Thread: Volkswagen will make compact car up! hybrid

Volkswagen will make compact car up! hybrid
In the series, this version will be launched not earlier than in a year and a half.

Company Volkswagen will release a hybrid modification of the compact-car up! which will receive power from super saver car XL1, whose serial version will debut next month in Geneva, reports Autocar.

In the composition of the hybrid power plant novelties will include two-cylinder 800-CC diesel engine with a capacity of 48 horsepower, 27-horsepower electric motor, the DSG transmission with two clutches and a set of lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of 5.5 kilowatt-hours, which will be installed in the rear part of the compact-car up!.

Mass base up! is 925 kilograms (130 pounds heavier than XL1), and the version of the model with a hybrid power plant will weigh about a ton. According to preliminary calculations, the average fuel consumption of new items will be about three liters per hundred kilometers, and a cruising range of electric - 50 kilometers.

At the moment the model project up! with the power plant from the XL1 is still being worked out by the engineering Department of Volkswagen. In the series, this version will be launched not earlier than in a year and a half.