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
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
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.
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) |
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) |
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.