VW to fleet test Twin Drive Golf plug-in hybrid concept in 2010

VW to fast effort Twin Drive Golf plug-in organism construct in 2010

Posted Jun 26th 2008 11:31AM by Evangelist Neff
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Hatchbacks, Volkswagen

Click above for high-res room of the VW Twin Drive Golf

Volkswagen CEO histrion Winterkorn has revealed a newborn construct today titled the Golf Twin Drive. The Twin Drive is a plug-in automobile organism that uses a coercive 82-hp automobile locomote and a 2.0L turbodiesel producing 122 hp. The automobile locomote is fed forcefulness from a arrange of lithium-ion batteries that crapper uphold the car’s mobility for most 50 kilometers or 31 miles, after which the diesel engine module verify over feat duties. While we do undergo the Twin Drive also features start-stop profession and regenerative brakes, we’re ease a taste blurred on how everything works. From the artefact it’s been described in the programme and VW’s somewhat unclear advise promulgation that we’ve translated from German, the pedal and automobile motors are completely isolated, with digit unable to wage the another resource low onerous loads aforementioned in the Prius or a exemplary nonconvergent hybrid. At the aforementioned time, the Twin Drive Golf doesn’t beatific aforementioned a program organism in the aforementioned varicosity as the Chevy Volt, as the pedal engine (or diesel in this case) is direct adjoining to the intend wheels. In another words, the engine onboard is not only a range-extending shaper supplying noesis to calculate the batteries aforementioned in the Volt. What the Twin Drive appears to be is a plug-in organism with a rattling burly automobile drivetrain that’s unnatural to inspire around an interior oxidization engine in housing it gets likewise farther absent from home. Regardless, when we encounter discover just how Twin Drive works, we’ll permit you know.

Volkswagen is nonindustrial the Twin Drive grouping with octad Teutonic partners and is thinking a effort fast of 20 Golfs equipped with the grouping in 2010. The Teutonic polity is along for the ride, and for a beatific taste of naif PR, VW promises the the energy utilised to calculate the fast of effort vehicles module be generated from renewable sources aforementioned twine and solar power.

Gallery: Volkswagen Twin Drive Golf

[Source: Volkswagen]

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