TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MITSUBISHI i-MiEV ON CARS & BIDS!
This is the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the most useless EV around. Today I'm evaluating this i-MiEV, and I'll show you all the numerous quirks and features. I'm likewise going to get behind the wheel of the i-MiEV and show you what it resembles to drive.
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CHAPTERS:.
00:00 THIS …
00:37 You Can Buy It On CARS & BIDS!!!
01:12 Overview.
01:45 The Start of the EV Revolution.
02:15 First, But Not Finest.
02:47 Styling.
03:18 Based upon a Kei Automobile.
03:49 Interior Quirks & Features.
05:03 Featureless.
06:08 Range Sucking Air Conditioner.
07:13 Mickey Mouse Gauge Cluster.
08:28 Equipment Selector.
09:44 Infotainment.
11:19 Strange Wipers.
11:54 Back Seats: Outstanding Headroom, Horrible Legroom.
12:49 The Dots.
13:24 Freight Location.
13:59 i-MiEV? Or i?
15:06 2 Various Charge Ports.
16:19 22.5 Hours to Charge!
17:08 Front Compartment.
17:50 Wheels & Tires.
18:32 Generally a Porsche 911.
19:17 Rates.
20:13 US Market Performance.
20:46 Rebrands.
21:06 Nobody Bought It.
22:06 Driving Experience.
26:08 Last Ideas.
26:33 DougScore.
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I love it when Doug reviews these run of the mill cars as opposed to the high end exotics
same
there’s way more. quirks and features!!!
This is not really what I’d call a “run of the mill” car but it still makes an interesting review nonetheless lol
@Jeff B.better to say “cars regular people can afford”
I taught him well 😌
Doug, the kind of guy who drives The Pontiac Aztek to feel handsome.
Dude speaking fact
lfa aint a match for the potato aztek
Or probably he’s just a Breaking Bad fan
Oof, emotional damage.
😀
I used to deliver pizzas in one of these things and it was BRILLIANT.
A horrible everyday driver, but great as a fleet-car and in-town runabout.
I can see that. I though about buying it and giving it a wild paint job. Just to make it even more ugly.
GO HOME PIZZA BOY… THIS COMMENT IS CLOSED. 😂
@Murder Bong I was slinging those Gallo 24s all over town
@Tyler BeckerWould have loved to see it: Motley red sprinkled with styrofoam “cheese” bits, burnt crust trim, and pepperoni wheel covers…
@Computer Mechanixblack with flames on it
I never thought Doug would ever get to review this quirky EV. You can see it as a rental city car here in Madrid Spain, alongside the Citroën C-ZERO (which is a rebadged i-MiEV).
Also, it looks super similar to another tiny car from TATA called NANO (albeit the latter came with a combustion engine).
Actually there was a combustion engine version of this car. Albeit it was just called the Mitsubishi I.
In the UK we call it “i meev” and the major issue was always the sticker price and range. £33,000 after EV plug-in grant was eye-watering, especially compared to the ICE versions which were a third of the price.
We never got the ICE version, we only get the ICE step up, the Mirage.
@For The Love Of NoiseThere is a Peugeot version called the iON as well
I recall the Citroen version being advertised at about £12k when they stopped production.
lol. People in the US call it ‘I meev” too, it just depends on the individual.
@Rob Smalland the Citroen version the cZero
Doug is the type of guy to feel jetlagged after flying to the same timezone.
😂😂😂
The icon on the “fuel” door release in the driver’s footwell is clearly a charge station – it even has an obvious plug with two prongs at the end of the cord. Same image Mitsubishi used on the dashboard for the gauge. They did not re-use an old part for the gas powered version, they actually went to the trouble of stamping out a custom part.
Was about to post the same thing.
Doug misses things like this all of the time. One of his quirks I guess.
@dwensinger true. I guess it feels different to “miss” something vs. rallying against a thing that was done but was not in fact actually done. If you can see it in the video you can see it real life.
Doug might need bi-focals way earlier than he suspects….or he’s making mistakes on purpose to get more comments.
Doug is the kind of guy to sell you a car by calling it a forgetful joke
Ikr…damn
fun fact: early versions of the i-MiEV had an option where it came with a slot in the dashboard which was to fit an ipod nano that came with it. you would upload music onto the ipod and just plug it right into the slot on the dash for music
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that Doug is trying to fit in the backseats again?
But only if they have doors 😔
Yup. I could not watch until the end of the clip, did he also check out the user guide? It’s been a while since he did that in his videos.
If it does like 60 miles on full charge, then if you took it on a highway at 60 to 70mph the range would reduce profoundly and could strand you after maybe 30 miles or something. Factoring in uphill grades of road, it would reduce range even more. It is really not suited for highway use, but could be used for short and calculated highway runs.
Which is why you don’t trust range estimates, do your own maths for your own journey.
it’s likely exclusively for city driving.
Doug is the type of guy to buy a CarMax dealership so he can review the cars and then place them on cars and bids
Doug is the type of guy to review two egg shaped cars in one week
I want him to review the quirks and features of his girlfriend
@Robert Sandershe has a wife, not a girlfriend
@victornjensen I bet she gold digger 😆 🤣
@Akram Baig they got married in 2017, and Doug wasn’t rich then, so no.
christ man
One thing i like is that it uses a common-style gear selector, rather than making up some completely unintuitive dial and button gadget that seems random, like must other EVs.
Some early electric mass production cars had a conventional manual gearbox that was just stuck in second or third gear from the factory (I’m not kidding), although I don’t know if that’s the case with this one as well.
The reason most EV manufacturers don’t use typical gear selectors is because it’s a paradigm that bears no relation to EV architectures. Parking brakes are electronically actuated, forward/reverse is simply a function of the polarity of signal flowing to the motor, and regen levels are just firmware tuning. A lever selector is bulky and implies mechanical necessity when there is none in EVs, where everything is done by wire.
@Longtoothsaber I think you’re referring to early Tesla Roadster prototypes, but my understanding is that Tesla opted for its own gearbox design just before units shipped, so no customers actually got the manual gearbox. Either that, or they were replaced post-delivery and no one has one with a gearbox anymore – I can’t recall
not the sexbot
@MegaphonixFake exhausts seem to find their way into EV design though.
As a designer that always makes me wince.
As a Norwegian, this car is an everyday sight. The cheapest electric car you can buy right now, way cheaper than even a used leaf
I saw a new Nissan leaf at a Nissan dealership looked pretty nice was available for $39k kind of expensive
In Europe they were also sold as Peugeots and Citroens with a lower spec. One feature missing was the B mode. Except if you filed out the slot on the shifter to extend the lever’s travel you did in fact have B mode. They literally disabled the feature by not letting you move the lever to it.
not lower spec. exact spec.
I think the i-MiEV was more ahead of its time than most people realize. So much focus on range and power right now adds a huge amount of battery mass. If you could (reasonably quickly) charge your car literally everywhere you parked it, then you would hardly ever need 300+ miles of range.
I know someone who used to own of these as her daily, and she told me it was one of the best cars she’d ever owned because it was affordable, reliable, and oh so very weird.
How she managed to daily drive this car with only 60 or so miles of range will always be a mystery to me.
Oh man, I loved this car from 2016 to 2019. I would use it for doing food delivery(avg40miles) pretty much every day from 5 to 9 PM. And then let it charge for the rest of the day. Work 4 hours, charge 20 hours, ha ha.
I love the footprint for parking, safe high turn signals, the non nav cd player w/a huge volume knob😂, cupholders for pop cans or a skinny & tall thermos.
When we had our first kid in 2017, my wife would have to sit behind me the driver. The passenger seat all the way forward to allow enough space for the baby seat. We sold it when I got out of the food delivery business and had a 2nd kid. We are now happy with our Chevy Bolt.
According to the US Department of Transportation, half of all US car trips are six miles or less. 95% of car trips are 30 miles or less. On average, over 70% of drivers do 40 miles or less per day, combined total of all trips that day. In real life, long range is mostly a “what if” anxiety-soother rather than something that is actually used nearly as much as the emphasis that is placed on it when EVs come up. Yes, EVs like this are not ideal for ALL use cases, but they’re more practical than is usually recognized.
Exactly, this is not the main car. It’s the I will save some gas and save some miles on my main car …..
This was a real early adopter EV. Range, and thus usability, was severely limited by 2009 battery tech, but the performance isn’t actually bad in terms of European/Japanese city car standards. And as a city car it’s actually quite good, being small and manoeuvrable yet still practical enough.