The REAL DEAL - Living With An Electric Car

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Is Britain ready for the electric car? Colin Goodwin isn’t so sure after a week of living with a Mitsubishi i-MiEV.

Monday

The Mitsubishi i-MiEV arrives bang on 9am on a trailer; with Mitsubishi based in Cirencester, it wouldn’t make it to my place in Hampton under its own steam.

“How far will it go if I drive like a bank robber?” I ask delivery man Jason Scholes. “You’ll never get fewer than 50 miles out of a full battery,” comes the reply.

The i-MiEV’s maiden voyage will be to Alton, where I am doing a story for a newspaper. It’s about 30 miles, so if I drive like a nun I should be fine. Jason said that a sure way to croak the battery is to run the heater flat out, so I leave it off and stick to 50mph on the motorway...

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achiles - 5/3/2010 3:14:46 AM

+2 Boost

Useless, I'll rather driver a motor scooter. It would be just as safe and even cheaper, fuel up (charge up) watever.

truckman - 5/3/2010 6:00:55 PM

+1 Boost

50 miles if you drive it easy, no thanks,
Although it will work for some people that only need a car for short errands and they already have a second car when they have anywhere else to go. They should have better batteries out by now, we have all heard of batteries that last 2x longer than lithium Ion but where are they? Did the oil companies buy them out or kill them?