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"At the Tokyo Motor Show, we&amp;#039;re seeing the World Premiere of the Mitsubishi Concept PX-MiEV. And, in this case, just about every letter of its name has meaning. The &amp;quot;P&amp;quot; signifies &amp;quot;plug-in hybrid,&amp;quot; Mitsubishi&amp;#039;s take on hybrid technology that&amp;#039;s capable of charging its battery from a remote source. The &amp;quot;X&amp;quot; stands for &amp;quot;crossover,&amp;quot; the increasingly trendy genre that&amp;#039;s not as trucklike as a conventional SUV, yet a bit more off-roadable than what we used to call &amp;quot;station wagons.&amp;quot; (Come to think of it, we rarely drove them to stations anyway.)   The &amp;quot;MiEV&amp;quot; portion is actually a bit misleading. It&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;M&amp;quot; as in Mitsubishi, fair enough. But the real MiEV is an &amp;quot;i&amp;quot; minicar, a Japanese kei car, with purely electric propulsion, the &amp;quot;EV&amp;quot; portion. To complete nomenclatural matters, the i-MiEV is the production version of this electrified kei. And see nearby for word of the World Premiere of Mitsubishi&amp;#039;s i-MiEV Cargo.   The PX-MiEV is a full hybrid, i.e., capable of purely EV mode up to moderate road speeds. This propulsion is primarily front-drive, though it switches automatically to rear electric drive as well when sensors detect front-wheel slip. When the battery pack reaches its lower limit, the PX-MiEV transforms itself into series hybrid mode. Here, its 1.6-liter dohc inline-4 powers a generator which in turn provides electricity for the front and rear motors.   At higher road speed, the PX-MiEV operates in parallel hybrid mode, its gasoline powerplant helping to drive the wheels. The pair of electric motors provides a stability control feature as well as propulsion. (Note: This is unlike the purely series hybrid &amp;quot;extended-range electric&amp;quot; operation of the Chevrolet Volt.)   Like all hybrids, the PX-MiEV has regenerative coasting and braking, where energy is returned to the battery pack. As a plug-in, it can also recharge this battery through a suitable 100- or 200-volt electrical outlet or, if available, a dedicated high-power quick-charging station.   The PX-MiEV also has a &amp;quot;Smart Grid&amp;quot; feature, capable of storing energy on-board and later accessed for power home applications. It would also find use as a power source in periods of electrical outage, no trivial matter in a country like Japan threatened not infrequently by earthquakes. If battery level falls beyond a particular point, the PX-MiEV&amp;#039;s gasoline engine automatically fires up. Last, the car has an auxiliary 100-volt AC socket in its rear luggage compartment, just the thing for quite civilized camping.   At this point, note, the PX-MiEV is termed a Concept car. But its alphabetical nomenclature contains so many promising features that I&amp;#039;d expect a production version before long. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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