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Hitachi, Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE testing plug-in vehicles as renewable energy storage for office buildings

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Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. For this demonstration, the consortium linked Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charger to ENGIE’s office building in Zaandam, The Netherlands. Hitachi Europe Ltd.,

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Nikola factory, Audi bi-directional charging, Mitsubishi plug-in hybrid update: Today’s Car News

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Nikola Motors starts building a factory in Arizona. Mitsubishi is upgrading its best-selling plug-in hybrid under the hood, before a redesigned version arrives. And Audi agrees that bi-directional charging tech is a good idea. An Audi project researching bi-directional charging proves its potential for.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV

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Flash Drive: 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. There probably isn’t a more important model for Mitsubishi than the all-new 2023 Outlander Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV). Mitsubishi says the Outlander PHEV is bringing together their best expressions of design, ride and interior space along with performance and of- road capability.

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Mitsubishi reports fire in i-MiEV battery pack, melting in Outlander PHEV pack

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Mitsubishi Motors reported two separate incidents with Li-ion battery packs: one, a fire in a i-MiEV battery pack at the Mizushima battery pack assembly plant; the other, heating and melting in a pack installed in an Outlander plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. In the Mizushima event, the pack was connected to charge-discharge test equipment.

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Rebounding Mitsubishi expects North American profitability to surge

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Mitsubishi, which lately kicked off a brandnew mid-term marketing strategy focused on international gross sales of one.1 Collapsing gross sales in China, the place deliveries fell by way of part within the three-month length, have pressured Mitsubishi to droop manufacturing there till the top of Might a minimum of. billion yen ($1.44

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Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi to invest €23B over 5 years in electrification; 35 new EV models by 2030; solid-state batteries

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The Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Alliance has defined a common 2030 roadmap on pure-EV and Intelligent & Connected mobility, sharing investments for the benefits of its three-member companies and their customers. Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi have already invested more than €10 billion in the field of electrification.

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Mitsubishi joins PSA and other French partners in second-life batteries demonstration

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) announced the launch of a joint demonstration project for utilizing used lithium-ion batteries from electric-powered vehicles. Bi-directional battery energy consumption optimization (car to building and building to car).