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Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car to Go Global

by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 02.29.08
Cars & Transportation

Mitsibishi i MiEV electric car

We recently covered the i-MiEV by Mitsubishi, a small urban electric car with a top speed of 130 kph (81 mph) and a range of 130 km (81 miles) or 160 km (99 miles), depending on the battery pack. TreeHugger readers who left comments seemed to like it, and we do too.

That's why we're excited to learn that Mitsubishi is planning to "bring its i MiEV electric vehicle to mature world markets," which means Japan, North-America and Europe according to the company presentation. Emphasis will be put on Japan, as usual, but for once it won't be the only market that gets a cool new technology. ::Mitsubishi Motors Unveils New Mid-Term Business Plan; i MiEV Goes Global

See also: ::Mitsubishi Keeps Testing, Improving i MiEV Electric Car, ::Mitsubishi Delivers i MiEV Prototypes to Japanese Utilities for Testing, ::MIEV: Mitsubishi Electric 4-wheel Drive Concept Car

Comments (10)

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jump to top Amelia says:

Are they posting any data about expected MSRP?

jump to top Ella [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

Any thoughts on where the electricity will be coming from? It likely going to be coal fired power plants. Curious about the comparison of impacts on this electric car and gasoline cars. How much in green house gases will be released by charging with electricity from coal verses using gasoline.

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jump to top Violet says:

This car is going to be incredible.

The Volt, Prius, Escape H - all rely on a transmission to deliver torque to the wheels.

This car - the wheel - IS the motor. Think on that. Pure simplicity. Thus efficient.

Best regen braking ever. Less weight. Nothing under the hood, except for electronics and batteries.

Heavy wheels making roll-over unlikely. No gears. Independant traction on both front wheels, so no slipping.

It will be very easy to have a small diesel generator under the hood to extend the range by hundreds of miles.

How I love this concept car, let me plug the ways.

jump to top Mark Derail [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

¿Is this the same Mitsubishi Corporation that raped half of SE Asia by clear cutting millions and millions of hectares of old growth rain forests in Sarawak - ?

That's one heck of an environmental record so far and not a very good reputation...

jump to top uh...mark? says:

I'll take one to plug into my solar panels. Maybe I can use the power out of the car on cloudy days.

jump to top surfcam says:

Mark, I think that's the CT version. The specs for this say its a single motor with reduction gear and transaxle to distribute to both rear wheels. Of course they all may be completely different in 2 years.

jump to top Anonymous says:

Another electric car we might be able to buy two or more years from now. These stories have been in the news for years and the cars never show up. What a crock.

jump to top Scott Newsom says:

I'd take one. California has clean power and EPRI has shown that Electric Vehicles are best Well to Wheels and reducing Green House Gases , even if it is old coal doing the power generation.

jump to top Mr. Brody says:

This should have come out 5 years ago. Its amazing to me that everyone is ooohing and aaaahing about this "new" technology. They had a car out that could go 0-60 in under 4 seconds and it was electric. Why aren't those on the road.

Hmmm, maybe the "f"ing oil companies, and gov. had something to profit in oil? That couldnt be. This is all BS. its a step in the right direction. But we should have and electric vehicle that gets better output than we are seeing here.

jump to top Mike says:

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