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After 12 years, Mitsubishi kills the i-MiEV electric car
It must be canceling season in Japan right now. First we found out the shocking news that Honda is withdrawing from Formula 1 at the end of 2021. Now, it's the Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric vehicle's turn.
Nikkei reports that the automaker is calling time on this diminutive battery EV this year, quoting an unnamed executive as saying, "We didn't have enough money and personnel to continue investing in EV development."
Unlike the Honda news, the only real surprise here is that the i-MiEV was even still in production. Mitsubishi has only managed to sell 32,000 of them since 2009, and here in the US sales of the i-MiEV ended in 2017.
As it happens, the i-MiEV was the first car I reviewed for Ars Technica, way back in July 2011.
Read the whole news at arstechnica.com