Mitsubishi builds electric vans

Mitsubishi Motors is building next to the four-door compact car i-MiEV electric vehicle now another. The minicab MiEV is a small van and is currently being tested by a Japanese shipping company as a fleet vehicle in practice. Initial customer orders are now being accepted for the electric-vans in Japan.

The plan is in the closed-form design as well as in flatbed truck offered to take either of two different battery versions with 10.5 kWh and 16.0 kWh on the market. The range in the Japanese JC 08-cycle so that is 100 kilometers, or 150 kilometers. The Mitsubishi Minicab been produced since 1966 as a small-vans in Japan and has been modernized and adapted to the requirements.

Euro NCAP: Four-star Mitsubishi i-MiEV

The European Euro NCAP organization has the Mitsubishi i-MiEV undergo a crash test. The electric vehicle during the test showed all his strength and was awarded four stars. The electric motor and lithium ion batteries are the Mitsubishi Electric Scooters between the two axles with a wheelbase of 2.55 meters (total vehicle Length 3.40 meters) below safely.

In the crash test results from Euro NCAP says: "No problems were found in the electrical system on the vehicle. The batteries were not damaged. "The good results in Euro NCAP test was previously occupied by the ADAC. At the front end crash test absorbed the impact (impact speed 64 km / h, 40 percent overlap) good: The survival space for the occupants survived.

Mitsubishi i-MiEV offers test drives

At approximately 200 locations in Germany are now test driving the Mitsubishi i-MiEV possible. Thus, the electric car for interested customers fully available. It is distributed through a network of agency partners, which will be expanded gradually to around 400 locations. Next, everyone interested the opportunity to test within about 30 miles a Mitsubishi i-MiEV.

Each agency partner can be certified as Green-proven Mitsubishi Mobilty Center. Condition is a multi-day, special training for electric vehicles, which is offered by the Mitsubishi Trade Organization. From now on test drives the Mitsubishi i-MiEV at: http://www. imiev. uk / to be posted.

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• Mitsubishi i-MiEV available in 15 European countries; more coming soon (18/01/2011)
• Mitsubishi i-Miev - Home Charged (05/11/2010)
• Mitsubishi i-MiEV headed to Russia (05/02/2011)

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