Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid (2013)

 

  

CARBARN | Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid (2013) | The V60 plug-in hybrid is the first Volvo to start with a fully digital driver information monitor (DIM). The driver can choose to display information about the menu setup of the car. If necessary, the high voltage generator to the battery for which there is sufficient capacity to power mode Pure. Pressing the button activates electric AWD four-wheel drive. Instead of mechanical power transmission of the conventional four-wheel drive distributes the central controller, the diesel engine the front wheels and the electrically powered rear axle. The electric motor four-wheel drive system has been developed to provide better adhesion to the starting and during driving on slippery roads, as in snow or mud.

From the electric four-wheel drive is activated only by the driver, if necessary, more economical than traditional four-wheel drive. Volvo Car Corporation is on the verge of the introduction of the Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid - a rechargeable battery-diesel hybrid car, which is the company most technically advanced model ever. The indicative price for plug-in the world's first hybrid with a diesel engine to  EUR 57.000, depending on market launches. Hybrid technology has risen to a new level."The Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid is the result of close collaboration between Volvo Cars and Swedish power company Vattenfall.

The plug-in hybrid confirmed that electricity is the fuel for future transportation," says Øystein loses, CEO of Vattenfall. From an environmental perspective, the hybrid plug-in entirely higher than the first generation of hybrid cars to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, in principle, about 15 percent over the same model without hybrid drive. In hybrid mode, the large battery in the Volvo V60 Plug-in hybrids are 65 percent less carbon emissions than a conventional V60 diesel engine with the same: 49 g / km.

It makes you choose the purest, the Hybrid and Power buttons, this car is combines the perfect choice for uncompromising customer orientation, the minimum carbon dioxide emissions will be a maximum driving pleasure, "said Stefan Jacoby. At longer distances, the diesel engine, the machine offers the same range as a conventional hybrid - but with far less emissions anidrid