Land Rover has confirmed that they will be bringing out hybrid versions of Range Rover models which will be called Range Rover_e. Apparently set for a 2013 launch, the diesel electric hybrid drivetrain will be introduced to the public in a Range Rover Sport body. Land Rover suggested that all their models have the potential of being driven by the hybrid system, and developing a petrol hybrid (mainly for US and Middle East) would be easy after mastering the harder to produce diesel system.
The chosen transmission is the ZF eight-speed automatic and the hybrid system adds about 110kg to the weight of the car. It has been reported that a 3.0-litre V6 diesel motor will partner a 25kW electric motor. the SUV will be able to run solely on electric power for 32 km. CO2 emissions will be less than 100 g/km, which is nothing short of amazing in such a big car. Currently, only eco models of superminis achieve that sort of figure.
Tests will start late this year with a small fleet of five units.
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better fuel economy but hybrid car is expensive in msia, plus it is range rover…..better save money for this one…
diesel+ electric = sounds like a locomotive to me. Actually hybrid techs exist long ago since KTM was “bornt” (mocking some guy’s creating non-existing word like bornED)
Diesel electric is a class of submarine, much like our Navy’s KD TAR.
Very quiet under 5 knots & only need to recharge batteries (using the diesel) every 2 days or so. The Sterling engine in Swedish Gotland Class uses liquid oxygen & diesel to run the generator, thus eliminating the need to snorkel for air.
Hybrid cars currently only benefited the rich, as the price is too expensive for the average person…
diesel+electric= sounds like locomotive . We should use KTM instead :P
interesting, while honda’s philosophy towards hybrid is that it must be combined with petrol engines because diesel in itself provides alot of low end torque which the car does not benefit from having an electrical motor that does the same.
It’s just a matter of harnessing the (low end) torque via gear ratios. Honda’s reasoning is much to do with (a) hybrids are mostly geared towards US market which abhors diesels & (b) Japs themselves have not much love for diesels.
Logically, it makes sense to do hybrids in diesels as new gen diesels are more economical & environmentally friendly than petrol engines.
However, diesel alone is more environmentally friendly (as a whole process) vs electric/hybrid. This is because the mining, shipping, manufacturing & disposal of batteries are by itself very toxic. Thus, taken as the whole sum, a diesel car manufacturing + running is more environmentally than a hybrid or pure electric car.
Japs are way behind in diesel tech due to their prejudice against diesel…..guess, they will fall behind soon…the euro are all moving toward diesel/hybrid…european are ahead in diesel tech nowadays, since we are still at euro2, we are not expose to their top of the line/best seller engines which happen to be diesels. Just came back from brunei where most of the bruneian are into diesels….according to them, more power wt less fuel consumption + lower CO2. = having more fun while saving the planet compared to a same cc petrol…..lots of Kia rondo,carnival, sorento…hyundai tucson/starex/santa fe..all diesels….even their innova are d4d diesel