LAST AUTO NEWS – FIAT’S HYBRID 500 CHARGES UP!
Last Auto account – Fiat’s amalgam 500 accuse up! Electric addition set to accord city-limits car 100mpg with motor added to new TwinAir model.
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Small car, even abate bills! Fiat is about to alpha developing a new amalgam adaptation of its 500, able of 100mpg-plus.
We’ve apprenticed the 900cc two-cylinder TwinAir alternative of the city-limits model, but engineers plan to accord it an electric boost, acid CO2 emissions to alone 70g/km.
The TwinAir will be akin to Fiat’s avant-garde twin-clutch transmission, and the plan is to absorb a baby 5kW (8bhp) electric motor into the gearbox casing. This will drive one of the gearshafts.
The motor assists the engine, decidedly if affairs abroad from a continuing alpha – to get the abounding account of the electric unit, which has all of its torque accessible from aught revs.
As the TwinAir engine takes up 23 per cent beneath amplitude than a four-cylinder powerplant, the array backpack can be army beneath the bonnet. The corpuscle may aswell ability some of the car’s accessory apparatus if the stop-start arrangement shuts off the engine.
A ambition of 70g/km CO2 would concealment the 95g/km amount for the 84bhp adaptation of the 500 TwinAir – due in the UK in September – by some margin. The dual-clutch manual is accepted to be a accepted advantage if Fiat allotment to the US in 2012. The amalgam will aswell be offered there.
Joining the 84bhp TwinAir assemblage will be a 64bhp non-turbo version, as able-bodied as a higher-performance 104bhp version. The engines will be acclimated by Fiat and stablemate Lancia to ability their city-limits cars and superminis in the advancing years.
There’s an alfresco adventitious the drivetrain could aswell be offered to Ford, as its Ka uses the aforementioned belvedere as the 500.
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