LAST AUTO NEWS – LOTUS REVEALS RANGE EXTENDER ENGINE
Last Auto account – Lotus reveals Range Extender engine Lotus announces a purpose congenital engine for use in amalgam cars
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Lotus has appear its aboriginal footfall into the amalgam bazaar but it’s not what you ability expect! The new Range Extender engine is advised accurately to plan in a alternation amalgam car by either powering the electric motor anon or by charging the cars battery.
The 1.2-litre three butt engine, which produces 47hp at 3,500rpm is declared by Lotus as a monoblock architecture with the butt arch and block chip into the engine abbreviation the bulk of locations bare and abbreviating weight to just 56kg.
This low weight and baby engine admeasurement agency lower costs, bigger emissions and a best lifespan authoritative the Range Extender an ideal best for amalgam vehicles. The aboriginal car to get the new engine will acceptable be a ancestor in affiliation with Jaguar, MIRA and Caparo as allotment of the “limo-green’ activity to advance a affluence alehouse with emissions of beneath 120g/km of CO2.
The Range Extender, which can be run on either petrol or ethanol, will be clearly apparent at next week’s Frankfurt Motor Show.
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