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Highly unlikely. The Outlander PHEV while as unique and as efficient as it may be, after owing it for a 1.5 year I feel like it has too many compromises to offset its benefits. By 2020~2021 there would be full BEV options that are in the Outlander PHEV price range, some with AWD. Also as most...

Mitsubishi Canada has published a "Battery capacitance measurement" to be performed on all PHEVs at either 15 months or 24,000km. The service advisor I met described it very similar to a cell smoothing procedure (full discharge + slow recharge + cell balancing) and a BMU refresh. Is this the...

Very helpful. I'll just ask them on a report of the battery state of health report then for now.

Do you have the code or recall notice so I can inquire about this? My car is due for service this week and it would be nice to get all of this done in one visit.

Well the car is about to take its 2nd routine maintenance service at 16,000km. When I brought the car one of the promotions was free oil changes 2x per year (somewhat useful as old man's commute is ~50km roundtrip with no charging stops in between) and the rest like air filters & all that jazz...

The dealer for the first two times said the alignment was good & did the alignment again the 2nd time which solved nothing. Get a technician to take a drive with you as the passenger - find a flat road with no center crown. Set the steering straight & drive - if it pulls to the side you have a...

I consulted a Mitsubishi technician in Canada during an event about this question. Please note this may only apply for the MY2018 (North America never received the PHEV until this year). According to what I learned, the battery cooling would kick on anytime the charge plug is plugged in &...

Extremely valuable insight. Hopefully once some members here have gotten the revised MY2019 car with the 2.4L engine, 94hp rear motor & 13.8 kWh battery would chime in on how it differentiates from the earlier models in the future.

Watching the EVolution Australia teardown I finally see where Mitsubishi placed the electric heater core...and frankly it is kind of humorous. I would have through putting it in the engine bay would have been more smarter, but the location under the driver's seat without insulation seems like a...

Beat me to it D: Still it is probably the first time I've seen what is underneath the car and also answers the question of what is blocking the 3rd row of the PHEV version. The most interesting thing to me is the location of the electric heater core. I thought it would be in the front of car...

Did you hook up the phone remote control app yet? If you did this is a perfect time to give that defrost function a good workout. I only remember too vividly two winters ago when I was stuck outside in similar wet freezing rain conditions and cannot get into my car coming off the GO transit to...

Hello folks in Canada I got a question for you. ;) I think we all know that Mitsubishi Canada flaunts their 10yr/160,000km warranty in the country, being arguably one of the longest of all manufacturers here. The Outlander PHEV also has the standard 10yr power-train warranty, plus 10yr...

I think it is a nice overall PHEV sedan. You get the good traditional looks, quality, tech, performance & handling of a BMW 3 series + ability to plug in. Sure the 7.6 kW battery & 23km range is kind of poor, but it still is a greener alternative to a diesel & even when operating on gas-hybrid...

It is a shame that BYD is still landlocked to China as of now since "made in China" has such a negative connotation in the rest of the world. Their advancement in EV & PHEV tech is much more advanced than many other manufacturers in the world. Heck I would argue with BYD development in public...

From my experience so far in -5 degrees celsius temperatures, as long as the car is started WITHOUT the climate control turned on (the ICE will fire almost immediately), hit the EV mode button and then activate the climate control at 20deg the car is perfectly comfortable. You do immediately see...

Interesting. While going into B5 would maximize regen, using the brakes and monitoring the PHEV info page on the display would also give insights into how much power is being regained via regen. I find with a light foot & pre-emptive driving style, you can pretty much regen all the way from any...

That's what I thought too. Now looking back it has been corrected to 35km (previously it was 52km which we all know is nigh impossible) and the rebates dropped from $9500 to $7000. I'm now actually happy we picked up one in January before this went down.

I had a Chademo charger cut out on me every 2 minutes due to "isolation test failure". Which is kind of BS as before I got there a 2015 Leaf 30 kWh was charging happily and the owner was napping before he finished.

I was told regen doesn't happen when 1. battery is close to full & 2. when battery is cold. Still regen braking has been pretty constant for me. Car reviewers often give crap for hybrids for mushy brakes & clunky transition from regen to friction brakes, but the Outlander PHEV has been one of...

Just another day going through the stuff from my PC when I found this picture I have snapped back at the 2011 Canadian International Autoshow. Now this was much before I knew of the PHEV or even had the concept of a plug-in hybrid - remember this was the same year Chevrolet unveiled the then...