Daimler trick popularized Electric Car

Austin - Daimler AG is the parent branded Smart cars do not seem to want to silence just saw Smart ForTwo sales slowly began to fall in the U.S..

Because Daimler is not losing my mind and will soon launch a program that ForTwo car rentals they named car2go to potential customers feel the efficiency and comfort of this car to the fullest.

Capital of Texas, Austin will become the first city in America to apply the program and at the same time will be a pilot for other cities in the U.S. and major cities around the world.

"Many other major metropolitan areas throughout the world who are interested," said Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche was quoted as saying by Automotive News, Friday (27/11/2009).

In the program, Austin community can select and hire between 200 units 1 provided for the ForTwo and then use it and return again to the appointed place.

Daimler itself has tested this program in the city of Ulm, Germany, in 2008 and a rental fee of 19 cents per minute or U.S. $ 73.40 per day.

With the program, Daimler believes that the public interest to buy the product again ForTwo will increase. For the current sales of small electric cars that look crashes, it is visible from the sale of a dive last month to 70.4 percent from the same month in 2008.

Sales of cars have a power source of the lithium ion battery-powered 30 kW during the first ten months of the year 2009 this was indeed dropped to 36 percent compared with the same 10 months in the year 2008. For a total reached 24,622 units for a full year.

Whereas before leasing program in addition to working on this car, also had ForTwo has a breakthrough with this small car loan for free to consumers in major cities of Europe such as Berlin. Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Pisa, and Rome as well as some cities in America for 4 years or about 60,000 km.

And to further expand the appeal of Smart, Daimler reportedly is considering a second car is larger than the ForTwo model has only 2 seats.

Zetsche leaked that the car is a four-seat car and must have a unique concept as well as Smart. Many of the belief that the four vehicles ForFour has 'killed' in the past 2006 years and never reached mass production stage.