Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The new hybrid system, which combines a gasoline direct injection V6 from Audi with an electric motor and eight-speed automatic transmission, uses a NiMH battery pack and can cruise at high speed on electric power, although only for about 2 km. Porsche is also developing a parallel hybrid variant of the Cayenne.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

VW, Daimler subsidiary Daug and Varta developed a NimH battery in the early 90s, and the VW group put the Audi duo hybrid on the road in 1997. Saying that “ electric alone is not enough ” Winterkorn said that for the next 15-20 years in Europe, diesel and gasoline engines will dominate. Martin Winterkorn.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

liter V6 TSI—a direct injection gasoline engine boosted by a mechanically-driven supercharger—in tandem with an electric motor and mated with a newly developed 8-speed automatic transmission. 100km (26 mpg US) for the full-size SUV—about a 25% improvement in city driving over a conventional gasoline SUV of the same size.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

Thus, hybrid market penetration will likely increase only modestly in the near term, but as costs drop hybrids will become just another technology that manufacturers sell on its positive efficiency and drivability impacts, not on the technology itself, similar to what is currently occurring with turbocharged gasoline engines.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. No announced plans. Detroit News ).

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