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PIAKO MITSUBISHI TAKES OUT DIAMOND DEALER OF THE YEAR!!!
The Mitsubishi Motors Diamond Dealer Award
programme forms a significant part of our franchise activity and a
Diamond Dealer trophy is the pinnacle award that brings peer and market
recognition for overall excellence.
A Diamond Dealer award not only recognises sales success but also
brilliant performance in various other aspects of dealership operations.
At a black tie dinner event on Friday 4 May we were announced winners for 2012
Mitsubishi and Meridian launch electric car trial
10 February 2009
Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand and Meridian Energy today launched a trial of the first mass produced new generation electric vehicle to come to New Zealand - the revolutionary Mitsubishi i MiEV.
Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand chief executive John Leighton says Meridian is an ideal partner for the i MiEV project because the power company produces renewable energy and has a strong focus and commitment to sustainability.
“The i MiEV is a whole new way of thinking about transportation. It’s a new and exciting car that challenges convention, and embodies the latest developments in technological innovation. The high-power, low noise electric engine, delivers a drive unlike any vehicle on New Zealand roads.”
The i MiEV is a four door hatchback with a maximum speed of 130 kilometres, a driving range of up to 160 kilometers, and the cost to drive it is one third that of a petrol vehicle*.
This is the first collaborative effort in New Zealand between an automotive company and an electricity company.
Meridian chief executive Tim Lusk says the project is a rare opportunity for a renewable electricity company and a producer of electrically-powered vehicles to work together to showcase a new era of clean, and environmentally-responsible personal transport.
“With the growing awareness of both the economic and environmental cost of burning fossil fuels the search for viable transport alternatives has taken on a new urgency world-wide. Our goal in this evaluation project is to get New Zealanders excited about electric vehicles, so that we are one of the first countries to adopt them once they go into mass production.
“With so much of our electricity produced from renewable sources, electric vehicles offer New Zealand a real opportunity to reduce harmful emissions and make a real contribution to a cleaner, healthier environment.
“Together with Mitsubishi Motors we have secured these two prototypes of the i MiEV, some of the first available outside of Japan, and as a result New Zealanders have an opportunity to get a sneak preview.”
The i MiEV evaluation programme runs until late March and will involve demonstrations around the country.
For further information visit www.imiev.co.nz
*Japan market 10-15 mode cycle; Japan fuel and energy prices.
