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Mitsubishi Fuso to deliver 20 eCanter trucks to Australia Post

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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation will deliver 20 units of the all-electric eCanter truck to the Australia Post fleet. In October, Australia Post will become the first local customer to integrate the electric light-duty truck into its daily operations. The eCanter, which falls under the 7.5-ton hours to fully recharge.

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2024 Mitsubishi EK X review: First Aussie drive of the cuddly kei car that could become Australia’s cheapest EV

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Mitsubishi’s impossibly cute and cuddly “kei” car (it’s Japanese for “as small as a Tamagotchi’s testicle”), the all electric EK X, could become the cheapest EV on Australian roads if the company’s local arm succeeds in its mission to put it on sale here for “between $30,000 and $35,000”. 2024 Mitsubishi EK X dashboard.

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Mitsubishi wants to launch Australia’s cheapest electric car, but there’s a very expensive reason it might not

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Even as it considers launching Australia’s cheapest battery electric vehicle, Mitsubishi Australia is warning a slow roll-out of renewable energy will impact the uptake of EVs in Australia. 2024 Mitsubishi Triton. In Australia, Mitsubishi was an early EV adopter, selling the i-Miev battery electric mini-car from 2010 to 2014.

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Mitsubishi Fuso to begin series production of fuel-cell trucks by late 2020s; concept eCanter F-CELL

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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), part of the Daimler Trucks family, plans to start the series production of fuel-cell trucks by the late 2020s. MFTBC believes that truly CO2-neutral transportation will only be realized through either battery-powered electric vehicles or hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.

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T&E study finds plug-in hybrids show higher CO2 emissions than claimed

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T&E has commissioned Emissions Analytics to test three of the most popular PHEVs sold in 2019: a BMW X5 (longest EV range PHEV available), a Volvo XC60 and the Mitsubishi Outlander. Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving.

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Mitsubishi Delivers 4 i-MiEV Electric Vehicles to the Principality of Monaco

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) jointly delivered four units of the electric vehicle i-MiEV to the Principality of Monaco on 15 November. Mitsubishi launched the i-MiEV was launched in Japan in July 2009. and MC Automobile (Europe) N.V. regarding fleet testing of the EVs in March.

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DB Schenker expands its electric fleet with 36 new FUSO eCanter vehicles

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Europe’s leading land transport provider is thus strengthening its sustainability strategy and further expanding the use of electric vehicles in its mixed fleets. With these latest vehicles, DB Schenker will become FUSO’s largest electric fleet customer with a total of 41 eCanter vehicles in daily operations.

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