149-mile electric mini returns to US cities at $34,095

Fiat has revealed that for the U.S., the 2024 500e will begin at $34,095, together with the obligatory $1,595 vacation spot payment, and it’ll arrive to U.S. dealerships—and centered on city areas—beginning within the first quarter of 2024.

In U.S. spec, the 500e delivers 118 hp and 162 lb-ft of torque from its single permanent-magnet motor, and it has a 42-kwh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) lithium-ion battery pack. All are primarily equivalent figures to the Europe-market mannequin that was first delivered three years in the past.

The Fiat 500e weighs simply over 3,000 kilos—a light-weight for an EV, and its battery pack weighs a lean 649 kilos. Conserving the battery at a minimal helps not simply obtain a decrease carbon footprint, with much less reliance on earlier uncooked supplies; it also needs to lead to a extra nimble-driving small automotive. 

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

Fiat 500e charging: Speedy at dwelling

The comparatively small battery pays dividends in fast dwelling or office Degree 2 AC charging, too. Fiat says that the 500e can cost on 240 volts at 48 amps in simply 4 hours and quarter-hour. Street-trip DC fast-charging, at a peak 85 kw, takes 35 minutes from 0-80%; with 80% representing lower than 120 miles of vary, it’s clearly set as much as be an city commuter, not a road-trip machine.

Fiat doesn’t checklist a 0-60 mph time for the U.S. 500e, however on the time of its introduction it mentioned the European model (with comparable specs) acquired to 60 in 9.0 seconds. 

City parking is as a substitute its forte, with that super-short profile, what seems as soon as once more to be nice outward visibility, and a 31.5-foot turning circle. The 500e is once more a minicar by U.S. requirements. It measures practically 143.0 inches lengthy, about 74.1 inches huge, and 66.3 inches excessive, and it rides on a 91.4-inch wheelbase. Floor clearance is listed at lower than 4.5 inches, so don’t attempt to take one to the trailhead. 

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

500e could be very tiny by American requirements

The 500e is a four-passenger car by the specs. However its rear seat is once more really compact, and the cargo area supplied behind the rear seatbacks is simply 7.5 cubic toes.

Initially, the 500e will are available in a single trim degree with a pink exterior and black-fabric inside with pink stitching, appropriately known as Crimson. The 500e Crimson additionally consists of automated local weather management, distant keyless entry, entrance armrests, a 50/50-split folding rear seat, rain-sensing wipers, and 17-inch alloy wheels. Devices and a visit pc are offered in a 7.0-inch show, whereas there’s a wi-fi charging pad plus a ten.3-inch touchscreen infotainment system with navigation, satellite tv for pc radio, and wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. 

Regular, Vary, and Sherpa modes present calibrations to match totally different driving fashion, with the Vary mode ramping up regenerative braking for one-pedal driving and the Sherpa mode an eco-focused mode that limits prime velocity to 50 mph and reduces max energy beneath all however full throttle to about 77 hp. 

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

2024 Fiat 500e

Why is the Fiat 500e again now?

It was all the time a little bit of a puzzle when the model determined to not carry the second-generation 500e to the U.S. Fiat revealed this technology of the Fiat 500e for Europe in March 2020—as a part of the primary full redesign for this retro-styled metropolis automotive since 2007—and at the moment the model didn’t plan to carry it again to the U.S.

The primary-generation Fiat 500e wasn’t even offered in Fiat’s dwelling Italy. It was solely supplied in California and Oregon, and was offered from the 2013-2019 mannequin years. Sure, the little electrical automotive that began as a compliance automotive to allow extra profit-generating vehicles had grow to be identified for its bargain lease deals—as little as $49 a month, in 2016. And it was a lot of a loss chief that Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, on the time, recommended individuals not purchase it. However the fun-to-drive Fiat 500e had additionally grow to be a plaything that folks with far dearer tastes (and budgets) selected to drive into the town. 

Final yr, Stellantis defined to Inexperienced Automobile Stories that this time the Fiat 500e’s mission, for all 50 states, is straightforward: to experiment with the way it sells EVs forward of different high-stakes fashions, just like the upcoming Ram 1500 REV electrical truck and Dodge electrical muscle automotive.

This time, Fiat doesn’t plan to supply deep reductions on the 500e, as each U.S. sale can be one much less European sale.

2024 Fiat 500e

Charging and charity included

At the very least for this primary yr, and for this mannequin, Fiat is sweetening the deal, together with the selection of a house Wallbox charger or cost credit by means of the corporate’s Free2Move Cost service aggregates chargers from numerous networks. 

Fiat says that for every one in all these Crimson Version fashions, the automaker will make a donation “​​to help life-saving packages the place injustice has enabled pandemics to thrive.”