Why hybrid sports cars both brutal as disastrous
Posted on 06-08-2015 at 14:37 by sir_smokalot – 49 Comments”
More and more sporting divisions of manufacturers over the next few years their models electrify. Anyone who has worked in a thick Tesla has been difficult, you can raise objections to electrical power, but the development also has negative aspects.
The past few weeks, we were bombarded with messages of performancedivisies that within a short time, the batteries go: AMG plant no later than 2020, its first hybrid models, and in the light of the current elektrofanatisme in Munich, we expect certainly the one and the other of BMW, with the i8 already a brave step to put. From Audi, we have in addition to some of the 100% electric e-tron-explorations haven’t heard much, but the brand can be hard to be left behind.
Renault Sport has this week expressed the wish, in the future, batteries in his cars to push, and that Volvo’s Polestar probably hybridiseert will be already nobody to surprise. Blocks with more than 4 cylinders are no longer in the rack in Sweden, so if you have something sportiefs on the up want come red you not only with a big boost.
The motivation for elektrificering is clear: where an internal combustion engine, first on the touring should come with an electric motor to directly power/torque, between 0-1000 rpm, it delivers a good contribution to the (in the case of the large zakenlimo’s) heavy cars of their place. In addition, mean batteries in the soil also has a low center of gravity.
The downside: extra weight, because the electric motor but the batteries add extra weight. Furthermore, you make cars more complex with more parts (and potential electrical interference) to add. As the storage density of the batteries increases, will lose the gewichtsbezwaar, you can with less batteries for the same capacity. The expected point of change in weight vs value seems to be in the coming years are to be achieved, which is the plostelinge great interest explains. In addition, gone these cars are already in the more expensive segment, so the additional cost of less insurmountable.
Bye Bye V8?
Than one aspect of hybridisering which is to be feared: the farewell of the V8. All large sedans, and drives the villains momntel in their topmotorisering against the 600 hp (or just about), and the question is how much more power would be desirable. The ceiling seems to be reached, and as the elektropower prevails, the internal combustion engine as a tool on the second plan. Then 8 pips really don’t need more. And as we move into a future where the best internal combustion engine ever slowly phased out, and in a few stubborn American and which hypercar is..
Experience is still with sound associated with it, and a V8-hum is to fake it, but as a fugazi-speakergeluid touches don’t have our sensitive nerve. But perhaps this is a sign of the time, and we are about 10 years or so of this idea reconsidered. Then we drive with a smile on the face in our somewhat tame sounding, but oh-so-nimble M5/E63-with three-cylinder to home, then very hard to drive on the fresh robotvrouw. Because that is the future, but this week still holds.
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