French group PSA Peugeot Citroen revealed a new modular platform named EMP2 (Efficient Modular Platform 2) which this year Debuts at the Citroen C4 Picasso and the Peugeot 308 following generations. In the design of the platform, which became the 70 kilos lighter used before this chassis are steel, aluminium and composite materials. On the new database you can create cars with almost any type of bodywork is a hatchback, saloon, Coupé, convertible, station wagon, minivan and SUV. Models built on this chassis, will be greener than its predecessors at 22 percent. This will be achieved through the installation of the system "start-stop" engines that meet ecological standards "Euro 6" tires with low rolling resistance and èlektrousilitelâ steering. ... Read more »
Under the program, the company PSA Peugeot Citroen, to reduce the fuel consumption of their machines up to two litres per 100 kilometers by 2020, offers your vehicle with a new hybrid installation that runs on compressed air and called the Hybrid Air. Complete with an internal combustion engine and hydraulic motor and air pump with two cylinders of compressed air. The car used a special planetary transmission. Cylinders used in this design are of different pressure, one high and one low. Compressed air in the cylinder is refilled each time by braking energy recovery, with the help of a hydraulic pump. This car can travel at a speed of 70 km/h with an internal combustion engine disconnected, with only one compressed air. Now designers are refining new hybrid in terms
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