2010 Mitsubishi Colt EV

The engines of Mitsubishi chose to center its development of the technology of the second generation of electric vehicle on engines of in-wheel and the batteries of lithium-ion which the company had worked above during several years. Currently working with a vehicle of test which uses these technologies, which it the concept of the electric vehicle of engine of In-wheel of Mitsubishi (MIEV), the company doubled also considers their application to the hybrid vehicles of electric vehicles and combustible battery.

The engine of in-wheel makes it possible to regulate the input torque and the force of braking independently to each wheel without need for any transmission, complex machine element or driving shaft other. For this reason, MIEV offers the strongly promising potential in the evolution continues of Mitsubishi 'of technology alwheel of ordering of S which is used so much successfully in the evolution of Launching, Pajero and other models 4WD. The fact that the system of drive is placed inside the wheel itself offers a freedom appreciably larger of design and also facilitates it for plac components space-consuming such as the installation of battery, the piles of combustible battery and the hydrogen tanks used in vehicles of combustible battery of hybrid and.