Ah, the old "wind turbine on the front grill" bit.

I'm all for electric cars, but is Mitsubishi seriously considering this feature?

besides the fact that the front looks like the backside... i think it's very stylish. 29% seems pretty high for solar panel 'payback'. oh and those rims look fit for a samurai. an Eco-Samurai. :)

Wow, this could be the big one. The major car manufacturer 's first electric (and smartly built i.e. solar panel) mass produced vehicle. Mitsubishi has now done it right, we just have to wait and see what they do with it. And Ya I would be curious to find out about the wind turbine, resistance vs actual positive energy return. In any case I would still buy one if it were under 40,000.

Awesome car; DO WANT!!! But, darn, it's just a concept! Why do car companies put so much effort in to AMAZING concepts, but not actually produce them?

Seems to me the turbine would necessarily be taking kinetic energy from the forward motion of the vehicle as drag. I guess if there's a cover over them that opens when your brakes are depressed, it could make sense...but even then it would be a weird way to get regenerative brakes. It would be better to put a turbine on a pole that could shoot up out of the roof. It would be even better to put the turbine on your house, though...why carry the weight of a generator around with you?

Looks like a stretched VW bug - and yeah, I'm gonna' go out on a limb and say that the wind turbines will not be on the production model... I like it though - looks like a cute city-traveler - so as long as you live in a sunny climate to use the panels - should be an option.

The wind turbines only make (a little) sense in two cases. Either when the car is parked at night or on a cloudy but windy day, the turbines will spin and generate electricity like a solar panel. OR, on a downhill coast, you could use the wind turbines as a brake, gathering a bit of energy. But the car would have to rotate an aerodynamic door in front of the turbines at all other times, so the added drag does not negate the small harvesting capabilities above. Gimick, more than enormously practical.

And, if you think you can use the wind turbines while driving to gather energy, take an introductory physics course at the local community college before making this muddleheaded suggestion in print...

Looks like a bug.

Looks cool....but...Lithium-ion??? arent Nanobatteries better???

The wind "turbines" look great. Perhaps they are enough to power the fans to blow the ventilation air into the car that was slowed down by the turbines.

If not, they could surely power some dashboard illumination.

..and I could go on.

Anyway, no the engineers aren't serious. It's just concept to capture hearts and minds.

I don't think the turbines have to be covered. They just have to be braked when the car is in forward motion. They could sit in the air intakes. However, I can't imagine, unless you live in a real windy. that they could even keep the battery charge up.

I felt the surface of my van roof today and it was boiling hot, even though it's white. That's a LOT of energy. And 20 miles a day is a gallon of fuel, or 3 gallons for a Prius! That's a LOT of energy.

Oops, sorry, my math there not so good!

I seem to recall an old cartoon film, where the floating bathtub moved rapidly forward by the force of the water coming up through the drain into the shower head which was pointed astern. Popeye seemed to sail it quite well.

On another extremely disturbing note. The Much hyped 'Tesla roadster', is appearing more and more like a financial 'Scam'. I live where the future factory and funding by our State of New Mexico revenue tax resources are, shall we say 'invested?

All we hear is endless excuses why they don't have a real plan. In other words they don't seem to know how to even build cars.

At least I saw a few 'Tuckers' that actually drove. And don't forget the 1953 'Playboy' built in New Jersey. http://interglacial.wordpress.com/

klok eso esta niti2 ese carro me gustaria para mi ....

For Goodness Sake!

Stop mucking around with these absurd 'concepts' and put a damn EV on the road that's practical and mass produced.

I've been waiting for what seems like ages and I'm sick of waiting!!!

>:(

Defineatly European...certainly NOT American!

Looks great! Wish they sold cars like this in California... I'd probably sell our 2nd car and replace it with something like this.

This is one ugly car!!!

My next purchase will be a solar electric vehicle. I'm waiting for one to come on the market. I'm determined to get off the gasoline grid. If you don't bow to the king, he isn't a king any more.

What will you do with your old 1920,s and 2000, s older cars and trucks that are in your lots today? One needs tobe environmentally friendly with todays standarded. These cars which you are rebulding needs more, more, more, energy, who will be able to pay for the amount that it puts on to your energy bill that you will be making. What I would be concern about are the batteries, which I see in the garbage dump as of today 2007.

Electric vehicle + non-toxic battery + solar roof =neeeded on asia.....perhaps what bugging the car maker is on how they are going to profit from a car that is almost disposable ? Nothing to repair? no service? No parts to sell? No oil or fuel to buy? This will go the way cellphones go...one model after the other...and computer too...many generic maker would surface?

Tired of the smoke in and out of the car...we needed these..

I started my windbggy in 1975 I have solor panels windmills and it works. You talk about wind resistance no big concern because the wind turns the turbans as it goes through. It no more resistance than running into wind with windshield up. I have proved this with windshield up and down. My windbuggy has been in Christmas parades, newspaper and Television. I have enjoyed my windbuggy and so have other people I have not enough money to improve it like I would like but I'm working on it. Ray

it looks like a freakin bug!