Fiat’s hybrid 500 charges up! ==> 100mpg

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Electric boost set to give city car 100mpg with motor added to new TwinAir model.

By Tom Philips
13th July 2010

Small car, even smaller bills! Fiat is about to start developing a new hybrid version of its 500, capable of 100mpg-plus.

We've driven the 900cc two-cylinder TwinAir variant of the city model, but engineers plan to give it an electric boost, cutting CO2 emissions to only 70g/km.

The TwinAir will be mated to Fiat’s advanced twin-clutch transmission, and the plan is to incorporate a small 5kW (8bhp) electric motor into the gearbox casing. This will drive one of the gearshafts.

The (electric) motor assists the engine, particularly when pulling away from a standing start – to get the full benefit of the electric unit, which has all of its torque available from zero revs.

As the TwinAir engine takes up 23 per cent less space than a four-cylinder powerplant, the battery pack can be mounted under the bonnet. The cell may also power some of the car’s ancillary components when the stop-start system shuts off the engine.
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Really exciting, indeed

[staspeterson]

Originally Posted by web_captain

fm ==> www.autoexpress.co.uk

Electric boost set to give city car 100mpg with motor added to new TwinAir model.

By Tom Philips
13th July 2010

Small car, even smaller bills! Fiat is about to start developing a new hybrid version of its 500, capable of 100mpg-plus.

We've driven the 900cc two-cylinder TwinAir variant of the city model, but engineers plan to give it an electric boost, cutting CO2 emissions to only 70g/km.

The TwinAir will be mated to Fiat’s advanced twin-clutch transmission, and the plan is to incorporate a small 5kW (8bhp) electric motor into the gearbox casing. This will drive one of the gearshafts.

The (electric) motor assists the engine, particularly when pulling away from a standing start – to get the full benefit of the electric unit, which has all of its torque available from zero revs.

As the TwinAir engine takes up 23 per cent less space than a four-cylinder powerplant, the battery pack can be mounted under the bonnet. The cell may also power some of the car’s ancillary components when the stop-start system shuts off the engine.
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Really exciting, indeed

It is about time that the dirty Europeans stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere. I look forward to the day when they don't add any, just like we North Americans don't.

Then maybe we won't get hectored by the greens to remove even more of the CO2 that we don't add to the atmosphere, to help out those untidy people.

You did know that was the Reality, didn't you?

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Originally Posted by staspeterson

It is about time that the dirty Europeans stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere. I look forward to the day when they don't add any, just like we North Americans don't.

Then maybe we won't get hectored by the greens to remove even more of the CO2 that we don't add to the atmosphere, to help out those untidy people.

You did know that was the Reality, didn't you?

In some way u're right, stas.

But I like to remember that the air pollution is not only due to the automotive industry, unfortunately.