If you're after an electric hot hatch, is the new Abarth 500e the answer? Well, no, but it's still very good ⚡️
Bearing in mind this world is no picnic for any of us at the moment, you might not be ready to spare much of a thought for the plight of the automotive engineer. I think you should, though. And it’s those charged with creating the new breed of small, electric hot hatches that I worry about the most – a task I wouldn’t want for all the tea in China.
Think about it this way. If they stuck a much more powerful motor in the Abarth, that would drain the battery quicker. And when the Fiat 500e’s range is only 200 miles to begin with, you don’t really want it to be much less. To add more power, then, would also mean a bigger battery than the standard car’s 42kWh battery, but where do you make room for that? The 500e is a city car, remember.
Now, those outputs are less than the petrol Abarth 695 musters, so the 500e is slower from 0-62mph with a time of 7.0 seconds. But instead of fretting about that, they decided to focus on what’s important to a typical hot-city-car driver. The acceleration between 25-37mph, for instance, which is a second quicker than the ICE model. Some of that comes from the instant hit of motor torque, but also because they tweaked the final drive over the regular Fiat 500e to 10.2:1.
Out on the road, it works much better than the 695. Without the sound generator on, it’s very quiet and even manages to suppress wind and road noise to an acceptable degree. Its softer, less reactive suspension does a fine job of soaking up bumps as well – to the point that I’d describe the Abarth 500e as comfortable.
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