Volvo presented at the Geneva Motor Show (March 3 to 13), the "world's first" diesel plug-in hybrid. The car based on the Volvo V60 station wagon is to consume "in theory" only about 1.9 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers.
The combination, which is based on the new V60 is, in the spring of 2012 to go to the sales start. The vehicle manufacturer is reportedly both exclusively with diesel and electric power alone. As an electric car it has a range of 50 kilometers, a hybrid vehicle, it has a consumption of 1.9 liters per 100 kilometers and a CO2 emission of 49 grams per kilometer, they say.
This fable are the results of the current cycle of the EU for "vehicles with hybrid electric drive" (ECE-R 101), a complicated calculation procedure, which simply put is a mean value of the fuel consumption with a fully charged or uncharged battery.
Diesel front, rear electric motor
Practice consumption in hybrid mode is likely to be somewhat higher, eventually to the front wheels are on the full 158 kW/215 hp of the current 2.4-liter five-cylinder turbo diesel Volvo. It transmits its power through a six-speed automatic.
The rear axle is an electric motor operates with 51 kW/70 hp, which draws its power from a lithium-ion battery with a capacity of twelve kilowatt hours. The electric drive mode the V60 is therefore a rear-wheel drive, while being driven in hybrid mode on all four wheels.
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