Tuesday, May 10, 2011

BMW: X5 ActiveHybrid will already this year?

There is still no official confirmation, but according to the latest rumors, BMW could bring to the market, before the end of this year, its X5 ActiveHybrid variant, or a hybrid version of the famous home of the SUV elite. There are solutions borrowed from the X6 ActiveHybrid, with which the hybrid variant of the X5 only shares the similarity, indeed, to be precise is already known that the hearts of these cars or their engines, will be completely different, in fact, while the X6 is equipped with a 4.4 liter engine with twin-turbo V8 architecture and gasoline engine, the X5 will instead under its hood a turbodiesel quadricilindrico assisted by an electric motor, thus becoming the first diesel-hybrid cars of the BMW brand.

This X5 ActiveHybrid mutuerà various solutions from X5 Vision EfficientDynamics concept car brought to the Geneva Motor Show of 2008, in fact, the new hybrid Teutonic will be equipped with just a 2.0-liter twin-turbo diesel engine, capable of developing a power of 204 hp and a torque of 400 Nm, which must be added torque and power developed by the electric motor or 20 hp and 210 Nm according to official data released by BMW, the prototype proved capable of reaching 100 km / with step h from standstill in 8.9 seconds of time, with a consumption of 6.5 l/100 km, all with the values of CO2 content within the 172 g / km.

Therefore it is assumed that the serial version, exactly the X5 ActiveHybrid, should not deviate much from these values.

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