The Future is Here American Smart Cars Lead the Technological Charge

BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded onto a ship are seen stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China's eastern ... As we said above, Smart cars were sold in the United States as an off-shoot of Mercedes-Benz, which is one of the subsidiaries under German ... The Smart #1 Is an Adorable New Electric SUV That Won't Come to America ... Despite being the sort of vehicle that the US market loves, the Smart ... FRANKFURT, Germany - The tiny two-seat Smart car is a common sight on the congested streets of European capitals, something DaimlerChrysler ... After a nearly decade of selling the Fortwo, a tiny two-seat city car anathema to American tastes, Mercedes pulled the Smart brand from the U.S ... When the tiny Smart ForTwo launched in the U.S. a decade ago, it got a huge boost in sales from both novelty and soaring gas prices. Confirmed: Smart Brand Dead in North America After This Year. Smart went EV-only a couple of years ago. Not surprisingly, that did nothing to arrest its sales ... Smart Cars Are Officially Dead in the United States and Canada. The company will effectively be dissolved in its entirety by 2020. By James Gilboy. The story of the Smart Car can be traced back to the early 90s and the Swiss watch company Swatch, where inventor Nicolas Hayek was interested in the idea. Sadly, despite Smart being reborn as an SUV maker, the company currently has no plans for a U.S. return. Instead, it's just for Europe and China ...