehicles for short, medium and long distances of up to 140 kilometres.
smart is developing and producing the electric scooter in close cooperation with its partner Vectrix, an innovative and worldwide leading brand in the electric two-wheeler industry. The company that was founded in 1996 in Rhode Island, USA, has been building electric scooters in series for years and has great expertise in this field.

“smart and Vectrix are both pioneers of electric mobility for the city”, says Dr Annette Winkler, Head of smart. “The smart scooter will be a true smart and we want to make it an icon of urban mobility – just like the smart fortwo.”

The appearance of the smart scooter prototype that was presented at the Paris Motor Show in 2010 will be further developed by smart. The new electric smart scooter will offer unique features seen for the first time in this vehicle category.

http://media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921-656186-1-1555190-1-0-0-0-0-1-11700-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0.html?TS=1354206464187

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Re: Daimler and Vectrix working together on 2014 smart ...

Is working with Vectrix a good or a bad thing for the Smart E-Scooter?

I ask this from the perspective of complexity: I assume VX1 is in many ways more complex even than the Mitsubishi i-MiEv, with all it's CAN communication and various modules distributed about the bike, half a dozen temperature sensors all required to keep the bike running, software that ruins the battery systematically, etc.

When I just recall all the various hickups and minor to major disasters I have read on this forum about the VX1 over the last two years I am led to believe a reputeable autombile manufacturer, the oldest one in the world acutally, should shy away from this bike's developer and manufacturer so as not to be associated with it and risk bringing another two-wheeled electric lemon to market under their own sub-brand name...

Sorry for the harsh words, all ye content VX1 users, but we are talking "automotive" here, not innovative "first electric maxi scooter" startup ;-)

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2017 Zero S ZF6.5 11kW, erider Thunder 5kW

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