Fiat Cinquecento Elettra

The Fiat Cinquecento Elettra is the electric version of the Fiat Cinquecento city car, presented in 1992, a year after the petrol range, and shown at the Geneva motor show in March 1992 together with the second series of the Panda Elettra. It was made by converting the petrol car to electric drive, so it was a two-seater with twelve 6 volt battery modules of 200 amp-hours, lead-gel or nickel-cadmium, laid flat in the boot, which cut the luggage space. A direct-current motor of 13.7 kilowatts nominal power drove the front wheels to 85 kilometres an hour, with a range of 200 kilometres on nickel-cadmium batteries and a full recharge in eight hours from a domestic 220 volt socket. It stayed in the catalogue until 1998 and sold a few thousand cars, mostly to public administrations.