Monday, May 23, 2011

Audi A1 and-tron: a small "extended range"

After the news released by Audi on a future generation of energy centers and storage facilities designed to produce electricity through wind turbines that will assemble and 1000 Audi A1-tron and food for 10,000 km, the smallest of the Audi - with the scheme to extended-range EREV - back to prominence and then approaches unequivocally its debut on the market for the foreseeable future.

The Audi A1-tron and is powered by an electric engine capable of 102 hp and 240 Nm of torque and powered by lithium ion batteries from 12 kwh, positioned between the two axles under the floor of the car, which can be recharged through a 380-volt power outlet, hidden behind the front bezel.

With a complete cycle of charging, the e-tron can travel in all-electric mode up to 50 km and in case you want to increase battery life and you do not have a column in the vicinity of charge, comes into operation an additional petrol engine Wankel type 250 cc (15 KW) which increases the average range up to 200 km, recording of the average consumption of 1.9 l/100km, according to data reported by the House.

Your use of the rotary engine invented by Felix Wankel in 1957 and revived in 1987 with the Mazda RX8, lowers weight and size of the engines than a traditional engine of equal power. Despite the complex mechanics and the presence of heavy pack lithium batteries, the Audi engineers have managed to keep the weight of the car in just 1190 kg.

According to data reported by the German House and the A1-tron makes a step from 0 to 100 km / h in just 10.2 seconds while top speed is 130 km / h. Even if the manufacturer has not released some news on the production time for this revolutionary car, continue testing business which involves the A1-tron in an interesting project carried out by Audi in collaboration with the University of Monaco and the energy companies E.

ON and SWM, which is working in 2011 as many as 20 specimens of the small EREV assigned to as many testers called to prove the quality of the car, in the Bavarian town.

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