3. Mitsubishi i-MiEV – 588 copies sold
There has been a lot of chatter from automotive executives and pundits about why electric cars haven’t yet gained traction. Of the three current all-electric offerings – Ford Focus Electric, Nissan Leaf, and Mitsubishi i-MiEV — the i-MiEV has fared the worst. Whereas the Nissan Leaf sold just shy of 10,000 units (and the Focus EV wasn’t on sale for all of 2012), the egg-shaped Mitsubishi only managed 588 sales in 2012. Much of the blame can be placed on two factors: Mitsubishi’s small dealer network and the fact that, from behind the wheel, the i-MiEV feels more like a grown-up golf cart than a scaled-down car.
