Hybrid Cars: Mitsubishi Unveils New ASX and Surprises With Its Engine Options

Written by Bruno Teles

Published on 26/09/2022 at 21:31

Carros híbridos (Foto/divulgação)

1 person reacted to this.

At The Start Of The Hybrid Car Market, Mitsubishi Shared Various Items From The French Car

Last week, Mitsubishi unveiled its new model, the ASX, which looks very similar to the Renault Captur. Trying to get ahead in the hybrid car market, the vehicle was built on the same platform as the French model, the CFM-B, and the Japanese car shares the same items: “C” shaped headlights, hood, wheels, and the design of the rear.

While it is somewhat curious, there are no issues between the two manufacturers due to the Alliance conglomerate, which includes Mitsubishi, Niss an d Renault. The agreement specifies technology sharing among the automakers, which also means that hybrid cars will be more alike across brands. However, Mitsubishi took the agreement to the maximum. The difference between the Captur and the new ASX is the front grille, which will not have horizontal slats but rather vertical bars. Regarding the vehicle’s dimensions, the width has increased to 1.80 meters from 1.73 of the previous version.

Hybrid Cars From Mitsubishi Stand Out For Their Options

The hybrid car engines stand out for the quality of options available, as there are five. Two of them are mild hybrid cars, in addition to a conventional hybrid. There are also plug-in hybrid and combustion options. In the most basic version, the ASX is equipped with a 1.0 turbo engine producing 92 hp and 16.31 kgfm, with a six-speed manual transmission. In the mild hybrids, the combustion engine remains the same, at 1.3 liters. In the smaller model, the power output is 139 hp, with torque of 26.5 kgfm. In the larger version, we have 158 hp and 27.5 kgfm. In the full hybrid version, there is a 1.6 four-cylinder combustion engine, which operates at high speed as a generator for the 1.3 kWh battery.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

Hybrid Cars: Mitsubishi Unveils New ASX and Surprises With Its Engine Options

At The Start Of The Hybrid Car Market, Mitsubishi Shared Various Items From The French Car

Hybrid Cars From Mitsubishi Stand Out For Their Options

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

In the USA, thousands of people are being paid to wash dishes and clean the house with body cameras, every movement turning into data to train robots to imitate humans, in a new “digital gig” that could redefine the future of domestic work.

A 33-year-old from Paraná received a quote of R$ 12,000 just for the structural base of the house, opened tutorials on YouTube, and transformed a family plot into a 200 m² two-story house for about half the price charged by professionals.

It was neither a crash nor abandonment; this retired plane left the airport in parts, crossed Costa Rica on trucks, and ended up becoming a suite in the heights with daily rates exceeding R$ 2,000.

At 22 years old, a young person from Recife creates an artificial intelligence startup with a team barely over 25, serves giants like Bayer and Ipiranga, earns millions without taking a cent from investors, and transforms a young company into a national AI phenomenon.

She panicked when she saw her daughter fall from the crib; years later, she turned the experience into a factory generating R$ 9 million per year.

Hybrid Cars: Mitsubishi Unveils New ASX and Surprises With Its Engine Options

At The Start Of The Hybrid Car Market, Mitsubishi Shared Various Items From The French Car

Hybrid Cars From Mitsubishi Stand Out For Their Options

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

Used Civic and Corolla have been stuck in stock for months. “People are preferring Chinese cars,” says the car dealership owner.

Toyota Sienna becomes a “VIP lounge on wheels” in Brazil after receiving a Chinese luxury kit, seats with massage, Starlink, refrigerator, and a 245 hp hybrid engine, targeting high-income families, artists, and executive transport in an almost million-dollar van.

Two new 300cc models from QJ Motor are expected to arrive in Brazil as SBM to target the CB 300F and shake up the low-displacement market, with more power and liquid cooling than Honda.

Camaro may reappear in 2027, but not as you remember: Chevrolet prepares the return of the icon with four doors, manual transmission, and an extreme performance version to face the new era of sports cars.

Is the BYD Song Pro worth it? The Anderson Sincero channel says it doesn’t exceed R$ 140,000, and the price dropped by R$ 47,000, reinforcing the depreciation of the plug-in hybrid in the Fipe table.

In the USA, thousands of people are being paid to wash dishes and clean the house with body cameras, every movement turning into data to train robots to imitate humans, in a new “digital gig” that could redefine the future of domestic work.

A 33-year-old from Paraná received a quote of R$ 12,000 just for the structural base of the house, opened tutorials on YouTube, and transformed a family plot into a 200 m² two-story house for about half the price charged by professionals.

It was neither a crash nor abandonment; this retired plane left the airport in parts, crossed Costa Rica on trucks, and ended up becoming a suite in the heights with daily rates exceeding R$ 2,000.

At 22 years old, a young person from Recife creates an artificial intelligence startup with a team barely over 25, serves giants like Bayer and Ipiranga, earns millions without taking a cent from investors, and transforms a young company into a national AI phenomenon.

She panicked when she saw her daughter fall from the crib; years later, she turned the experience into a factory generating R$ 9 million per year.