Earlier this year Edmunds reported seeing an electric smart at Tesla's HQ in San Carlos.
"Smart Fortwo EV Test Coming to the U.S." Green Car Advisor
We spied an electric Smart Fortwo prototype that we weren't supposed to see while on a visit recently to the Tesla Motors facility up in Northern California.
We don't know if this means that Tesla is angling for a contract to convert gas Smarts to EVs for a local dealer who wants to get a jump on the crowd, or was showing Smart engineers a prototype being developed for the automaker itself.
But we do know now that Smart USA hopes to begin testing a small fleet of Smart EVs here sometime next year.
Recently we hear the same story from Street Import Online
SMART Car without a tail-pipe at Tesla Motor's in San Carlos*-*Street Import Online - Automotive News, Sports & Show Coverage
A SMART car was recently seen at Tesla's San Carlos facility plugged into a Tesla charging station.
How do we know this SMART car wasn't the standard SMART vehicle? It was
plugged into a Tesla branded charging station, the very same charging station that the Tesla Roadster uses.
I spoke with the receptionist at the San Carlos facility and she said that a couple of employee's have smarts but that it wasn't something the company was working on. She was very friendly, straightford and didn't seem like she was giving me a company line. However, the more I dig around, the more skeptical I am about her story.
Thoughts?
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