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Funny that you mention this, as both IMIEVs in the family have had this issue. This is extremely hard brake force applied by a feather touch of the brake pedal. Mitsubishi sorted this on both cars at the last service, and it was something to do with either a partially blocked filter, or a...

Quite amazing that 300 Miraie a month have been sold, and this would be high on my wish list.

My 2012 UK IMIEV came with a 4 year traction battery warranty, and unless this has changed (which would be news to me as I enquired last April), then there is no 10 year traction battery warranty by Mitsubishi in Europe... or if it does exist, it's not all EU markets. It is North America that...

I do get your points, and many are valid. 1. Yes those tax breaks don't come free, but they are effectively paid for by drivers of high emission vehicles - who pay a little more tax to drive their gas guzzlers, so people who drive low/ zero emission vehicles pay less or almost nothing - so...

^ Re the PHEV fail: If you live in a country that actually has a progressive taxation system to promote green vehicles, I would say his argument might be quite different. That PHEVs and BEVs get decent government grants, annual personal tax and annual business tax relief makes the PHEV pay for...

Do the battery warranty terms state 'vehicle not covered if modified in any way' - or words to that effect? This is a common wriggle-out clause.

^ could do. Not sure how making that into a BEV could make commercial sense...

Look how tiny this car is compared to the Prius-sized Mirai - I simply can't see how that would ever gain the requisite approval in the collision safety department to go mainstream, not least because I think you need to supply 2 vehicles for crash testing (definitely 1). I think there is a very...

Well one has 4 seats and the other has 2 - that automatically places the Smart at a huge disadvantage in terms of utility. As has been said, the rear seats fold down to create a usefully square load area. I have had a washing machine in there already, and no problems fitting it in, and 2 carts...

Get a can of air duster (or an air line) and spray all around the car... hopefully it will leave? Whether it comes back is another story, but there arent that many places to hide in there.

OK, so I managed to fix this in about 30 mins, as I can't stand anything broken - the design is a bit odd, as the two vents are clipped directly into the main dashboard moulding, rather than clip into a frame which then fits in to the dashboard - must be a design characteristic that is part of...

Which would cost me $5733 in the UK (vs about $500 for electric), as gas is about $6.50 a gallon now - and I too have spoken to dozens of people, and though they are amazed at how much they spend on gas, there seems to be an acceptance/ normalisation that that level of gas expenditure is still...

Bump - has anyone managed to do this yet? Very annoyingly I managed to unpop two of the vertical blades on the right hand air vent in the centre of the dash with a vent mobile phone holder (was a good idea at the time)... However, even more annoyingly - I cant effectively hold the vent...

I would say so - where the Outlander ICE (if it is available with a manual transmission/ planetary auto) could be classed as a a 4x4/ proper SUV of sorts, anything with a CVT gearbox will be in crossover territory, and CVTs are inherently sub-optimal compared to other options at delivering...

Makes sense if you are regularly performing warp speed, though I would suggest that this advice is lawyer/ litigator speak in some way. In Southern England, we have a 70mph limit on the highways, inferior quality road surfaces in general to the Germans, and generally higher population density...

The front Continental tyres I have on my Imiev are '08s, and I got them as new old stock for a very low price... £40 for the pair or something. They were wrapped when I bought them shortly after I bought the car which was 4 years old, and I left them wrapped until I needed them after about 6...

New EV demand is pretty strong now, and the rate limiting step is still in battery production, hence supply is behind demand, and new prices will remain higher for the foreseeable future compared to ICE - and I don't see a lot of change over the next 3 years - which should strengthen used EV...

This question has come up before, and essentially, no warranty would be reset by a replacement part/ product, it's effective from the purchase date of the vehicle (all warranty terms are somewhat different, but it's almost always from the date of purchase/ delivery). RE: whether the packs use...

Thanks for that - useful!

Sorry to hear about this. I hope that you get your replacement pack that you deserve. It is still a pretty uncommon event to have a failed pack, as we only really hear about the failed ones, not all the cars that are fine, which sort of skews the perception - however, it is true there have been...