2012 Detroit: Smart For-Us Concept is a pickup… no really it is

January 10, 2012 Omar Rana 2012 Detroit Auto Show, Concepts, Pickups, Smart For-Us, Smart For-Us Concept

Smart’s niche vehicles have been a hit or miss and to confuse things even more, Smart unveiled their For-Us, which is a pickup concept…yes, you read correctly.

“We at Smart love pick-ups – if they are small on the outside, large on the inside, very safe and extremely comfortable,” said Smart’s CEO, Dr. Annette Winkler. “With the Smart for-us a petrol station is no longer required!”

The Smart For-Us compact pickup is powered by a 55 kW magneto-electric motor, which gets its power from a 17.6 kWh lithium-ion battery back that is said to take a maximum of eight hours to fully recharge when depleted using a basic household socket or charging station.

Now, we’re not exactly sure where Smart plans to go with concept, especially since the demand for compact pickups have literally fallen off of the face of the Earth. But either way, Smart said that we could expect this electric powertrain to find its way into the Smart ForTwo Electric Drive in the spring of 2012.

– By: Chris Chin