{
 "id": 69767,
 "slug": "smart-eq-fortwo-range-and-charging-in-daily-use",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/smart-eq-fortwo-range-and-charging-in-daily-use/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "Smart EQ fortwo range and charging in daily use",
 "subtitle": "A week of city driving on a 17.6 kWh battery.",
 "summary": "Driving the Smart EQ fortwo around town in 2018, I easily got 100 kilometres from a charge of its 17.6 kWh battery, about 130 in ECO mode, and charging overnight replaced petrol stops entirely.",
 "topics": [
  "Amsterdam",
  "car",
  "design",
  "environment",
  "experiment",
  "lifestyle",
  "mobility",
  "office",
  "review",
  "work"
 ],
 "date": "2018-11-16",
 "published": "2018-11-16T00:00:00+01:00",
 "created": "2026-08-30T07:13:25.940000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-08-30T07:16:50.986000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2018-11-16_around-town-in-an-electric-car/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "What range does the Smart EQ fortwo get in the city?",
 "text": "The EQ fortwo packs a 96-cell, 17.6 kWh lithium-ion battery into a car of 2.6M long and just over 1085KG. The roughly 60kW (80HP) motor sits close to the rear wheels, which frees the front axle for a turning circle of only 6.95M, and it does 0 to 60KM/H in 4.9 seconds, with no gearbox and no lag.\nOn a normal 230V outlet the battery charges to 80% in at most 6 hours, an optional wall box speeds that up dramatically, and public charging stations are easy to find with a smartphone app. Plugging in at home each evening meant a full car every morning, which cured me of petrol stations.\nA practical note: the trunk takes two boxes of beer through the quick opening rear window, and with the passenger seat included I got to 96 bottles.",
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}