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Old 12-25-2007, 09:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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90 day: 52.71 mpg (US)

Even Fancier Metro - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage top spec
90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

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Article: Electric Subaru Due in 2009, One Year Early

From GCC:



Subaru R1e electric -see more images @ Google images

Quote:
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd, (FHI) will start selling electric Subarus in Japan in 2009—a year earlier than initially planned, according to President Ikuo Mori.

FHI currently has 40 units of its electric R1e in operation in Japan in customer trials. The company is targeting first-year sales of its electric car at 100 units.

The price and specifics of the vehicle are not yet disclosed, but FHI said it plans to have its electric cars down to around ¥2 million (US$17,500) apiece by 2012 or 2013. Mori said that by the mid-2010s, mass production will significantly decrease the cost of batteries, enabling electric cars to come down to below ¥1.5 million (US$13,100).

Full item: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007...ic-subaru.html
A side note: I wonder if they will in fact sell these vehicles (as the item states), rather than lease them. Call me paranoid, but after the GM EV1 disaster in the US, I pay more attention to that detail.

In addition to the R1e A class "city" car, Subaru also showed a prototype 4-door, 5 passenger battery electric vehicle at the '07 Tokyo auto show:


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