Mitsubishi i MiEV Sport - Tokyo Motor Show 2007 : DigInfo

[bored1980]

Mitsubishi just announced that the iMiEV will soon be using Panasonic's new SCiB batteries that recharge in only 15 minutes. Cool. I spend that amount of time waiting in line for gas each week.

[alienhddna]

put the seg motor in this bad boy it will really take oof

[EMOoftheFUNK]

so it last just over 1 hour....fail

[makinamati]

wwell! i never got to watch the full car, only parts of it and it long bearded hostess, terrible filimng

[makinamati]

wwell! i never got to watch the full car, only parts of it and it long bearded hostess, terrible filimng

[MrRivii]

how much money did they spent to find out that the tear drop is aerodinamic?? what a Joke.

[makinamati]

@MrRivii jaja, just what i thoguht but i guess its part of marketing saing bullsh

[offertorycardiacml]

The Oil companies are trying their best to stop free energy ideas from spreading to common ppl.

We need to put an end to this corruption ,start generating your own electricity now.

Visit LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM and get the blueprints . Join the Revolution!!

[clubdore]

Just bouth a other car, was waiting for this one. 

[Cruthrz]

Unfortunately the batteries are useless below-15 degrees Celsius which drastically lowers the range of a full charge. Should be a good car though, for those who live in cities in a warmer climate.

[kawaihui]

It feels like a future model of the Beetle.

[stitch5]

@kawaihui very good analogy

[JUKIO01]

i like it. very futuristic. if we can creat very very very efficient solar panels, and place them on top of EV, no doubt it can charge the car where ever you are, and no doubt drive it as a solar car. and if we can create a battery that can hold alot of electricity, oh man, im getting all excited just talking about it.

[staubfc]

damn, it's ugly lolo

[hotsaucejr1212]

well many of you may be happy to know this car has 680Nm of torque!!!! It should flat out smoke cars to its top speed.

[brandencriner1]

Pretty impressive. 112 MPH and holds a charge for around 124 miles. That's good stuff. I just wonder price.

[LONGLOTTfilms]

Even with any necessary tweaking, why criticize such a positive product?

Why advocate the many who've kept earth & people friendly solutions from the hands of consumers, in the name of greed and personal profit. :-)

[PULSE88]

Mitsubishi Rules! :)

[ekuwa69]

Please don't tell me their serious about the wind turbines in the front of the car. Doesn't anyone realize that just causes drag.

[ratryu]

Too true. Some designer probably didn't know anything about cars and built this thing. They should be selling the Lan Evo MIEV. That would be an awesome car.

[aodan83]

I thought the exact same thing. it's like trying to create perpetual motion. The power coming out of the turbines would be created by the electic movement, so your really just wasting the energy.

[r4nd0mn4me]

The only reason I can see for the fans is the drag is already there. If the fan was not there, it would just be a flat surface for the air to bounce off of. But I would like to see the wind tunnel data for the car with and with out the fans.

[johnny99929992]

Wouldn't the cost of repairs be through he f**king roof?

[r4nd0mn4me]

Repairs for what? How much do you pay to have the oil changed on your laptop? I just had my car in for it's "B" service and it was just under $350. That was for an oil, filter, air filter, and coolant change with a $40 discount. EV's have much less to break down/wear out in a mechanical since. I expect to save about $600 a year on maintenance costs alone.

[alexandercraig]

Good technology. We need it now though, These things always seem to be a year or so away. Vortex you are kind of right in a way in that people should have to be forced to be green, we should be making everyone aware of the changes more every day about the enviroment, that way people will be more willing to go green. Personally Im all for EVs as I have one myself. The real culprits here are the controlling governments and oil ppl who have the power slow EV progresss. They make too much tax on oil

[SparklingJewelz]

Petrol Cars should be banned.

[RequiemVortex]

Sorry, but I think your opinion on petrol cars is wrong. People have the right to drive whatever car they want, they should not be forced to be green, this should be a choice. Second of all electric cars and electric motrcycles are the birth child of petrol cars. Perhaps instead of rubbishing petrol cars you should put your efforts towards promoting electric vehicles, by which I mean supporting their use instead of imposing a law against the use of the former option, the petrol car.

[ratryu]

True people should have freedom to choose what ever car they want to drive. But gas cars produce large amounts of pollution. There should be laws that stop pollution from cars. That way people can drive zero emission cars.

[RequiemVortex]

Sorry, but you've missed the point. I was against regulations on cars. The reason for this being the transfer between petrol and electric cars will happen regardless of regulations, as EV tech improves. Have some faith in humanity, honestly; you don't need to put a gun to anyone's head. Anyway cars aren't the biggest polluter, by far; they're merely a symbol of pollution. They are, ironically, far surpassed by power stations and other forms of industry. They're even beaten by cow flatulance.

[mutantx20]

i wish they would hurry the fuck up and bring this to canada!

[monkai2008]

Very good for share.

I like this video. Thank for share

[niswel]

So where are the production model???

[kostea13]

ev is the future

[sprgirl1001]

niczze!!

[ChocoCoveredRaisins]

cute.

[ultranordic]

Japanese Technology rules!!

[UyLuy84]

Japanese Technology rules!!

[cant7think7clearly]

The idea of microwave wireless recharging sounds interesting.

[niswel]

Yeah, I would like to know how they will make that work!

[gengoodvibe]

I can't imagine the wind turbines would do much in the way of increasing range by recharging the batteries for the engine, but if there is an individual battery for all the electrics (such as a/c, cruise control, and ignition) then it can recharge that to keep the main batteries from otherwise having to waste energy on it.

[gandy74]

Solar concentrated thermal power plants are the future not nuclear.

[Dilekz]

Lol it all sounded good to me, except the windturbines.. :D the energy you put in the engine to get your vehicle forward... And then slow down the vehicle and return the energy by the windturbines?? sounds nuts!!

[r4nd0mn4me]

I would guess thet the wind turbines would only be on when it is coasting or going down hill, like regen breaking.

[Dilekz]

we don't have hills at all here in holland.. =)

[cant7think7clearly]

You're lucky!

[ronmann606]

Hub motors would be great for an off roader. No differentials, transmission, axels, or exhaust to get in the way. Also AWD.

[ronmann606]

Those wind turbines are gimmicky. I bet they improve range less then 1% in optimal conditions.

[atlanticus]

could somebody tell those greenies to make EV that actually look like an ordinary car? why every EV is such a design disaster?

[grillo123456]

fuck you

[phxfreddy]

Why does everyone want to hype the "environmentally friendliness" ? ....when we all know its because gas is going to 5 bucks a gallon !!!

[spasticteapot]

It does require some fossil fuel, but you get quite a lot more energy out.

[fangorn81]

It's not ugly, plus...maybe some of us don't see our cars as an extension of our dicks. It's just a way to get around.

[odiggler]

Amen

[katsumoto31]

man thats true,amen

[ateubrasileiro]

RAmen!

[calistofox]

@fangorn81 A BIG FACT!

[Dantheszabo]

@fangorn81 If that's the case, why'd one need a sport version then? :)

[BALJIT147]

@fangorn81 when you "get around" you shouldn't look like a homo

[torchss]

It looks a lot like a real car, except it's much uglier and much smaller. Might be just the ticket, though, if 6 y.o. kids start driving.

[bigcree]

Now it`s time to demand release of the real energy source which Corporates along with their allies in Military Ind. Complex have highly classifying and silencing Inventors from revealing: Free Energy Generators!!

[zeoez]

how come electric cars are always ugly?

[djpus]

try to take a look at TESLA CAR...then tell me about the aspect...Maybe someone is interested in make it ugly...

[ratryu]

simple, only the ugly electric cars more promotion. Anyways look harder and find the real electric cars that look cool.

[cart123948]

I saw on CSPAN that nuclear is 70 percent of clean energy production. But, only 20 % of total energy production. Nationalize energy. For the right to govern make them give us that energy. Electric is efficient because it has very little waste heat. Nuclear electricity is cheap, cheap.

[cart123948]

The SR 71 goes 4500 MPH. It's engines are tuned to take advantage of sonic pressure waves to compress air at different speeds creating a ram jet.

[mlmr11]

I love this every 10 years or so they placate us with a revived enthusiasm for the electric car.

The oil companies and the automobile companies are in bed together.

They're not going to shoot themselves in the ass with an alternative vehicle.

They could make an electric car every bit as practical as the petrolium based shit box with long lasting batteries.

But the problem with that is people would buy them.

[younginnoble]

amen

[cart123948]

Go see the XR-3 by Robert Q, Riley. It has been developed to take advantage of many vectors that intersect mathmaticly to develop awesome efficiency. Really Google the XR-3

[delboyplonker]

Those wheels are sinfully ugly

[italstal07]

there is already a car powered by only water and any kind..google: stan meyers water powered car..he was assassinated..by poison..

[dannychung1]

the 1999 toyota corolla is the world's ultimate driving machine. i have one that is smelly and beat up, but still runs like a champ.

[BloodTar]

Yuck!

[vtcpdx]

This is no answer. The production of this car will use far more fuel then the maintenance and use of a late model gas car for the next hundred years or or so. Electric batteries store energy from burning coal. And how what will we do with all of the toxic heavy metals in these giant batteries when they are worn out? Zero point energy is real people! We don't need another corporate America false solution. We need government disclosure of the alternative energies they currently use.

[IQ139]

Dude, these batteries are made from lithium-ion, a metal that is non-hazardous and easy to work with. Also, nuclear energy is the future for now.

[shotdonkey]

200 kilometers per charge?

this is still way too little, unfortunately.

this won`t even allow me to drive to the next larger city (zürich) for a late night concert and back.

plus, know that big industry has had magnetic propulsion for AT LEAST 30 years...and they`re STILL milking us for our energy dependency - be it electrical or fossil fuel. so, basically, it`s A SCAM!

[sgtrock44]

But can it stop a 50 caliber round at 300 yards? We need more armored Humvees. Competion for parking spaces is getting fierce out there.

[rxnnxs]

bad name for this car :-) in germany "i miev" sounds like "i mief" what, translating the i in "ich" and "mief" already german means "stink" in english, would then, backtranslated say "i stink" - "ich stinke".

[fxtrader92]

It's a payback for the dreadful "farfenugen" campaign VW foisted on the US in the '70s. (sorry about the spelling). What an absolutely horrible word! I couldn't believe a auto maker actually wanted their cars associated with a word like that. I have yet to buy a VW - maybe because of that word!

[rxnnxs]

yes, i know what you mean. of course the least in america knew what it meant but all spelled it like you did. it is written "fahrvergnügen" and means, freely translated "joyride".

but nice catch on that one :-)

[carnooba]

This is a far better idea, all electric, tha a hybrid. Why recharge the battery with such a grossly inefficient and wasteful system? The energy used to MAKE the engine, electronics, AND gas burned could be FAR more effciently utilized to generate grid power.

[carnooba]

AND, recharging of what, a billion cars, would be done during OFF peak hours,, at NIGHT when generating capacity is greatly underutilized. Imagine all the gas and OIL saved, no tranny oil, no cooling system, toxic solutions etc. etc.

[carnooba]

Perhaps the wind power generators are part of the intake ventilation system? This is necessary anyway and as such, the incoming air is put to work. Not much certainly and this may be a gimmick but hey, they're trying. GM should be so unaffected by Big Oil.

[carnooba]

What I would like is a Corolla wagon style. To me, this would be the perfectly sized, utilitarian vehicle. AND, they could ALL be made silver to save on air conditioning in the summer and still allow good visibility in winter.

[bunnybooties]

I like that it is solar-powered too.:D

[wlv888]

Looks like a knockoff of Porsche.

[fxtrader92]

This would be great for me as a commuter car. I go about 75 Miles per week. And in SoCal, the sun would recharge the battery a lot.

[brianasap]

There are some aspects of this car that can

be criticized - EG. wind turbines and solar

panels. The solar panels will improve with

later releases. The turbines appear a strange

addition. Overall however this is a great

step forward for BEV's. The writing is on the

wall and it is up to us to embrace it. Brian

[ManRayDali]

I want that right now!

It's perfect... Compact size, awesome technology, futuristic styling & aerodynamic body for high efficiency. The ability to connect to your home network for data exchange is also a really nice feature. A very impressive concept car! Please put it into production ASAP!!!

[wendellsaddress]

if those turbine generators on the grill were to produce a surplus of electricity, then the car would be able to run forever...

it's fucking stupid to have them because there's such thing as the conservation of energy

[stopcrazypp]

The turbine generators are a crude sort of air braking. It is designed to only generate energy as you are braking, that way you gain lost energy similar to regen braking. It wouldn't make sense to have them spinning all the time; the drag would consume more energy than the generators can make. It's an interesting idea, but I doubt you will get much energy from it compared to regen braking (& even that you don't get much energy back).

[01DOGG01]

Yeah those turbines are a complete waste of space, material, and weight. Only put there so they can make it seem more eco-friendly.

Why not generate power through braking instead?

[vnnumber1]

Wow it seems all of you guys here are smarter than Mitsubishi engineers.

[01DOGG01]

Part 1:

Wow it seems like you don't know shit.

The minimal power generated by those tiny turbines would far outweigh their weight and the drag caused by them. Removing them and implementing a more aerodynamic design would be far more efficient. The only time they're generating more energy than they're costing you, is under braking. And if you want to use two small fans for stopping your car in order to save energy, you better be driving on a fucking runway.

[01DOGG01]

Part 2:

An oil based braking system that stores and re-delivers the energy when needed would be far more efficient than that useless crap. Especially considering that this is a limited range car made for city driving where you brake and re-accelerate frequently.

[gdoggod]

thoes fans would add more resistance than the power you could get out of them

[commodore2468]

Gorgeous.

[JUKIO01]

i kinda had a design like this in my mind. then, later somehow someone else always thinks of it too.