Charging is possible by using a regular wall plug or a charging station. Public charging is always done through a charging station. How fast the EV can charge depends on the charging station (EVSE) used and the maximum charging capacity of the EV. The table below shows all possible options for charging the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Each option shows how fast the battery can be charged from empty to full.
Charging an EV in Europe differs by country. Some European countries primarily use 1-phase connections to the grid, while other countries are almost exclusively using a 3-phase connection. The table below shows all possible ways the Mitsubishi i-MiEV can be charged, but some modes of charging might not be widely available in certain countries.
Rapid charging enables longer journeys by adding as much range as possible in the shortest amount of time. Charging power will decrease significantly after 80% state-of-charge has been reached. A typical rapid charge therefore rarely exceeds 80% SoC. The rapid charge rate of an EV depends on the charger used and the maximum charging power the EV can handle. The table below shows all details for rapid charging the Mitsubishi i-MiEV.
The model shown on this page is the successor of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, which was available to order from January 2011 until November 2015. The previous model had similar range, same acceleration and was similar in energy consumption.
C/D TEST RESULTS:Zero to 60 mph: 13.0 secZero to 80 mph: 31.0 secRolling start, 5-60 mph: 14.6 secStanding ¼-mile: 20.3 sec @ 67 mphTop speed: 80 mphBraking, 70-0 mph: 183 ftRoadholding, 200-ft-dia skidpad: 0.68 g
FUEL ECONOMY:EPA city/highway: 126/99 MPGe
TEST NOTES: Acceleration peters out above 50 mph. The narrow track and short wheelbase result in squirrelly behavior during hard braking.
The light car is based on a petrol-powered model which has been on sale in Japan for some time. The MiEV stands for Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle and signifies the car''s completely zero-emission drivetrain.
150 of the cars were made but the main problem was the batteries as the units were far too heavy and unreliable. The formula worked out to be that when the battery packs weigh less than 20 per cent of the car it becomes practical to build electric cars. Fast forward nearly 40 years to the enormous advancements in electrical technology and the introduction of lithium-ion batteries and you have the i MiEV.
The full-electric Mitsubishi is designed to be just like a conventional car in the way it drives, feels and looks. Mitsubishi says running costs will be roughly one-third of the petrolequivalentgiven it requires no fuel, almost no traditional type of servicing and can travel roughly 140-160km on a single tank of fue.... electricity.
The main problem with the soon to arrive plug-in hybrid vehicles is that when they are running on full electric mode they are carrying around a heavy petrol engine and fuel tank and when they are running on petrol mode they are carrying around a battery pack and electric engines. It''s not an ideal situation.
What is obvious to all of us inside the car industry is that the car as we know it is going through a period offundamentalchange.
According to numerous recent studies, Australia is currently the no.1 producer of CO2 emissions per capita among developed nations. Hearing that should really make you wonder how you''re contributing. No doubt we can keep going after China, USA and India as the sure to be biggestpollutersof the next decade but even here in our humble country we are regarded as the biggest individualpolluters.
Although there needs to be a greater change overall than just cars, the wave of soon to arrive electric vehicles will do their bit to reduce our carbon footprint.
Mitsubishi representatives were very clear to point out that what their company does is make cars. They are not in the business of making clean renewable energy and no doubt they would love the idea of electricity being produced with less carbon footprint than our current coal powered stations. However they are doing their bit and the rest is up to the energy companies.
The i MiEV takes roughly seven hours to charge from empty but can be recharged at any time just like your mobile phone terestinglythe car''s batteries are just like a mobile phone''s. In its first modern iteration it stores power using a lithium-ion battery pack consisting of 22 modules of 4 x 3.7v-50Ah Lev 50 battery cells which are produced indirectly by the same company that makes batteries for space shuttles.
The issue is the batteries, they simply can''t make enough of them and there is a shortage of lithium production (although I hear Bolivia which holds more than half the world''s lithium supplies will soon become the new middle-east given the world''s growing dependence on lithium).
Mitsubishi Australia stands in a unique position having got the very first full-electric car complied and ready for this market. The idea is to get the cars out there as soon as possible to raise awareness and also help pay for the enormous R&D costs involved in its development. As is the case with all first-generation technology the early-adopters fee applies and Mitsubishi is very keen on getting governments and fleets on board.
Developing 47kW of power and 180Nm of torque the i MiEV is the ideal city car, it accelerate a lot faster than you''d expect and it develops maximum torque at all times given its electric power source. There is no transmission as it requires none to deliver the power and it also has no reverse gear in the traditional sense of the word. The software simply tells the engine to drive the motor backwards and away you go (technically you can go 130km/h backwards if you really wanted too).
It comes with a basic charge cable which can plug straight into your household charger. We are actually rather lucky in Australia as most of us have lock-up garages that can recharge the i MiEV. In European and Asian countries not many are blessed with garages.
For all the geeks out there the i MiEV''s total voltage measures 330V and has a total battery storage capacity of 16kWh. The battery and electric motor are located under the seating in the rear of the car and power is subsequently delivered to the rear-wheels (unlike most light cars which are driven via the front wheels).
Technical details and presentations aside it was finally time to drive the i MiEV. There is something relatively momentous about getting behind the wheel of a car that''s all-new, or at least I thought.
Mitsubishi has built the i MiEV to be essentially just a normal car but with an electric power source for an engine, it looks and feels the same in every other way. I was hoping it would be like getting behind the wheel of a futuristic space-mobile. Not so. It''s almost identical to a normal car inside.
So much so that the transmission gear-lever is exactly the same as a conventional car despite being completely computer controlled. So putting the gear in ''D'' simply sends a signal to the car''s computer to engage forward motion.
There is no technical reason as to why it has to look like a gear-lever except that people are used to it. It would be great to see a simple array of buttons on the dash board as oppose to wasting space with a gear-lever which really doesn''t do much technically.
The i MiEV is a proper four-seater city car and it can easily carry four adults around town. It certainly doesn''t lack any power with a full load.
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