# Fiat 500e

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Fiat 500e and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a practical, good-looking small electric car that does its job well around town. Critics distrust Fiat's reliability and find it expensive.

## Why people recommend it

- Good looks and physical buttons (2 comments): "every single other function in the car has a physical button. It is also absolutely gorgeous" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689072)) "Good looking but also a quite expensive one!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962258))
- Practical and does its job (2 comments): "Those cars are also just very practical for a lot of people." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50056699)) "does it's job without issue, what's not to love?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150981))
- Good for city and highway (2 comments): "Range was small but it was perfect for around town, and had other cars for other things." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637142)) "it is also a very reasonable highway and city car, it can happily do both" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808417))

## What people warn about

- Distrust of Fiat reliability (2 comments): "I like the form factor of the 500e, but boy do I not trust Fiat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471835)) "Now the car is a brick, and isn't worth fixing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472720))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Tesla vehicles](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tesla-vehicles.md): 209 recommend
- [BYD electric cars](https://hackerapproved.com/p/byd.md): 157 recommend
- [Ferrari Luce](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ferrari-luce.md): 140 recommend
- [Tesla Model 3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tesla-model-3.md): 128 recommend
- [Rivian electric vehicle](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rivian.md): 73 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.fiatusa.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Fiat 500e", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fiat-500e/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).