Mitsubishi

Peak Lithium 2015?

June 18, 2009

Mitsubishi knows full-well that it may be a possibility, as they themselves have stated recently that lithium demand will outstrip supply as early as 2015. While we all expect and hope that prices will fall as production and popularity of EVs increase, prices could possibly rise instead, forcing us to other automobile alternatives (air-compression technology [...]

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Nissan Gearing up for Competition

May 22, 2009

The Nissan Nuvu (aka ‘new view’) announced some time ago may finally be arriving in Australia next year to compete against the Mitsubishi MiEV (and possibly Toyota iQ if they sort their red tape with the government) in what is gearing up to be a new spark of electric auto competition. An alternative to the [...]

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My Breaker Broke :-(

April 11, 2009

My Airpax breaker, the main breaker switch, now has a busted switch-arm (I’ll save you the painful images). Just a few test throws under tension, the supposedly strong Bakelite switch arm shattered. The Airpax breaker is expensive, and we’ll have to see if it’s still under warranty as I paid for this some time ago. [...]

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Mitsubishi ‘MiEV’ in Town

April 2, 2009

On display at Sydney’s Darling Harbor is the new all-electric MiEV ‘production’ display vehicle. Although I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, a colleague from the office did and here is what he had to say… The Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car is on display today in Darling Harbor, I stopped in to take [...]

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