{"id":534096,"date":"2010-04-19T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:25:09","slug":"next-generation-smart-cars-will-get-diesel-hybrid-electric-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534096","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Smart Cars Will Get Diesel, Hybrid, Electric Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6935\" title=\"44\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Daimler&#8217;s &#8216;other&#8217; brand. Smart cars just look so&#8230; small and awkward. But, before you hate on me, I do realize that they are\u00a0relatively\u00a0affordable, sip fuel, and remarkably safe for their size. Just&#8230; they&#8217;re not for me. Seems a boatload of other people agree as Smart sales have been plunging off a cliff lately for who-knows-what reason.<\/p>\n<p>Daimler, who owns Smart, has big plans for the small brand of cars though, and those plans include a strategic alliance with Renault-Nissan. Apparently they&#8217;ll be resurrecting the four-person ForFour model (they really need better names) and adding diesel, hybrid, and fully electric drive systems to their vehicles. Smart 2.0 sounds like it might have a chance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/19\/next-generation-smart-cars-will-get-diesel-hybrid-electric-versions\/#more-6934\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VnkEcYFQ3v0:Ttxhu2m92co:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/VnkEcYFQ3v0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Daimler&#8217;s &#8216;other&#8217; brand. Smart cars just look so&#8230; small and awkward. But, before you hate on me, I do realize that they are\u00a0relatively\u00a0affordable, sip fuel, and remarkably safe for their size. Just&#8230; they&#8217;re not for me. Seems a boatload of other people agree as Smart sales have been plunging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}