Ownership Verified: 2015 Fiat 500e

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Due to some ridiculously cheap lease deals going on right now, I picked up a new Fiat 500e (full electric) as a city/work commute car while the Audi stays in the garage until weekends and long distance drives.

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I'm also interested in driving impressions. Have you driven the normal 500? I rented one while in California and it was just awful to drive. The engine was made of bees and disappointment.
 
I'd be more interested in a comparison of this to the Nissan Leaf, BMW i3 and Chevy Spark EV than the regular 500.
 
This is exactly what an electric car should be: just for the inner city commute, small, agile. So I have to agree with CrzRsn, it'd be nice to see it compared to similar EVs. However, for that use case, I think the 500 beats the ones mentioned above in that whole "style" category. Personally, I don't very much like its design, but a whole lot of people seem to do.

So erm, yay for you and god damn those orange parts... slightly too aggressive for my taste :D
 
my regular workdays would benefit electric car, but sometimes i do drive over 100km work related driving/day so would need some sort of hybrid :/
 
Rex Luther said:
Cool. How is to drive? I've heard good things.
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Nah its not enjoyable to drive, sits too high and the high rolling resistance small tires have squirrely handling. But my commute to work and weekday driving is stop n go traffic doesn't allow for any fun driving anyway so it doesn't matter. So it works fine for what it is and so ridiculously easy to park on the streets:

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Sevs753 said:
I'm also interested in driving impressions. Have you driven the normal 500? I rented one while in California and it was just awful to drive. The engine was made of bees and disappointment.
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The driving dynamics are not much better than the standard 500 EXCEPT, the weight of the battery packs give the car a more stable lower center of gravity. I think with real tires and better wheels the handling would improve dramatically, but I cannot be bothered to invest that kind of $$$ in this car. The Audi still needs new summer ultra hi performance tires first (been running high performance all seasons during the winter snowboarding season).

Perhaps after I pay my taxes.
 
What kind of deal did you get, if you don't mind me asking? I know a few people who'd really be interested.

I drove one briefly before, and had a great time with it. Other than that good ol' Fiat Catholic school seating position, of course.
 
BlaRo said:
What kind of deal did you get, if you don't mind me asking? I know a few people who'd really be interested.

I drove one briefly before, and had a great time with it. Other than that good ol' Fiat Catholic school seating position, of course.
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Around a little over $100/month x 36 mos and zero down.
 
Congrats! Consider me jealous, I have a soft spot for this car, but live about as far as I can from CA without being buried in snow.
 
Labcoatguy said:
:blink: That is a stonking great deal!
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Yes. That's why the deal was being widely circulated around the Internet and social media. And inventories of the 2015 cars have been disappearing quickly.

I don't know if it's available in all states however.

Do they even sell this in europe outside of (presumably) italy?
 
PelicanHazard said:
It's only for sale in California and Oregon. It's not even available in Europe, last time I checked.
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Not even in Europe, now that's the pretty interesting. Had no idea the availability was that restricted
 
The "12 days of hire car included per year of ownership" sounds like a brilliant idea to make it less of a second-or-third-car only.
 
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