Featured if you are looking at a new plugin or EV which is more important, range or MPGe?

it's a screenshot. You have to go to their website if you want The Real McCoy.
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Mitsu automotive is a strange creature. Its Plug-in hybrid SUV Outlander is the most popular plug-in in most of Europe. It does well in its home country of Japan as well. How weird is it, that they would have the most ridiculous & the most coveted plug-in (in some countries). So, what does Mitsu decide it will do for its U.S. Outlander version? They decided to rob it off its native quick charge CHAdeMO feature that it gives to other countries. If Mitsu were plastic surgeons, they'd give you a great nose job, & give you a clef palette just to assure their inexplicable history remains inexplicable .

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zoom out does not work.

 

Works fine for me.

 

i guess they just don't want me for a customer. they don't need a whiny, crotchety old man.

 

They know from the SpaceX spy satellites.

 

CHAdeMO isn't as useful here as it is overseas, though. It's not as common (especially compared to Japan, where it's almost as common as a J1772 is here), it's terribly expensive here, and in the US, there's not as much need for it.

In Japan, CHAdeMO is used to get around the apartment gap, as well as poor quality home power supply, as I understand, to work in more of a gas station model - you drive to get a charge, then go home.

In Europe, there's the apartment gap, and there's also mandatory electric areas, so being able to quick charge before entering one helps.

In the US, there's less of the apartment gap, and there's no such thing as a mandatory electric area, so CHAdeMO is really meant as a way for a short range BEV to make it home without sitting at a J1772 for a few hours, and is priced like an emergency option. Therefore, it doesn't make sense for an automaker to spend the money necessary to install DCFC on a PHEV, considering that the gasoline engine is far cheaper to run as an emergency get-you-home power source than using CHAdeMO.

 

Some providers are slow with repairs, others are better.

The Nav pointing to chargers ranges from incomplete & out of date to updated within days, extremely accurate & will even show how many available stalls.

It is a new infrastructure, it will take time to grow but it is already leaps and bounds ahead of where it was a few years ago.

 

£14000 is only ½ the cost of your hospital bill - if you ever get hit in that flimsy "Made-in-India" beer can. Have you ever watched India beer can crash tests?

You CAN build a car for only £14000 & still make a huge profit. But the buyer only got what they paid for.
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I thought there WERE no hospital bills where they used the "£" symbol.....

 

No charge for emergencies, it's free for all. They are introducing a pay beforehand treatment scheme for non-residents in cases of health tourism, or for non emergency treatments. Yet to see how it works out in practice. There is often a considerable wait for routine surgeries and not all drugs are available on the National Health Service (NHS).

 

if the pre brexit gov approved it for sale, what else matters?

 

Off topic but I tried to answer a perceived question. Note to self. Must revise my dictionary definition of 'chat'.

 

when i was in london in '73, a friend of my sil was hit by a car, crossing the street and looking the wrong way.
she was in a huge room with many other patients, reminded me of an army hospital, but the care was excellent, and free, i believe.

 

Yes buddy, all this should I look left or right business is a nightmare! Hope you sil was ok and treated well on the hospital ward. For those who aren't familiar with the feature, wards are a bit like medically retired clinical barack rooms. We're trying to get all same sex wards for social reasons, but occasionally pressure of demand require mixing of genders in the one multi-bed room. No sniggering here please, we are British so no hanky panky, if you please!