Five million Mitsubishi cars produced at Okazaki

For Mitsubishi Motors Corporation's (MMC) Okazaki plant near Nagoya, Japan, the success of the Outlander PHEV in Europe (18,644 sold units - January to November 2014, making it the best-selling plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in the region) took another dimension as the plant celebrated its five millionth vehicle produced since 1977 - a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV.

Tetsuro Aikawa (MMC's President & COO) formally presented this milestone Outlander PHEV to Yasuhiro Uchida (Mayor of Okazaki City), to be used as a self-sufficient, EV-based, 4WD emergency vehicle in case of a natural disaster.

Located next to MMC's global R&D centre, the 425,000 square metres Okazaki plant is one of the three Mitsubishi Motors vehicle production bases in Japan with nearly 1,600 staff building Outlander, Outlander PHEV and ASX. During FY13, Okazaki produced 174,000 vehicles.