It is reported that the smart genie #1 performance version is built by Mercedes-Benz and its royal tuning car “BRABUS”, in addition to the use of a new appearance package, but also replaced with a more powerful power system.

The front hatch has two cooling air ducts, very muscular performance car style, the roof is painted in red, forming a strong contrast with the gray body, but also uses of red exterior mirror shell, red brake calipers, large size spoiler, extra performance model.

The interior features an exclusive BRABUS Black color scheme, BRABUS imprint on the seat headrests and BRABUS logo with glowing effect on the steering wheel, and the steering wheel is covered with Alcantara and leather.

Powering the new smart Genie #1BRABUS Performance Edition are dual permanent magnet synchronous motors at the front and rear, which can explode 315kW of power and a total peak torque of 543Nm, accelerating from standstill to 100km/h in just 3.9 seconds.

In addition, it adopts a front MacPherson and rear five-link independent suspension. By rearranging the design, the BRABUS Performance Edition has a 50:50 body weight ratio.

The new car is equipped with a smart intelligent four-wheel drive system, which can realize three drive modes: rear-wheel drive, adaptive four-wheel drive and full-time four-wheel drive. It takes only 0.4 seconds to switch from rear-wheel drive to four-wheel drive, so that the vehicle can quickly switch between four driving modes: Eco/Comfort/Sport/BRABUS.

As an all-electric small steel gun, although the acceleration is in the 3-second class, without the engine running sound, it will lose a lot of fun playing with the car. For this reason, smart provides two kinds of simulated sound, including smart original sound and classic two themes.

Among them, the “smart original sound” simulated sound is sampled from the past smartBRABUS fuel version, while the “classic” simulated sound is inspired by the V6 engine, and the whole car is equipped with 13 Beats brand speakers.

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Similar to the regular version, the new car is based on Geely’s SEA pure electric architecture, designed and developed by Germany’s Mercedes-Benz.

The new car has some sporty packages on the exterior and will be powered by dual front and rear motors + an all-wheel drive system with a maximum power of 315kW and 400 horsepower, 0-100km/h acceleration time of 3.9 seconds, peak torque of 543N・m and a 66-degree battery with a range of 500km. In addition, the new car has a “BARBUS mode” and a unique “sound wave”.

The BRABUS Performance Edition has four driving modes: ECO, Comfort, Sport and BRABUS, and the power output in BRABUS mode is certainly preferred on the track, with a very pronounced pushback.

According to the introduction, the new car length, width and height are 4300mm, 1822mm, 1636mm, with a wheelbase of 2750mm.

In terms of the interior, the smart #1 BRABUS Performance Edition features an exclusive BRABUS Black color scheme and red stitching on the seats and steering wheel to highlight the sporty feel of the car. At the bottom of the steering wheel and seat headrests, the vehicle has the BRABUS branding.

In addition, the steering wheel of the smart #1 BRABUS Performance Edition is wrapped in Alcantara and leather and is equipped with metal pedals.

The Smart #1 BRABUS Performance Edition is powered by a front and rear dual-motor four-wheel drive system with 115/200kW front and rear motors and will be equipped with custom simulated sound, a more aggressive electronic control system and a drift mode.

The Smart #1 is equipped with a rear-mounted motor with a maximum power of 200kW, peak torque of 343Nm and 0-100km/h acceleration of 6.7 seconds, while the Premium version is equipped with a Sic permanent magnet synchronous motor and is expected to open for delivery in September this year.

This model is equipped with a 66kWh Li-ion battery, and it takes 7.5 hours to charge 10%-80% with 7.2kW AC slow charging, and can be shortened to 30 minutes with 150kW DC fast charging, and has a range of 500km for BARBUS Performance, 560km for Premium and 535km for Pro+/Pure under CLTC.

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