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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV hits 200,000 global sales

Green Car Congress

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that the world’s first plug-in hybrid SUV, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, has achieved sales of 200,000 units worldwide since its launch in 2013. It has become the world best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle as at the end of December 2018.

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2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV starts at $35,500; aggressive prices for plug-in hybrid SUV

Green Car Reports

Trying to beat luxury competitors who've been at the plug-in hybrid SUV game for a couple of years, the 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV will be aggressively priced, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

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2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV: first drive of plug-in hybrid SUV

Green Car Reports

Not too many people will ever drive the 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, the plug-in hybrid version of the company's mid-size crossover utility vehicle. So it was fitting that the company launched the vehicle on dusty roads in the back country of Catalina Island: roads that not many people are allowed to drive on.

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2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV gas mileage review: practical and efficient

Green Car Reports

The Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid is something of a missing link in the market for plug-in cars. Several electric SUVs are coming, but the only one that really lives up to the automotive ideal of driving anywhere you want at a.

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Mitsubishi Evo rally sedan morphs into electric crossover concept

Green Car Reports

At least that's Mitsubishi's idea with its new e-Evolution concept that debuted Wednesday at the LA Auto Show. Unlike the winged sedan that took the off-road rally racing world by storm 15 years ago, the new model is an electric SUV. READ MORE: 2018. Electric power has come to drag racers, hill-climb cars, and Formula E racers.

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JATO: new car average CO2 emissions highest in Europe since 2014; slow EV uptake insufficient to counter fewer diesels and more SUVs

Green Car Congress

As expected, the combination of fewer diesel registrations and more SUVs continued to have an impact on emissions. g/km higher than in 2018, the delta was lower than the difference between the 2017 and 2018 results—where the growth was 2.4 g/km in 2018 to 111.1 In 2018, for every BEV registered there were 2.3

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Size or Speed? IIHS Study Examines Safety Between Models

The Truth About Cars

The vehicle that saw the most per capita deaths (2018-2021) was the Mitsubishi Mirage G4. Because the little Mitsubishi was pursued by the Dodge Challenger. From 2018 to 2021 there were 155,136 fatalities, compared with 147,599 from 2015 to 2018. However, vehicle mass likely wasn’t the singular factor here.

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