Fiat Topolino Now on Sale in the US From $14,985 — a Street-Legal EV the Size of a Golf Cart, With None of the Highway Ambition
Stellantis brings its smallest EV to American dealers as a factory-certified low-speed vehicle, not a replacement for a real car
Fiat's tiny two-seat EV, the Topolino, is now on sale at select US dealers starting at $14,985 including destination ($13,995 before it), according to Electrek's report from October 29, 2026. That makes it one of the cheapest new electrified vehicles sold in the country — though with a major asterisk on what "vehicle" means here.
The Topolino is federally classified as a low-speed vehicle, not a car, and that classification is the whole story. It's street-legal on public roads with a posted speed limit of 35 mph or less, which in practice means neighborhood streets, beach towns, golf communities and campgrounds — not highways, and not most arterial roads in a typical city. The 2027 model is the first to arrive at dealers already certified street-legal from the factory; 2026 models on the road needed an aftermarket low-speed-vehicle conversion kit to get the same legal status, which Fiat says it will still provide free to existing owners.
Underneath the retro Fiat 500-inspired body is a 5.4-kWh lithium-ion battery paired with an 8-horsepower electric motor, good for up to 46 miles of range and a top speed of 25 mph. A full charge from a standard household outlet takes about five hours. At just over 8 feet long, it's closer in footprint to a golf cart than to any car Fiat has sold in the US before.
Three body styles are available. The base Topolino keeps conventional hinged doors and a fixed sunroof. The Dolce Vita trim swaps the doors for rope-style barriers and adds a cloth soft-top roof, leaning into the open-air, low-speed-resort-town use case. New for 2027 is the Open Air model, which combines the Dolce Vita's roll-back soft top with asymmetrical full doors — a middle ground between the other two.
The Topolino isn't a one-off: it shares its underlying platform with the Citroën Ami, a similar low-speed EV that has sold well in Europe since 2020, and with the Opel Rocks Electric. Fiat's version gets its own sheet metal styled after the classic 1936 Topolino, but the battery, motor and chassis underneath are shared Stellantis hardware already proven overseas.
Fiat is pairing the launch with a logistics perk aimed at exactly the kind of buyer this car targets: complimentary home delivery for anyone within 50 miles of a selling dealer, useful given how few dealers are likely to carry a vehicle this unusual in the first place.
What the Topolino is not: a primary car for most American households, or a highway-capable commuter. At under $15,000 and a 25-mph top speed, it's a second or third vehicle for short, local trips — running errands inside a gated community, getting around a campground, or replacing golf-cart-style transportation in a beach town — priced and positioned well below anything else currently street-legal in the US new-car market.
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