Opel The company has submitted to the autoshow in Frankfurt (in September) a new conceptual model Flextreme. Innovation is the common elements and technology from the U.S. Chevrolet Volt and a strategy based on E-Flex Concern General Motors, which is to use a single architecture for different car engine, depending on what energy resources is a region.
A small slow-moving vehicles economize on fuel, is gradually disappearing in the past. Today, every major avtovystavke represent a new concept of green super car that uses a hybrid system, or electricity, providing him little fuel, but retain the speed Ferrari. Did the developers betting that one of them «wild» concept cars will be a real car with fuel? Most likely, no. But, nevertheless, with the advent of each new «green» race car appearance of hybrids and electric vehicles for the drivers is becoming a little more attractive. First of all, it is worth noting two favorites Tesla Roadster Fisker Karma, are not included in the six declared. These two incredibly fast the car had already left the fancy-level concepts.
Yet, it is worth remembering that in the real world, one of the most effective ways to save fuel – a movement according to speed limits.
At the Frankfurt exhibition (13-23 September 2007) Voholl the company introduced a number of vehicles have low fuel consumption and low exhaust emissions per cent. These models demonstrate how automotive technology will look in the near future: at kontseptkare Korsa an innovative technology that is different starter-generator and an automatic transmission – all of this together ensures the carbon dioxide emissions 99g/km. At the Frankfurt show also debuted Flekspauer Vectra model is equipped with 2-liter turbodvigatelem able to operate on bio-ethanol or gasoline in the mixture.
Soon the company will present vehicles Voholl number ekofleks characterized the lowest carbon dioxide emissions in their model number. The first of these – a hybrid Korsa capacity of 75 l / s with an engine 1.3 CDTI ecoFLEX with diesel filter microparticles, for the first time will see the Europeans coming to the exhibition. Since December 2007, 5-door, fully equipped vehicle Korsa will go on sale, its performance on emissions amount to 119g. per km.
Analytical company Yano Research Institute, investigating the market for hybrid cars, made the forecast, which should be expected 16-fold growth in the market of hybrid cars over the next ten years – from 320 thousand in 2005 to 5 million 370 thousand in 2015-m. Analysts note that if you have a hybrid electric models were presented to the CD class, it has recently begun to emerge, and larger hybrids – crossovers, and off-road vehicles class. It is assumed that the representation of the hybrids on the market will grow at 28% per annum and will reach 500 thousand units in 2015. Specialists believe that with the passage of time in hybrids are now used mostly to replace nickel-metallogidridnyh batteries will be lithium-ion, has several advantages, in particular – less weight and better energy efficiency. In 2015, the proportion of hybrids, equipped with litiyno-ion batteries, according to analysts, will be two-thirds of the total number of hybrid cars.
During the Detroit auto show (North American international auto show) the representatives of Toyota Motor reported that by 2010 the company has developed a hybrid car on the new technology Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The hybrid propulsion system of the vehicle will be charged on your home network, power supply, it will be able to travel only if necessary for the energy storage batteries, without connection to an internal combustion engine.
