Mitsubishi i MiEV Trial To Extend To Australia

Mitsubishi i MiEV
Jan 31, 2009
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Mitsubishi has announced that it will be extending the trail of its all-electric i MiEV compact car to Aussie roads. Two cars will be shipped Downunder in February and will make their grand entrance at the Melbourne Motor Show on the 27th of that month.

After the Show, the i MiEVs will embark on a tour of Victoria, New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia. Once the tour is complete, one vehicle will be put on display while the other will be handed over to journalists, government authorities, fleet buyers, Mitsubishi dealers and city officials to test drive and assess.

Mitsubishi i MiEV

The primary objectives of the trial are to determine its suitability for the local market and to examine what infrastructure is in already in place (or would need to be in place) to accommodate it.

Given that there are currently next-to-no commercially-available EV's scooting about in Australia, we're guessing there's still a fair amount of work to be done before we see more cars like Mitsubishi's battery-powered city car on our roads. Still, if the i MiEV can work for the Kanagawa Police Department then surely it can work for us, no?

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  • scientific earthling [reply]
    1 year ago 0 points
    Just 2 cars will do nothing, not even test the suitability of these vehicles. The mineral fuel lobby is extremely strong in Auz. Our solar and wind energy companies are falling victim to this group, dedicated to the destruction of our species. No they will not destroy our planet, it will recover and new species will inhabit it, hopefully they will be a lot more intelligent than home sapien.
    • Jamo [reply]
      1 year ago 0 points
      I agree
  • Gidge [reply]
    1 year ago 0 points
    The MiEV is only as environmentally friendly as the source of the electricity and we run coal power plants, It doesn't matter whether the emissions come out of the exhaust pipe or the power plant. That makes the MiEV arguably the most polutant vehicle on Australian roads.

    For electric cars to become mainstream and environmentally friendly we'd have to generate a lot more power and do it in a cleaner manner. Only way to make that happen is to go nuclear.
    • Endangered Primate [reply]
      1 year ago 0 points
      Typical BS here, "Geo Thermal Baseload" ever heard of it.
      Even if the Elec vehicle was charged from a coal plant it would still be 33% less poluting than Petrol. Electric vehicles have about a third of the parts of a combustion engine and last longer. Nuclear Energy gives you cancer - did you know that Gidge. Have you ever read a book?
  • Macsporan [reply]
    1 year ago 0 points
    I'm afraid that with nuclear the cure is worse than the disease.

    The only way forward is solar (this country could have been designed for it), wind, tidal and geothermal.
  • James [reply]
    1 year ago 0 points
    I'd buy one, I think they are great. People seem to want big steps, but everything is achieved through small steps.

    They should have been here 10 years ago.
  • Andrew [reply]
    1 year ago 0 points
    I'd buy it too as long as it wasn't too expensive. I've been looking to buy an electric car in Australia for quite a while and the blade runner is just too expensive.
    If we all take up the government rebate on home solar power, it would be reasonably good for the environment.
    Let's just pray it is not too expensive. Those battery packs cost a mint. I hope they last a while.

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