Mitsubishi iMiEV five-door e-car
Posted August 15th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
Review Much midnight oil was burnt at Register Hardware while deciding just when and with what we should begin our Leccy Tech car tests. Try as we might, we just couldn’t convince ourselves that battery powered quadbikes like the G-Wiz or Think City were the place to start. Nor could we rustle up much enthusiasm for third-party modifications like the Electric Car Corporation’s battery powered Citroën C1.
Mitsubishi’s iMiEV: a proper electric car, at last
So we decided to wait for a dyed-in-the-wool electric car from a major car maker, and that car is the iMiEV from Mitsubishi, a leccy city car that will go on sale in the UK in limited numbers at the end of the year. It’s made of good old-fashioned steel and won’t fold up like a wet cardboard box if it’s involved in an accident.
The iMiEV’s exterior is frankly something of a love or hate affair, though our test car was hardly flattered by all the advertising and information logos that Mitsubishi had plastered all over it. Of course, the basic shape, with its rather bulbous cabin and extremely short front and rear overhangs, has nothing to do with the specific needs of electric propulsion since it’s carried over from the petrol-driven Mitsubishi ‘i’ city car, a vehicle not available in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
