Battery information & Stewardship

Understanding, Maintaining, & Recycling Your Mitsubishi Battery

At Mitsubishi Motors, we design our vehicle batteries to balance high performance, driver safety, and environmental sustainability. This guide outlines how to understand, maintain, and responsibly recycle the batteries in your vehicle.

Battery Categories and Specifications

Depending on your model and vehicle specifications, your Mitsubishi features up to three categories of batteries. All are engineered to meet strict EU safety, performance, and environmental standards.

Performance, Lifetime, and Durability

Electric and more

All automotive batteries experience natural capacity degradation over time due to operational usage, thermal exposure, and charging habits.
EV Battery Systems: Equipped with an automated Battery Management System (BMS) that optimizes operation, regulates temperature, and extends overall service life.
Best Practice: To maintain health, use approved charging equipment and follow the recommended charging profiles in your Owner’s Manual.
SLI & Portable Batteries: When replacing these batteries, you must select units that precisely match the manufacturer's original technical specifications.
Need specific details? Refer to your vehicle’s Owner’s Manual for model-specific battery capacities, maintenance schedules, and technical specifications.
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Battery Safety Information

Operating, servicing, or handling batteries requires strict adherence to safety protocols to prevent personal injury or vehicle damage.

High-Voltage Systems (EV Drive Batteries)

  • Professional Service Only: Sealed EV batteries operate at high voltages. They must only be inspected, serviced, or repaired by certified, high-voltage-trained Mitsubishi technicians.
  • Do Not Modify: Never attempt to open, modify, or repair your EV drive battery.
  • Emergency Protocol: In the event of battery damage, unusual odors, smoke, or dashboard warning alerts, pull over safely and seek professional assistance immediately.

Auxiliary & Portable Systems (SLI and Button Cells)

• Handling Precautions: Take care to prevent short circuits, electrical shocks, or chemical burns.
• Ingestion Risk: Keep button cells and small portable batteries out of reach of children. Swallowing a battery can cause severe internal burns or death.
• Safety Symbols: Always refer to the warning symbols printed on the battery casing, packaging, or accompanying documentation.

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Impact and Sustainability

We design our battery systems to minimize environmental footprint throughout their lifecycle by ensuring:
Raw Material Recovery:
We design for the recycling of valuable raw materials, including Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel, and Lead (Pb), to prevent release into environment causing harm to human health by contaminating ecosystems, soil, water, etc.”.
Regulatory Compliance:
Full alignment with current and upcoming EU legislation ]regarding battery sustainability, transparent sourcing, and carbon footprint tracking.
Circular Economy Integration:
We actively participate in battery life-extension programs, including repurposing decommissioned EV batteries for "second-life" stationary energy storage systems.

Removal, Replacement, and Disposal

Division of Labor

• DIY Permitted: Portable batteries (e.g., key fob button cells) can be safely replaced by the owner following the step-by-step guide in the Owner's Manual.
• Professional Only: EV battery packs and SLI (12V) batteries must only be removed or replaced by qualified automotive professionals. Specifically, lithium-based batteries require specialist attention and handling.

End-of-Life Recycling & Collection Used batteries are classified as hazardous waste and must not be disposed of in unsorted municipal household trash.
• The Crossed-Out Wheeled Bin: This symbol indicates that the battery must be collected separately.
• Heavy Metal Indicators: If a battery contains hazardous heavy metal concentrations above legal thresholds, you will find chemical symbols such as Cd (Cadmium) or Pb (Lead) printed beneath the bin symbol.
For information on the free-of-charge take-back, collection and recycling schemes of waste batteries in your area, please ask your local dealer or visit the website of the Mitsubishi Distributor in your market