Volkswagen Hybrid Formula XL1 Achieves 260 mpg!
At roughly the same impulse the ridiculous Pagani HowAreYa (excuse me, it’s “Huayra”) was suggested in photos, Volkswagen thumbed the nose during 700-hp cars by display off the amazing, 260-mpg Formula XL1 concept car.
In a functions for a little time, a XL1 may eventually attain a prophesy of Dr. Ferdinand Pi?ch, who, 10 years ago, set a idea of formulating the commercial automobile with the fuel consumption of 1 liter per 100 kilometers (about 235 mpg).
After several prior versions, a prototype shown during a Qatar Motor Show will “go into array production” in 2013, according to Pi?ch, now VW authority. It’s too shortly, he pronounced, to speak about quantities or price, though you can bet this carbon-fiber two-seater won’t come cheap. It is yet a breakthrough which no benefaction hybrid can compare.
VW claims to have “achieved poignant reductions in production costs” in production carbon-fiber physique parts, heretofore the high-cost component. See a press recover during a foot of this story.
A two-cylinder TDI engine (47 hp) couples with an electric engine (26 hp) and a 7-speed dual-clutch delivery to get to 62 mph in 11.9 seconds (top speed is 99 mph). The energy section is at the back of a seats—of that there are dual, side-by-side as well as accessed by gullwing doors.
The automobile weighs only 1,753 pounds as well as is 7 inches shorter than the Honda CR-Z. It recharges from domicile current as well as will run 36km (~22.5 miles) upon electric energy only.
Yes, it does look similar to GM’s EV-1, though you don’t get a 0.186 draw towards fellow by being designer-different. Anyhow, we consider it’s beautiful.
This is not the automobile for a masses. The indicate is to build the relatively tiny series, exam them out with consumers, as well as see where a technology leads. The XL1 is a epitome of plug-in hybrid tech, at slightest so distant
