* Test fleet of twelve vehicles underway
* Market launch sought in Europe in 2010
* Mitsubishi's environmental flagship vehicle
Hattersheim, 19 January 2009 - The first customers for the available modern electric car, the Mitsubishi i MiEV (MiEV: Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) is becoming a reality: In this month to start the official European test drives.
After a multitude of static presentations and test drives of utility companies, regional authorities and governments, companies with large vehicle fleets and development partners across Europe, now shows a fleet of twelve Mitsubishi i MiEV to practicality.
In a joint venture of Mitsubishi Motors Europe (subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation) and MC Automotive Europe NV (subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation), the test fleet Mitsubishi importers made available to the market potential for electric vehicles, and specifically for the i MiEV explore. Initially, the vehicles in Spain, the Netherlands and England in action. Other European markets are in the course of the year.
The Mitsubishi i MiEV is the flagship of the environmental technology Mitsubishi Motors dar. Initial tests of the vehicle and ideas were already in Japan, New Zealand, the United States of America and Europe. On the market, Mitsubishi will begin in the summer of 2009 in Japan. After the positive conclusion of the current test drives the market in Europe for the year 2010.
1080 kilogram light Mitsubishi is equipped with a permanently magnetized synchronous motor, the 47 kW / 64 hp. The maximum speed is 130 km / h, a charge the lithium-ion batteries guarantee a range of 144 kilometers (European fashion). A fast-charge the batteries is just under 25 minutes.
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