My main point is that people, such as people on this comment blog have suggested, believe that EV technology is still in the stone ages. Or we’re all too passionate about our cars that happen to run on gas and we can’t let go of them. We definitely have some kind of emotional problem when there’s a better, more advanced vehicle (EVs) and we refuse to accept it.

It doesn’t matter if I’m talking about the GM EV1 or Ford Ranger EV or Tesla EV, or MiEV, or Tango EV or Rav4 EV. They all have similar recharge times with a given plus or minus.

The technicalities that you pointed out are obvious if not common sense. A concept or not, SPORT, means that it has better performance,it’s accessorized and stylized; otherwise you wouldn’t be calling it “sports” concept.

I-Miev: 16kW, 160km or 100 miles
Miev Sport: 20kW, 200km or 124 miles

The recharge time is purely logistical. If it only seats two people then it’s a lighter car because it has to house less people and with slightly added performance, you get a longer range. If you get a longer range then it takes a longer time to recharge because you have more to recharge.

At this point, all these technicalities are negligible. Nobody argues whether a Ferrari Enzo or Ferrari 612 is fast or not fast. You’re technicalities are the equivalent to arguing that the Enzo has a 0.52sec faster acceleration than a 612 Scaglietti. The public at large has yet to accept that EVs are faster, outperforms, has lower maintenance than a gas car.

In the grand scheme of things, EVs are marketable and is a reality in our future.
There’s no argument that EVs can recharge in the time frame that we gas up our cars.(Just misinformation is widespread).

When there are recharge ports at every gas station or electric stations in abundance like gas stations then we won’t have that “range limitation”. Not only that, you can recharge them at home for the cheapest rate.

Since we’re in a transitional stage, some people haven’t gotten their grips and anything that can disapprove new ev technology as viable, they hop on the band wagon.

EVs are more advanced, are viable, and superior to gas cars. PERIOD.

I’m saying some people are missing some brain cells when they go to a competitor’s website to find out about a new rival vehicle technology and believe everything that’s written about it or worse, not written. LOL.

Answer these questions to prove that I’m soooooo stupid. Tell me one thing, if there are recharging EV technology that can do a 80% recharge in minutes and 100% in 3.5hrs why do you have a wireless recharge of 17hours as a PRIMARY way of recharging?

YOU WANT FACTS HERE YOU GO! Don’t worry it isn’t from EVworld and it’s the exact MODEL that you want bud although the recharge time is basically the SAME between an i-miev and sports concept miev.

“Range is estimated at 123 miles for the 2138-pound 2+2. The inverter and charger are under the trunk. A microwave wireless recharging system is used. The transmitter is housed on the garage floor, and a receiver is mounted under the lithium ion batteries. Recharging takes 17 hours at 100 volts input. Using 200 volts cuts the time in HALF, and an 80-percent charge can be obtained in 35 minutes with a 200-volt QUICK CHARGER.”

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Car_Shows_and_Concept_Cars/Concept_Cars/2007_Mitsubishi_iMiEV_Sport_Concept.S283.A13550.html

You guys are idiots if you believe that the 17 hours of any recharge time is viable as the PRIMARY source. You’d have to go to work every other day LOL!!! Hilarious!

It just says it CAN DO wireless. It’s a new feature for furthering recharge options for the future. Essentially, if you are at work or a remote location where you can’t get direct electric power you can do it via wireless but they only have a transmitter for your garage at this point.

People read without understanding the background or in between the lines. It never says,”that was THE ONLY WAY to recharge”. Why is it that the GM site conveniently left other facts out Domenick????? It recharges 80% in 35 minutes yet all you hear commenting here is that it takes too long to recharge. So yeah you are idiots if you believe 17 hours is the true recharge time, a lone fact mentioned by a competitor’s website. Learn to research and understand facts Domenick. LOL. P.S. You make me laugh.

http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1352
“The car can be recharged using normal household current at 100 volts (taking approximately 14 hours to recharge), 200 volts (7 hr recharge time) and 3-phase 200 volt. In the latter case, it would take only 30 minutes to recharge the vehicle to 80 percent SOC (state-of-charge) using a Quick-charge system. ”

NOTICE no where does it say it’ll take 17 hours. It’ll recharge in 7 or 30min for 80%.
You only get 100 miles because it meets only a certain niche. It’s not a car to replace all cars.

Don’t categorize Mitsubishi as all of Japan when it isn’t even in the top 3 in Japan. And you wonder why we Americans get a bad rep being stupid? LOL.

The Chevy Volt doesn’t represent every american automaker and auto-owner.

All I have to say about the Volt is that it is a great IDEA. I won’t believe GM until I see it people’s driveways. If it does, then I’ll probably buy one but until then they have ZERO credibility after the crushing of EV1s.