Fiat 500e Review: The Best EV You Probably Can't Buy - The Cheat Sheet
To this grizzled New Yorker, Los Angeles is the automotive land of milk and honey. It’s also the land of glitz and glamor, a place where people come from all over the world to be starstruck. I liked to think that I was immune from getting starstruck, but on my first day in Los Angeles, I was stopped dead in my tracks, and instantly transformed into your typical gawking out-of-town tourist. See, I saw a Fiat 500e in person. Fiat’s electric version of its popular 500 city car has been around since 2013, but its availability in California and Oregon only have turned the diminutive EV into an automotive unicorn for people who live in the other 48 states. So imagine my surprise a week later when after a lucky chain of events, a Ford F-350 with a shockingly small trailer pulled up in front of where I was staying and left behind a brand new, fully charged 500e resplendent in “Granito Lucente” (read:... As soon as the truck pulled away, I jumped in the car, turned the key (yes, it still has one of those) in the ignition, and… nothing. Source: www.cheatsheet.com
