MIA is back – well, sort of. The Franco-Swiss EV manufacturer is being revived by Fox e-mobility and it hopes to bring an updated 2.0 version of the MIA to market by 2023. Fox is aiming for a starting price of around 16,000 Euros, a little more than a Fiat 500, for its three-seater minivan.
Fox is promising a new design for the MIA
2.0, but it seems like it will be based on the MIA. The actual shape of the MIA
is a little hard to explain. The idea, apparently, was to make a small car with
a big interior, which sounds all well and good. Except, it has a centrally
mounted driver’s seat, which eliminates a seat immediately. It also only has
two sliding doors. That’s fun and might be useful in a French parking lot, but
also sounds like a nightmare to get out through.
Regardless, the shape means it can carry a
lot and, since 2011, more than a thousand of these made their way into customer
garages. Meanwhile the plan is to build on the little van, according to Fox
e-mobility’s CTO, Dr Chrstian Jung, to get a running start.
The business model will be three-pronged,
according to the company. There will, of course, be the sale of the MIA 2.0,
licensing to companies that want to make the MIA outside of Europe, and the
sale of CO2 credits. The original MIA was produced from 2011 to 2015, when Mia
Electric went bankrupt. Since then, the company changed hands a few times. In
any case, it now plans to sell the MIA 2.0 in all major European markets.
