In a world gone electric-car crazy, Mitsubishi wants to show its mettle by taking over Iceland. The company's i MIEV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) apparently passed its tests in Japan, and starting next year, Mitsubishi plans to roll out a fleet of the electric cars on the tiny, icy island nation. It's a perfect fit, because the car's 100-mile range doesn't matter much on an island where 75 percent of residents live within 37 miles of capitol city Reykjavik.
This is good news for a country that previously pinned its high hopes on using hopelessly impractical hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, now smartly abandoned in favor of electric cars. Good plan, because electricity is easy to come by in Iceland, furnished by the island's ubiquitous geothermal energy resources. Beyond Iceland, the I MIEV is one electro-car to watch, developing so quickly it might just beat the Chevy Volt to a worldwide market.
New York Times, via Treehugger
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By RicksAutoShow at 5:03 PM ON 09/22/08
ok... take this car extend the hood, trunk, width, and add 4 doors and you have the goss132 ev. eerily similar, and goss132 ev is much better. produced in florida.us, and comes in at around 22,000. that is sweeet.
By EVtransPortal at 8:16 PM ON 09/22/08
I recently interviewed David O' Connell of Mitsubishi about the i MiEV Program. You can see it here
http://evtransportal.com/mitsubishimiev.html
By ed scripps at 7:36 PM ON 09/23/08
please send info on i meiv.
By mike at 11:33 PM ON 09/24/08
me like electric cars. for under $20,000.
By David Iceland at 8:21 AM ON 09/26/08
I just can't see that this will work unless we can wire it to electric at home, cos the only "electric stations" are in Reykjavik city and my home town is in 30 miles away and I'm not going to the capital to fill "my new electic car" no way.
By Mr Yea at 11:02 PM ON 10/20/08
It'll obviously have a plug to plug in at home, it wouldn't make sense if the only way you could charge your car was at an electric station.