Every Mitsubishi to come in hybrid or plug-in option
The Mitsubish PX-iMiEV plug-in hybrid concept.
Diversity will be the key to Mitsubishi’s future
Soon the Ford Focus will come in gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure electric offerings, and other automakers have similar plans.
Mitsubishi, for instance, isn’t just going to take a page from Ford’s battery playbook, they are going to rewrite a whole new playbook based on this page. In the near future, every one of Mitsubishi’s vehicles could come in some kind of hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle offering.
At the LA Auto Show, while debuting the US iMiEV electric car, Mitsubishi made it quite clear that pure electric cars were just a piece of Mitsubishi’s future battery car portfolio. Plug-in hybrids, the automaker noted, were also being developed thanks in part to Mitsuibishi’s iMiEV electric car experience.
And according to MotorTrend, some day soon every vehicle in Mitsubishi’s lineup will include some kind of battery option, whether hybrid, plug-in hybrid or pure electric.
Probably the first example of this new powertrain diversity will be the Outlander SUV that could utilize the plug-in hybrid architecture found in the PX-iMiEV plug-in hybrid concept.
Mitsubishi was always a strong supported of EV or HEV. In 1999 they set the world record for the most distanced covered by an EV on a single charge, covering 1330 miles using Li-ion batteries.