Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car to Go Global

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Are they posting any data about expected MSRP?

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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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.

¿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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The electricity can come from your own solar panels, thermal solar, wind, hydro , natural gas, syngas etc. It does not have to come from coal or nuclear. A small liquid fuel alternative engine should be optional. Maybe just an add on generator that could be stored, and run when parked, or moving.

The concept does sound superior to any other vehicle. No transmission to lose power, better traction, lower center of gravity, less weight, etc. Would it be able to run with 1,2, 3 wheels, if necessary.

This car would be dream car in India. In india cost of oil price too high. if you charge the car in the night it will be less impact on emissions becuase, percentage composition of wind energy, hydro enrgy goes up. In peak hours more fossil fuels are burned. Ultimately, we need to go electric to save the planet and also increase the mix of electricity generation like- Solar, wind, hydro to save the planet..I am waiting for the launch of the vehicle and will be the first lot customer irrespective of the price tag..

How amusing that people think burning coal and transmitting the power through wires with resitance losses is somehow Green, as compared to the much cleaner burning gasoline powered vehicle with a higher overall thermodynamic effieciency. Maybe when the mercury from the coal pollution mutates thier children, and all the tree's in the great smokey mountains die from ozone and nitous oxides their opinions will change.

What do you do in this car if you have to drive more than 81 miles?

Myself... I have used ultra-clean hydro-electricity... all my life... and I an' no whipper-snapper.... to be sure.... so it's it's been a while... that's right... and I am plumb tired of all the dang fools that put down new or prospective ultra-ultra extra-clean electric vehicles for being actually "polluting".... just because their own electricity generates pollution at its creation. To them I say.... what are you doing with your lights on? Are you using a lap-top... or a polluting desk-top computer? Put up or shud up.... turn off the juice.... you polluting fool!

As with regard the new little Mitsu..... man... I love this little car .I remember how my first car was a used and well beat up Renault 2cv.... while it had four doors and seated four.... boy, was it small. It was way way cool, though, too. It was a fun fun car. And this new all electric Mitsu would be absolutely fantastic. While going to Seattle by way of the freeway would be no problem.... getting back home could be.... considering the distance. But... I could, alternately, take the ferry straight across the Sound.... and... doing that would easily enable me to go where all I would want that day. So... this new little car could be just right.... for... me.
thing gets.... I plan to say.... "A thousand.... maybe more!"

Can't wait for this car - I will charge it with solar panels on my garage, think of it - no more gas and free energy for life!

Thanks.,
Tony

Man this thing is butt-ugly. I wouldn't drive it if you gave it to me. The Volt on the otherhand...

There has been a lot of BS about all this tech being available for years but that's a crock. It has all been there except the batteries. As an electronics engineer I can tell you that they have been working hard on battery technology for decades and only now are they beginning to be viable, though expensive. The reason the Tesla costs $100K isn't the mag wheels after all!

Just look at the performance that's being quoted by most plug in hybrids; 40 miles on batteries? Does that sound like world class performance? Don't get me wrong, they will make great commuter cars and will get great mileage but after 40 miles the gas engine kicks in to recharge, at which time it's basically a high mileage gas car.

Since I'm only about 15 miles from town and plan to add solar panels in a year or two my next car will probably be the Volt but the problem is that all this stuff always seems to be perpetually two years off. In the electronics field I've heard that all too often.

Still testing and testing... its just a business strategy by the company to increase the market value of the wonderful car using the price mechanism as considered by the law of demand and supply. If the government concerned wishes, it might subsidised the company or giving them incentives to increase production. Well its another thing that the productionm has not yet been launched. We are demanding it. This is the petrol which I think will alight the production considerably.

Or if the Chinese get that BYU(sp?) car to market in Europe it will motivate them. Spec wise it has the volt beat already and will be even more mature when volt is available. We just need to see if it bursts into flames or falls apart when it hits a speed bump.