Recent content by BillSF

A trade-off between time and money comes into play as well. If you're willing to spend the time and the stations are available, you can stop at a 440V quick charge location an top off the battery pack (to 80%) in probably 10 to 15 minutes. I do this occasionally in my i-MiEV. But doing this...

I've heard that much of the EV technology in the Outlander is currently being real-world tested in the i-MiEV which Mitsubishi guarantees will retain 70% of its capacity at 100,000 miles. However, about half of the value of the i-MiEV is in the batteries, so they are not going to be cheap to...

A major mitigating factor for the range issue is that the PHEV Outlander will have the 440V quick charge port. My i-MiEV (with a 16kw battery pack) charges to 80% in about 20 minutes. The Outlander should only take 15minutes--or less if there is charge left in the batteries.

My experience driving a Mitsubishi i-MiEV for the past year is that driving on electricity is far less expensive than gasoline. At normal electrical rates in California of about $0.14US (fourteen cents) per KWH it costs me about 3 cents a mile. I just switched to the E-9 rate structure for EV...