REPORT: iMiEV pre-orders reach 900 during the first month
Mitsubishi iMiEV - Click above for high-res image gallery
As Tesla Motors is aware, pre-orders for electric cars don't automatically equal sales, but that doesn't mean Mitsubishi shouldn't be excited about a reported 900 pre-orders for the iMiEV all-electric city car. The car is currently available to fleets and government customers in Japan; about 2,000 were scheduled for production this year, but Autohop says that 1,400 will now be made and all of them are spoken for. Consumer sales for the car next April, and Mitsubishi has said around 5,000 will be made next year. If the 900 number is correct, then almost a fifth of that allotment might already have a home. Autohop says that 387 iMiEVs have been delivered to date. Thanks for Yanquetino the tip!
Gallery: Mitsubishi iMiEV production model
[Source: Autohop]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yanquetino 10:20AM (9/14/2009)
It's already looks like demand will exceed supply in 2010. Just imagine if they'd started taking orders here! And now it makes sense why Mitsu has licensed Peugot and Citröen to build and sell the vehicle in Europe. Wish I could sign up! Tell Dave Patterson to open a waiting list.
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gorr 10:52AM (9/14/2009)
Im curious to see someone charging these cars at night with a windmill. Maybe we can get educated on that by someone having installed this. Even if electric cars save 3x-5x fuel cost over a gasoline car by plugging it into a socket, then if you plug it to a windmill for 12 hours, it's even better. What tesla, imiev, eestor, enerdel, samsung, ray o vac, panasonic, duracell, ithink, gm, general electric, wall mart, home depot, lowes, toy's a rus, circuit city, flea market, ac delco, pratt and whitney, bell helicopter, boeing, project better place, leaf, autoblog green, you tube, plug in america, volt fan club, etc, have to say about this ?
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RAN 11:12AM (9/14/2009)
I heard Toys 'R Us was very interested. :-p
skierpage 8:37PM (9/14/2009)
@gorr,
Wind power has little to do with electric cars. If you want to go off-grid and reliably recharge your car, it seems you're looking at $30,000+ (tower, turbine, generator, grid-tied inverter, battery backup). And if you want fast recharge, getting your wind generation to 240 or more volts will cost more $$$. Instead most people should plug their car in to the grid at night when electricity is available, and separately adopt cost-effective ways they can reduce their consumption of grid electricity. Use less!!!, high-efficiency lighting, insulate, more efficient appliances, then probably solar PV before wind.
XYX 9:10PM (9/14/2009)
gorr:
"What tesla, imiev, eestor, enerdel, samsung, ray o vac, panasonic, duracell, ithink, gm, general electric, wall mart, home depot, lowes, toy's a rus, circuit city, flea market, ac delco, pratt and whitney, bell helicopter, boeing, project better place, leaf, autoblog green, you tube, plug in america, volt fan club, etc, have to say about this ?"
The same as whitney housten, Ikea, Walt Disney, Subway, David Bowie, McDonalds, my grandma and my mate Rodney.
gorr 10:01AM (9/15/2009)
I said to devellop the windmill market, is it real or not ? this can do like tvs, micowave, computer, it can be better for cheaper and in x numbers of years or months i will buy one at wallmart for 50-200$ or a used one at the flea market for 20$ to cut my electric consumption at home or to recharge a battery or to make hydrogen gas. Stop any mental block toward not making product devellopment and especially commercialisation. Im pusching everyone to do products develloppement and products commercialization and then when they put that on the markiet im waiting that the price is going down while they continue to devellop the product and i start to shop for a used product. These days im shopping daily in this site, im still waiting to buy a used green car of 5 000-10 000$ without fuel cost and par performance as a v8 corvette or v10 dodge viper but without the old platform that weight too much and the limited power or 500 h.p approx and without flying capabilities.
So never naysay my buying bid. Im bidding for a used windmill with inverters and rectifiers and adapters of approx 50$ to save 50$ a month of electricity in my house. Don't try to push me for an inneficient and costly and limp solar panel that work 6 hours a day on average because i live in canada.