Mitsubishi Motors said last week it plans to launch the i-MiEV, a four-door electric car, in Japan starting in July.
Plans are for the vehicle to be marketed to corporate customers, with Mitsubishi hoping to produce about 2,000 of the electric cars by March, 2010. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mitsubishi plans to ramp up to 30,000 electric cars per year by 2013, as part of a move that would ultimately boost its EV production to 20% of its overall volume by 2020.
Powered by lithium-ion batteries, the i-MiEV (Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) will reportedly go 100 miles on a charge and will take seven hours to recharge at 15 A and 200 V, or 14 hours at 15A and 100 V. Curb weight of the vehicle will be 2,376 lbs. Reuters reports that it will cost $47,580.
The debate over unintended acceleration, having lingered around the periphery of the auto industry for more than two decades, may be about to receive a fatal blow.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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