Automaker looks to nearly quadruple i-MIev’s current 99-mile range by 2022.
Automaker looks to nearly quadruple i-MIev’s current 99-mile range by 2022.

EV Pioneer Mitsubishi Swept Up in Currents of Change

“Battery price has since fallen to one-fourth of that (2009) level and will go down further,” Mitsubishi CEO Osamu Masuko predicts. “So we really can’t evaluate the marketplace with existing technology, because the technology is going to change in the next five to 10 years.”

TOKYO – Nearly a decade has passed since Mitsubishi launched the i-MiEV, the world’s first mass-produced electric car.

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