{"id":1156,"date":"2009-10-23T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T08:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2009-10-23T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T08:20:18","slug":"mitsubishi-i-miev-electric-van-makes-an-enlarged-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1156","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi i Miev Electric Van Makes An Enlarged Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As forecast, Mitsubishi has announced a van version of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitsubishi-motors.com\/special\/ev\/\" target=\"_blank\">i Miev electric car<\/a>. However, instead of just removing the seats and panelling over the windows, the clever people at Mitsubishi have managed to make it bigger, without making it bigger &#8211; they&#8217;ve increased the height of the load area and squared it off a bit. The result is a van with a load are measuring 62 cubic feet &#8211; a little less than half that of a Ford Transit Connect.<\/p>\n<p>For pics and a full launch report, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/10\/21\/mitsubishi-i-miev-cargo-tokyo-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a> on Autoblog Green.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/566\" target=\"_self\">As I reported earlier this year<\/a>, Mitsubishi has already entered into a partnership with PSA (Peugeot-Citroen) for them to build a European version of the i Miev car. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/698\" target=\"_self\">The question is<\/a>, will this deal extend to PSA producing an i Miev van?<\/p>\n<p>It would fit perfectly into the urban\/electric market and would give the company a valuable starting point in bringing to market all-electric vans. Given recharging concerns, electric vans often make more sense than electric cars, as vans are typically used on fixed routes, with known mileages each day and a fixed base to recharge at each night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsubishi has unveiled the van version of its i Miev electric car. Will the i Miev van be coming to Europe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[249,474,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}