Mitsubishi is Pushing Electric Powered Propulsion System and Electric Powered Roof Earlier this week, Mitsubishi announced that it will be bringing two important cars to the upcoming North American International
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The Mitsubishi Concept-CT, a compact, high-performance electric vehicle that uses some of the most advanced technology currently available, will debut in Detroit this January. (Photo: Mitsubishi Motors North America) |
Auto Show in Detroit, an all-wheel drive sport compact concept as well as the convertible variant of its beautiful Eclipse sports car. The first, dubbed Concept-CT is a compact, high-performance electric vehicle that uses some of the most advanced technology currently available. It builds off of Mitsubishi's MIEV technology that has already been featured in a number of cars including the EVO IX MIEV and Colt MIEV concepts. While under continuous development, Mitsubishi related some of the MIEV system's latest improvements in a pre-show press release. Building off of previous' concept's unorthodox 'all-wheel drive' system, which features four in-wheel 'hub' style motors, it will get an improved form of the series-parallel
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The new concept builds off of Mitsubishi's MIEV technology that has already been featured in a number of cars including the EVO IX MIEV. (Photo: Mitsubishi Motors North America) |
electrical hybrid propulsion system in CT guise, to deliver increased power and an even longer cruising range - the most noted shortcoming of pure electric vehicles. With talks on hydrogen powered vehicles and gasoline/diesel-electric hybrids, the electric car is a memory that's growing more distant by the day, but it's something that the CT aims to reverse with the Californian-designed study. Styled and created specifically with the North American market in mind, the MIEV-powered concept aims to demonstrate that its pure-electric technology can aid in development of future vehicles down the road. Mitsubishi claims that the in-wheel electric motor would be revolutionary to the gasoline-electric hybrid market, making for fewer intrusive structural changes which in-turn would allow for more of its vehicles to be converted into energy-saving hybrids.