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18 messages, Last post on Jun 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
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| Check out this ultra quiet, lightning fast upcoming hybrid electric from Mitsubishi. What do you think? | |
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under development by Mitsubishi. I like how quiet it's said to be and how well it handles, due to its low center of gravity with the battery packs located low-center in the all-EV. I will be watching the development of this car very closely, indeed. I would like a longer range but this one has my rapt interest. I even like its look, it's grown on me. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Apr 26, 2008 7:52 pm) |
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but I don't see another one on the U.S. market I would reach for at all right now. Actually, Mitsubishi hasn't decided if this one will even cart across the pond for our purchase quite yet. BYD of China makes a midsize crossover called e6 that has a decent body design but with Chinese built rigs there are several thousand questions that come to mind... as far as homogolation, passing crash testing, basic reliability questions, etc. I think Mitsu can squish the car past EPA and CARB(with a decent amount of intense engineering involved) but passing crash tests with 5 stars might be a challenging endevour, indeed. I think Mitsubishi will try and strike compromises with U.S. regulators and make it work. They'll get there...short of retrofitting the '08 Lancer GTS to all-electric for about $15,000-$20,000(ouch!) this i-MIEV looks like the next best thing for my wife and I to consider. ICE propulsion is looking very long-in-the-tooth to me lately. Wonder why that might be. |
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Apr 30, 2008 1:15 am) This car has very similar capabilities to the i-MIEV. It has already passed European and US crash tests. Given the investors in this company I believe they are very credible. I've read other articles which state this car may be produced in So. Calif.. At $25k it might be a little more expensive than the i-MIEV but until these cars actually make it to the market their price is just a guess.
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Replying to: tpe (Apr 30, 2008 4:55 am) The article said it had met EUROPEAN safety requirements. I didn't see anything about the US, or any plans to import it. And it requires an additional $200 per month lease on the battery...
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Replying to: stevedebi (Apr 30, 2008 7:56 am) There are a lot of recent articles out there about the Think City. I should have probably provided a more comprehensive example. Think City TH!NK city meets all European and US federal motor vehicle safety requirements. Sales other than initial trial and demonstration projects will begin in The North American market in 2009. |
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I must've skipped over the portion of the article that mentions the $25,000 price tag. Oh, well, could be worse than that. I still long for more range than 100 miles(i-MIEV) or the 125 miles of the Think car. I didn't see that Think engineers had come up with a 1/2 hr re-charger that Mitsu engineers offer with the sale of the i-MIEV, which enables one to get a 80% re-charge. That is an attractive offer, I would just need to find someplace in Tucson, to make a for instance here, if my wife and I take our i-MIEV to Tucson(80 miles west of us), to re-charge. So we could drive back to our little cowtown back east a bit. I think that this type of thing could be worked out. For instance, my son mentioned that Portland, OR, offers an electric car re-charging station. I never learned of that when we were still living in the Pacific NW, but, knowing some of the free-thinkers over there, I don't doubt that such a station already exists like that. I think that I could probably go to the lone Mitsubishi dealership in town and re-charge at an electric port there. In fact, if I am serious about buying an i-MIEV in a few years(I'd say I'm serious enough to inquire a whole lot more about the little city car), it would behoove me to call up Wildcat Mitsubishi in Tucson and shock them with an inquiry like that. "Can I charge up my little i-MIEV at your electric re-charge port on the side of your showroom in 2010?" "Our what?" 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Apr 30, 2008 10:30 pm) I'm a little suspect of the i-MIEV's claimed range of 100 miles given that it only has a 16 kWh battery pack. The Think City's battery pack is 28.3 kWh. Although at 1379kg. the Think probably is a heavier car. |
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there is a car maker in China, BYD, that makes their own car batteries. They made themselves famous by building state-of-the-art cellphone batteries for the masses. But they also build petrol and electrically-driven automobiles and if the car needs batteries for propulsion, they build those batteries themselves. They make a new crossover they showed at the Beijing Auto Show called the e6. It is attractive and it is all-electric. It can go 186 miles before needing a re-charge. And yes, they also provide a quick charger like Mitsubishi does with their i-MIEV. This one goes 100mph and goes in to the production next year for the Chinese market. Whether BYD will bust in to the U.S. automotive market or, might I dare say, when they bust out in to the U.S. automotive market depends on their aggressiveness to work on passing crash-testing and homogolation work to ready them for our car market. But I have indeed read that BYD plans to export to the U.S. And more than one model is coming here, too. By the time I am ready to trade for an all-electric rig, the specs will be much more user-friendly and comfortable for cruising a little longer distance. Let me put it this way, there are a lot of people like me who want an all-electric rig in America. It would behoove carmakers, even Chinese ones like BYD, to prepare an EV (or three) for the American market. |
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