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Linkhttps://www.evilution.co.uk/mod/smart-ed-electric-drive-info.htm Copy to ClipboardThe Smart 451 Fortwo Electric Drive (ED)
I have been getting a worrying amount of messages asking why there are only a few specific pages or information about the electric drive version of the fortwo 451. I’d like to go on record with the 2 answers that I have been sending back to the people who ask.
Firstly
It’s pretty much just me adding stuff to this site, 1 person. I have a job but it’s not a super well paid job so I just can’t afford to own every smart car variant. Smart don’t give me cars, I don’t get a discount, I have to buy them all just like everyone else. I did eventually save up and bought one locally for a very good price and luckily for you lot, after about 4 years, things started going wrong so I was forced to take it apart and repair certain items. These are now pages on the website.
Secondly
This is hard to explain without sounding like I’m treating you like a spaz, so I’m just going to treat you like a spaz.
Exactly what info do you want? What mods do you want to achieve?
The hand manual tells you a lot about the car and apart from the motor and batteries, IT’S THE SAME CAR!
If you want to change the panels, it’s the same as the petrol model.
If you want to change the brakes, it’s the same as the petrol model.
If you want to lower the suspension, it’s the same as the petrol model.
If you want to know what bulbs you need, it’s the same as the petrol model.
What About The Motor And Batteries?
Yeah, all of that stuff is now on the website.
Remember that time you short circuited the battery on your petrol model and you got a bit of a spark and maybe the fuse blew? Short circuit the drive battery on this and you are flying through the air, maybe with less skin and fingers than before, possibly on fire or dead.
Searching For ED And EQ Specific Pages
The way our tag words work, searching for “ED” or “EQ” won’t work very well. It’s because the search will even look at parts of tag words so searching for EQ will bring up pages tagged with the word “sequential” because there’s an EQ in the word. This is much worse for searching ED.
Even putting a space after ED won’t help. So….
Search for electric drive and then what thing you are looking to change.
There Must Be Some Differences
Yes, they are covered by your hand manual. However, here is the fuse layout.
What About Difference in the 451 Gen 2 & Gen 3?
This has got to stop, even Wikipedia has the 451 ED down as 2 generations.
The same design car CANNOT be 2 different generations. If a car is revised, it is an update (internal) or facelift (external).
The 450 ED was generation 1 and was tested in 2007.
The 2009 451 ED was generation 2.
The 2011 451 ED was generation 2, mark 2.
The 2017 453 ED was generation 3
Just because the 2011 model had a motor and battery made by a different company and the ECU had slightly updated software does not make it a different car. The petrol and diesel model of the 451 aren’t classed as different generations of car but the have different engines, fuel and software.
So, stop doing it. I’m looking at you Americans.
And whilst I’m at it. If you buy a car in 2017, it CANNOT be a 2018 model. I don’t know why this bullshit has started in the US apart from to try and trick idiots into thinking they are getting something better and more futuristic than they really are.