Last friday at the unveiling of the Mitsubishi Electric Car, Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited president and CEO, Robert McEniry told reporters that as part of the strategy for the future Mitsubishi will offer models with plug-in hybrid technology.
Mr McEniry confirmed that the Mitsubishi Challenger and Mitsubishi Pajero will be offered with plug-in hybrid technology for the next generation models.
“The next generation will be plug-in hybrid and will do more and have more capabilities than current models.” Mr McEniry said
At last year’s Tokyo motorshow Mitsubishi displayed a great number of new environmentally friendly vehicles including the Mitsubishi Concept PX-MiEV which uses a plug-in hybrid system.
Speaking to CarAdvice, Mitsubishi Head of Corporate Communications Lenore Fletcher said “Mitsubishi is pursuing an environmentally friendly vehicle strategy on many of its products on an international basis”
From the hints and concept cars we’ve seen over the last few months it would seem that along with the Mitsubishi Pajero & Challenger Hybrid the company might also bring out Lancer Hybrid, Colt Hybrid and Outlander Hybrid variants in the not so distant future.
It will be an interesting move for the Japanese company given its current focus on the Mitsubishi i-MiEV full-electric car. In due time we are likely to see a full-electric Mitsubishi Lancer / Colt as well.
Mitsubishi’s plug-in hybrid system as displayed in the PX-MiEV concept is driven through all four wheels by two permanent magnet synchronous motors in combination with a 1.6L DOHC MIVEC petrol engine which powers the front-wheels and acts as a generator.
Making use of a lot of complicated computer systems, the plug-in hybrid drivetrain can work out which mode to use to best save fuel. Interestingly it can even be used as an electricity generator when needed. So when put into power-supply mode it will allow the use of battery power to enable domestic appliances (great idea in case 2012 ends up being like the movie).
The different driving modes of the PX-MiEV are listed below:
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Source: caradvice.au
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