Mitsubishi's iMiEV All-Electric Car Goes On Sale Next Month

Too cartoonish? I'd frickin' love to see some cartoony cars in the states. Seeing a little old lady goin' 90 in a 40 zone in one of those things would just brighten my day on my way to work.

Does it come with a free visectomy, perhaps scissors built right into the drivers seat?

A free visectomy?
OH, vasectomy.
How would independence from oil be like a vasectomy?
Is the Tesla roadster's performance testicular enough for you?

So, in some long away distant future, the one where YOU are shelling out over $5 a gallon and it costs over $75 to fill a 15 gallon tank?
No, wait, that already happened, and we are headed there again!
My wife and I refuse to purchase another car until there is a REAL, SERIOUS electric car offered for a decent price.

What is sad it the fact that the technology has been there a long time and only just now they are starting to come out with them.

The warm feeling I get when someone is thoughtful enough to say thank you for having been helped far outweighs the empty one
I get when there's no feedback at all

jackjames: sorry, but after reading your comment several times, I have no idea what you're talking about, or why-- is it just me?

Now as for the iMiEV-- the trickle of EVs back onto the US market after an absence of so many years (the EV-1, RAV-4, etc.) is frustrating, but at least it seems to have begun, even if it is a decade after GM shamelessly crushed hundreds of the best cars they ever made and they strolled blindly to the brink of bankruptcy, all the while refusing to take EVs seriously.

GM could have virtually cornered the market on hot, fast, ultra-efficient EVs and could have avoided the embarrassment and expense of the last several months if they had simply been willing to see the market they were desperately trying to ignore.

Kudos to Mitsubishi, to Tesla with their Model S, to BMW with their well-engineered Mini-E, and to all the others that are just now starting to supply us with EVs. Better late than never.

Too expensive...go look at "ZAP" Zero Air Pollution cars and trucks, an American company that has been building electric vehicles since the 90's at 1/4 of this cost! Even the US Military uses ZAP vehicles now: http://www.zapworld.com/

So is considered the first pure electric vehicle for sale in the world for mass production (I can't consider the Tesla Roadster at a price of 100k+ a mass produced and economical vehicle).

http://diary.com/posts/147201

jerrydd
George F.
06/23/09 at 8:00 am

Too expensive...go look at "ZAP" Zero Air Pollution cars and trucks, an American company that has been building electric vehicles since the 90's at 1/4 of this cost! Even the US Military uses ZAP vehicles now: http://www.zapworld.com/

Anyone thinking of this companies should read this

This company has ripped of too many people, beware.

jerrydd

Apparently the URL didn't go thru.

Google 'ZAP Wired Magazine' to find out just how bad ZAP is.

www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-04/ff_zapped

I hate the styling of these so-called electric ASIAN cars. They look like something you see in comic books or kid video games. four cylinders... please where is a eight cylinder or ten cylinder engine with torque and mileage? Give me a Chevy Camaro 2SS with 6spd manual. I like to style and have fun with power and torque in my rides.