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Sunday March 4, 2012
Green adjure
By LEE twinge SENG 
star2@thestar.com.my

The economical eco-friendly electric car by Mitsubishi comes in a cute package.
IF YOU are staying at the Four Seasons Resort in Langkawi, dont be surprised if you are offered the give of an electric car to go around the island. The resort, famed for its eco-friendly operations, has teamed up with Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) to raise public awareness of the i-MiEV electric car.
Under the ecotourism campaign, hotel guests would be loaned an i-MiEV for a round-the-island drive or to explore some of Langkawis tourist spots. The campaign runs for two months from Feb 23.
This is just the start.
Battery include: Mitsubishis i-MiEV has a 150km range on a fully-charged battery.
gibe to MMM chief executive officer Tetsuya Oda, the company will enwrap more campaigns to create a buzz about EV use and public feedback on how the EV could benefit them flush more.
We will promote EV motoring with our two road-registered i-MiEVs in the Klang Valley as the next phase of the project, he says.
The Langkawi campaign was planned much earlier but it took a year to get the i-MiEV registered.
The Road Transport Department initially did non k straightway how to tax an EV for road use.




Eventually, it gazetted a approach pattern to tax the EV based on power produce in kilowatt (kW) instead of engine capacity now used in calculating road tax for flatulency and diesel cars.
For the i-MiEV, it works out be about RM50 a year based on its maximum output of 49kW (66bhp) from 2,500rpm to 8,000rpm.
Our novel drive in the i-MiEV from the Four Seasons Resort to a town nearby and back continued to impress us on the good road performance of the EV. The journey covered a distance of 8km.
We started with about three-quarters of a tank, so to speak, as indicated by a bar graph in the clear window on the left of a three-meter cock panel.
Its three-meter instrument panel has the energy gauge (left panel), the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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