Is a Plug-in Hybrid Right For YOU? | 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2020
- Hybrids and electric cars are becoming increasingly popular and can truly save a lot of fuel. Plug-in hybrids put both of those together for an ideal type of vehicle with the benefits of each. Electric only driving is available but the gas engine can run when needed to keep going or give you more power. This 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV offers just that, the ability to drive efficiently and still be practical. In this video I tell you whether or not it would fit your lifestyle and give you a long test drive explaining how a plug in hybrid works and what it's like to drive it.
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As a '19 model Euro spec owner (13.8kWh and 2.4l engine 135 hp) here are my top issues to add to this review:
1 - BMU issue - all have this issue (mine starting losing capacity after just 7 charges)
2 - Dealer / service support (after you buy it, no one knows how to work on this model - I have open tickets even in Japan with little or no success)
3 - very bad app that works only on WI-FI and can disable your alarm (MMC are at their 4th attempt and still 1 star in Play Store)
4 - engine works in Atkinson circle only below 2500rpm, so above 75mpg, I had fuel economy as low as 15mpg
5 - 11 gallon fuel tank
6 - Quick Changing stations only works at 1/3 (15 kWh) of they installed capacity (50 kWh) because of the small battery, this is the reason why it takes 20 minutes to charge with 15 miles
7 - Quick Charging to 80% battery capacity is actually 70% State of Charge of battery (Mitsubishi software)
8 - The battery can not be discharged below 30% (around 11 Amps)
9 - Charge current can not be set
10 - Max battery Amps that can be used when you quick change the car is 24 from a 46 battery
11 - Battery does not charge fully on below freezing days
12 - Real winter EV range as low as 11 miles (Normal driving, heater ON), summer 22-24 no A/C or 15-16 with A/C on
13 - Very bad paint (already chips on hood and rust on hinges and beneath the car)
14 - NO where to put the phone
15 - Infotainment system freezes almost every drive
16 - Slope boot (everything comes rolling over you when you open it)
17 - Drives like a boat (especially above 55mph)
18 - Beeps all the time
19 - Very expensive parts (Auxiliary normal 12v battery - dealer 1100 dollar no labor)
20 - Ride is hard on bumpy roads
21 - NO automatically closings the windows when you lock the car
22 - Battery is air cooled no liquid cooled
23 - Electric tailgate is very slow
24 - Not all the interior buttons and switches are illuminated (lock / unlock, mirrors, lighter, etc)
25 - NO automatically unlock if you pull on the handle, you have to press the button
26 - SAWD is a joke, I got stuck in 4 inches of sand
27 - NO State of charge in percentage
28 - Initial EV range available on display is just a guss
29 - NO way to secure the chargin cable
30 - Battery can not be charged to a specific value (like 90%) only for a specific time (like 2 hours)
Wow thank you for all of the information!
thanks for all your input.
The only way this car is in the least way efficient/economical is if you plug in every night or whenever at home. Car was sold to me with the incorrect advice of ability to use an extension cord forgetting to mention warranty would void if any issues arise using an extension. Not being able to plug in the car renders it a VERY inefficient hybrid. I'm in battle at the moment with the dealership over this misrepresentation.
Yolanda Williamson you can use extensions just make sure its 13amp.
I personally charge it at my local services.
Its funny how the dashboard says 1 mile left however the fast charging unit says 25-30%. This is a secret juice left in the battery. Its only available if you run out of petrol. The car automatically switches back to full electric on low speed or at red lights even if you have no miles left. The fast charger charge it up to 80% in 25 min, also couple of miles on a motorway charges it pretty quickly. Many people compare this car to a normal hybrid m, however this car is a lot better and cooler as you can drive it purely on electric.
Hope that Mitsubishi note all 30 points and get them fixed in a new model. (The hardest part is done - now just need to be fixed and released for a new happy clients!)
I love the idea of a plug-in hybrid. I drive from Texas to South Dakota a couple of times per year and an Electric Car just wouldn’t work for me to do that. A plug in hybrid allows you to do mostly electric driving in town, but still affords you the ability to travel long distances using the hybrid system like normal. This Outlander just doesn’t have very good total driving range, but it could work for a lot of people!
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Best review I've seen.
Well done 👍
I like the diamond stitch seating. The hybrid option is good. Excellent review my friend 👍
Thank ya sir! Have a great weekend Key! 😁👍
I don't really think the Infotainment screen is "Outdated", but rather simple to be honest.
Excellent review 🙌🙌
Your voice sounds just fine, no worries 😉
I really love your reviews 😊 ... Thanks so much for sharing ... Hope you can make comparisons between 2020 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and others cars 🚘 it would be awesome 👏
Ada Smith thank you Ada! I appreciate it 😁. I won’t be able to have them side by side but I drove the 2019 RAV4 hybrid last year...it definitely had better handling and acceleration, felt pretty solid. I’m excited for the RAV4 Prime though!
Great review Nolan. Nice looking SUV. Very popular in Northern Ireland, though diesel version is usually the most popular. That might change though with the hybrid version and anti-diesel sentiments in Europe.
Thank you sir! That’s interesting, too bad we don’t have the diesel available here. Thanks for stopping by! 😁👍
Funny to see the differences between different regions and how the car is equipped.
We got a 2020 mid-spec Outlander PHEV, live in Denmark.
Biggest change is that we have the 2,4 litre petrol engine, whics is SO much Better than the old 2,0 litre.
Also some buttons and other things are different.
Car Prices here are quite high, we paid 56K USD for a mid-spec. The RAV4 hybrid mid spec is 80K USD and still isnt a Plug-In, just a regular hybrid. We are very happy with the Outlander 😁
That’s awesome to hear, glad you’re happy with it!
Benny Gade What is your impression with the car so far? I’m also in Denmark and considering the Outlander. It would be great to get some first hand info from an existing owner. Any surprises or complaints?
At present there really isn’t anything that comes close to it in terms of price and size/specs. However the brand new Ford Kuga PHEV is about to go on sale, so that has made me a bit reluctant about the Outlander. I feel the Outlander looks better, though. Kuga is pretty bland looking.
Damn, why is the Outlander and RAV4 so expensive in Denmark? US prices are just over half that for like models.
Very helpful 👍
Thank you!
Got used 2014 model and so far I am very satisfied. My daily commute is about 25km so I'm able to commute in EV mode (not in winter as you need to use ICE in order to heat the cabin).
That’s awesome! Glad to hear it!
Best review
Thank you! 😁
Hope you do a review on the RAV4 prime PHEV when it comes out in the summer.
I will as soon as I can 😁👍
6:33 is why i would buy Lexus/Toyota before Mitsubishi. I tried to give this thing a go; also for quirks and features, leaving those cup holders in the storage area was just laziness form a design standpoint.
Nice review. This thing has buttons all over the place.
Thank you!
use your steering toggle switch to alter radio volume, no need to touch the screen
Very nice car
I suppose this would make sense for someone who wanted a no frills EV, but only as a lease...the resale value on this would be dismal at best. The only reason to buy a Mitsubishi now a days is because it’s the only thing they can get you in. Lol. Kudos to Mitsubishi for building this, but it really needs a redesign bad. Mitsubishi could be a neat little niche automaker if they’d get it together. Maybe a cheaper alternative to a Mazda for instance. Anyhow, you did a great job on this review. Very informative and detailed. 👏
I totally agree with that too. They just don’t sell well at all here. Thank ya sir, I appreciate it and have a great weekend! 👍
You obviously don't have any idea how resale value works.
The 2021 Outlander will be released VERY soon.
This is the biggest selling Phev in the world and has sold over a million units, that's a bit better than a "little niche automaker" .
Ive just tested a 2015 phev with 10,000km on the clock It is a failure as a 4wd as it wont pull out of the soft sand on the beach where as the 2.4 petrol only model petrol will.. it is a fast powerful car... the 2.4 engine and the electric motors add up to 200kw of power.. it dosnt feel anything like that but still much faster than the 2.4 petrol only model, maybe its weight.. Try pulling a caravan up a steep hill doing a hill start.. wont do it.. or towing it off a muddy soft paddock where all the wheels have sunk a little, it will rev up a bit but it appears too high geared to get going.. it is a great machine for other purposes though.
What does GX mean/stand for in the outlander models? Anyone can tell me?
I have a 2015 model but it doesn’t have EV button just the charge button and save battery button wonder on how to drive just on EV mode in town commute
Cool SUV for Boston.
Rented the regular outlander three times. Simply speaking, it’s the most boring car, but mpg is the best and dealer discount is amazing
What I have found over the years buying cars is they all become fairly boring after owning them for a while.
I like this, but 22 mile range is too low for me. I drive about 75/ day. So, I think 50 would be my minimum
Thank you for the review. But you should really learn about EVs and the regen.
Can you tell me if cruise control works in EV mode? I just test drove one, and it told me in no uncertain terms that cruise control wouldn't work in EV.
Japanese domestic model phev the cruise control is available on ev mode, which is also adaptive cruise control
Thanks for that confirmation, @@sunilr.desilva5078. It doesn't seem to make sense that it wouldn't be, but I am very firm that I saw the message telling me it wasn't available. I asked the dealer rep at the time but he had no idea ;-) I wonder if there was some other issue, or mode, in place that I wasn't aware of.
@@julianopificius6910 Good morning NZ time Julian ! I read the 1st comment. 30 issues with the SUV. I guess we could do that list with any vehicle.
How do you find the vehicle personally?
NZ
You are missing in your review the fact that this car loses the acceleration when is going up hills for more than 10 miles since the cell battery gets depleted and at that point, the fan stop working and gets overheated. Did you try to go up hills in this car for more than 10 miles?
I did, better acceleration. I enjoy uphill drive more than plain road. This is my seventh year.my issue is reduced ev range, 25 kilometers now, I have done 225,000 kilometers
I want one where I drive into my garage onto a charging pad. I don’t want to mess around with any cables. I am lazy. 🤓😀
Leo the short guy no kidding that would be great haha. Wireless car charger!
Seriously though, I have two plugs in my garage...and of course the side I first pulled into didn’t have one. I though each wall had one but nope! How annoying lol 😂
Prime Autotainment Cables are so 2019.
is it available in 7 seater in UK?
Another reviewer said no it isn’t.
Not enough EV range.
Debating between Venza hybrid, rx350 lexus and outlander phev??? 🙄🙄
Depends how bad you want the plug in aspect. Could include the RAV4 Prime as well if that’s the case. The current outlander PHEV doesn’t feel nearly as nice as the other two, but the newest redesigned outlander is pretty nice and there’s a new outlander PHEV coming soon too.
@@PrimeAutotainment when u said the new outlander its pretty nice you are referung to the 2020 or 2021?
To be honest the phev its a plus on the outlander but the only reason I started looking at outlander its because people talk good about it and pretty much the price compare to lexus or venza. I can probably get a 2021 or a 2022 outlander for the same price as a 2018 rx 350. Lexus are pretty nice and supper reliable so its the venza very nice interior too. It looks like I can get more car for price with outlander?? However I have seen lots of complaints about how outdated the inside of the outlande is😥
Iam also afraid of reliability issues. Although I have read that Mitsubishi has a 10 year warranty🙄... is it bumper to bumper?
Regenerative braking has to be controlled manually?!?! WTF?!
It will still use the regenerative brakes without using the paddles, but you can control it with the paddles to brake more. I should have explained that more, my bad! I’d you don’t ever use the paddles it will still recharge automatically for you 👍
@@PrimeAutotainment ...OK, so that makes a hell of a lot more sense!!! In that case, it seems like it could be a pretty cool feature! Still, don't most hybrids still use the regenerative feature primarily even when stepping on the brake pedal? On my first hybrid even (2006 Mercury Mariner Hybrid), you could see the charge indicator shoot up when you braked, and I recall that if you slowed down real slowly, you could definitely feel exactly when the actual brake pads activated...it was only in the last few MPH of slowdown. (I had that vehicle for almost 8 years and never had to change the brake pads!)
I would perhaps liken it to using the tranny to slow down by downshifting (but with the positive result of recovering the energy!) I used to make a game of this when I was driving a stick back in the day...how little can I actually use my brakes while driving around town?! That practice came right back into good use more recently when I desperately needed my brake pads changed and used the manual mode on my transmission to minimize the grinding!!!
Who the heck designed that car 😂😂
Those back seats look like Mitsubishi copied the design of a park bench. There's no contouring at all; anyone made to sit back there will feel like they're being punished.
People still buy Mitsubishi
Simple.. Not for me at all
Mitsu is a morphydite auto co. Dealers are few and far between for service.
Mitsubishi sucks.... The only car this people made that was good was the Montero other than that they suck.
Very pure quality. Garbage vehicle 🚗
Poor engineering by Mitsubishi...what was in their minds when they engineered such garbage...I could just buy Pajero 3.2did and have same consumption and a true Off road car.
I hate hybrids! I hate hybrids! I hate hybrids! I HATE HYBRIDS!!!! Did I mention that I hate hybrids? And the pretentious yuppie wannabes who drive them!
The Outlander especially in phev form has always been a mediocre car lagging way behind and should be totally avoided as not up-to-date being way back from class leaders. Mitsubishi verging on bankruptcy, pulling out of Europe to try and survive only selling off cars already here in 2021. They struggled in 2020 to sell only 4,700 cars every 6 months in the U.K. as range of cars are so bad. Now relying on Nissan to develop newer version cars for Asia and Americas for the immediate task of surviving for a doubtful future.