PSA Peugeot Citroën will produce an electric minicar in Europe based on Mitsubishi Motors recently launched i-MIEV, the companies say. Production will begin in October 2010.
The tiny
i-MIEV, which was launched in Japan in June, is the first mass-market electric car powered by new-generation lithium-ion batteries, John Reed reports. It gets all of its power from its battery.
Mitsubishi plans to begin global sales of a right-hand-drive version of the car later this year and to enter left-hand-drive markets in 2010.
"Many industry observers and participants
think a new generation of electric cars planned by several carmakers from next year will find only modest initial success in niche markets because of limitations on their use and their high expected
initial price," Reed observes.
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