Fiat Panda Elettra

The Fiat Panda Elettra is the electric version of the first generation Fiat Panda, presented in February 1990 and sold from the Geneva motor show of March 1990. Fiat presented it as the first electric car made in series. It was a conversion of the petrol car with a 9.2 kilowatt electric motor in its first edition, a two-seater with twelve lead batteries of 172 amp-hours and the charger laid flat in the boot, which cut the load space. A full recharge took eight hours from an ordinary 220 volt 16 amp socket, and the range exceeded 100 kilometres at 70 kilometres an hour. It drew on work done on the Lancia Y10 that won the 1989 Quattroruote 4E Grand Prix. At launch it cost 25,600,000 lire, nearly triple the basic petrol Panda 750 Young, and with no state subsidy it stayed in the catalogue until 1998 with a few thousand sold, mostly to administrations.