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Mitsubishi To Begin Electric Car Retail Sales

July 2009 | Company Brief

News: Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors has announced that it will begin retail sales of its i-MiEV electric car from July 31 2009. Mitsubishi dealers will take orders for the electric car globally. The automaker has lined up 5,000 units of plug-in cars to be sold domestically in 2010. The i-MiEV electric car can travel 160km on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery.

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