Mitsubishi will be bringing this e-Yi Concept SUV to the 2019 Shanghai Motor Show next week. The e-Yi appears to be a renamed Engelberg Tourer concept that made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
Like the Engelberg Tourer, the e-Yi sports an evolved version of MMC’s Dynamic Shield face, which has been applied to everything from the Triton pick-up truck to a Japanese kei car. Soft blue lighting appears on the chrome parts of the Dynamic Shield when the plug-in hybrid vehicle is being charged or is supplying electricity to the home.
Mitsubishi says that the profile is crafted from a bold and sharp monolithic panel composition, and that the muscular fenders express flexibility and mobility. The e-Yi’s rear has a hexagonal shape formed by cut off lines, while the placement of the tail lamps across the whole width of the car promotes a look of stability. The Satin Dark Grey colour differs from the Geneva showcar’s lighter paint.
Inside, the e-Yi’s clean dashboard design uses MMC’s Horizontal Axis theme, which gives an good forward vision and adds to the open and airy sense of the cabin. The instrument cluster is a 12.3-inch LCD screen, and there’s another similarly sized screen on the centre of the dashboard.
Under the three-row SUV’s skin is MMC’s own plug-in hybrid system developed from the current system used in the Outlander PHEV. The drive battery (details not mentioned here, but the Engelberg uses a 20 kWh lithium-ion pack) is mounted under the floor in the middle of the vehicle, and there’s a motor each in the front and back. The engine is a 2.4 litre petrol unit.
In series hybrid mode, the engine acts as a high-output generator and achieves a high regeneration rate, while its large displacement and good thermal efficiency contributes to quieter operation and better fuel mileage. This concept car also uses radiator grille shutters that reduce drag and improves efficiency. The EV cruising range is 70 km in the latest WLTP cycle. Together with a full tank of fuel, the system has a total cruising range of over 700 km.
The e-Yi Concept uses MMC’s Twin Motor full-time 4WD system with e-motors driving wheels at both ends. The carmaker says that it employed knowhow gathered from the Lancer Evolution series, and features like Active Yaw Control and Super All-Wheel Control (S-AWC) are present.
Lastly, Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) supports the driver on highways by assisting the operation of the accelerator, brakes and steering. The connected car system links up with the driver’s smartphone, and uses information from various services on the weather, temperature, topography, traffic information and road conditions expected on the trip to select the optimum route.
The Mitsubishi e-Yi/Engelberg Tourer looks rather production ready if you mentally delete the obvious showcar bling. Like what you see?
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Pity we cerai with Mitsubishi. Otherwise we will be having so many Mitsubishi cars as Proton. Imagine, Proton Outlander etc
Mitsubishi had no choice but to leave Proton because Proton could not answer the transfer of technology.
No pity at all. Virtually all Mitsubishi models are outdated, we have stop producing Inspira while Mitsubishi is still pushing out the antiquated Lancer. Going with Geely we can see Proton have such a good car from the get go. No current Mitsubishi cars in the world have as much features and specs as the X70. Meanwhile Mitsubishi is turned into a Nissan sub-brand. Now that is the real pity.
Could not answer the transfer of technology? You just pulled that out of your behind. Proton wanted contemporary techs from Mitsu to continue the partnership back then. But Mitsu would only give older techs for a hefty amount of money. Mitsu treated Malaysia only as money tree, the same way Toyota treating Perodua.
This means our lembap GLC DRB never negotiated a better deal for the rakyat of Malaysia.
20 years ago, Mitsubishi cars had 8 airbags all over the world. But in Malaysia we had no airbag or at most 2 airbags.
Whose fault? You cannot blame Mitsubishi. They wanted to maximise profits. Blame it on our GLC who could not negotiate properly
Mitsubishi is the principal and provider, if they didn’t want to provide their technology on par with what they are using, the GLC should have walked away but they had no choice but forced to accept this uneven negotiation. Why were they forced? Because of a certain old man who forced his wet dreams down the GLC and Mitsubishi knew this. The GLC had no power or standing to negotiate properly not because they were lembap but because that old man was lembap.
e-Yi? sounds like a xiaomi product ^^