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Guess Which Brand Had the World's First Publicly Available Mass-Produced Electric Car....It's Not Tesla

This brand also had Japan’s first ever mass-produced car back in 1917. Can you guess which brand has been innovative over the decades? 

  • Mitsubishi Motors has won the world-famous Dakar Rally 12 times, more than any other brand of car.

  • The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid is the world’s best-selling – and was the world’s first – all-wheel-drive plug-in hybrid SUV.

  • Mitsubishi’s first car was the Mitsubishi Model-A, built in 1917, when the company was called the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co, Ltd. This was the first-ever mass-produced car built in Japan.

  • In 2009, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV was the world’s first publicly available mass-produced electric car.

  • Since Mitsubishi Motors started in the U.S. market, in 1982, the company has sold more than 5.8 million vehicles in the U.S.!

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