Thursday, January 27, 2011

Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid

Besides safety, the environment seems to be one of the main lines on which future policy will aim at Volvo. In the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, the Swedish company will present the V60 Plug-in Hybrid, ie plug-in hybrid version of the model family. Can you imagine a vehicle with bodywork households spending less than 2, l/100 km of fuel? Now, Volvo has developed this model with the V60 prototype Plug-in Hybrid, plug-in hybrid version of the car officially debut in the 2011 edition of the Geneva Motor Show.

Concretely, Volvo has announced a diesel consumption of only 1.9 l/100 km with CO2 emission level below 50 g / km. The V60 Plug-in Hybrid would start shipping in 2012. What do you think? Leave your comments, the most interesting will be published in the journal Hwy. Alternatively, this news debate on our forums.

This versatile family-V60 Plug-in Hybrid can move up to 50 miles in one hundred percent power mode. In the front, it features a 2.5-D5 turbodiesel five-cylinder 215 hp, while the rear axle is placed an electric motor ERAD (Electric Rear Axle Drive) 70 hp. The power of this hybrid is stored in a lithium ion battery capacity of 12 kWh.

The type of change that incorporates this variation is a six-speed automatic transmission. The V60 battery Plug-in Hybrid can be recharged to the home network. However, when Volvo announced the approximate time it takes to charge fully. Although the Scandinavian firm has not said, it is assumed that the V60 Plug-in Hybrid incorporating device systems such as regenerative braking, a system that captures kinetic energy generated under braking or deceleration, turns it into electricity and stores it finally on drums.

Finally, neither has officially announced that the hybrid version mount the start / stop of stop-start engine, although it is assumed that if I take that device.

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