Peugeot unveils hydraulic, air-hybrid 80 mpg car

[555]

Looks interesting and wonder how well this system works in -0F temps?

Peugeot unveils hydraulic, air-hybrid 80 mpg car

Auto manufacturer Peugeot Citroen has teamed up with Bosch to create a hybrid car that uses hydraulics to capture and transfer energy. For city driving it is estimated that the car will be able to get up to 80% of the energy for locomotion from regenerative braking. It will also get over 80 miles per gallon (2.9 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers) while emitting 69 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.

The Peugeot, due out in 2016, will be the first major implementation of hybrid fluid power in a car. UPS trucks, which typically go through a lot of stop-start cycles, have used similar systems to reclaim energy from braking to great success. Until now, for smaller vehicles including electric hybrids, it has made more sense to use electric regenerative braking. The technology is being called Hybrid Air, although the real role for air appears just to be that of a compressible fluid to back the hydraulic power conversion........

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146450-peugeot-unveils-hydraulic-air-hybrid-80-mpg-car

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[CARRERA50]

I wouldn't expect too much from French engineering. Having hands-on experience with Peugeot in several dealerships
in the last 35+ years, I can unreservedly say they are the most poorly designed and built cars I have ever worked with
regardless of national origin. The French follow no one and no one follows the French. With good reason.

 

[Hammer67]

I wouldn't expect too much from French engineering. Having hands-on experience with Peugeot in several dealerships
in the last 35+ years, I can unreservedly say they are the most poorly designed and built cars I have ever worked with
regardless of national origin. The French follow no one and no one follows the French. With good reason.

That's saying something, given that their primary competition for building shitty cars are the Italians and the Brits.

 

[whateatsrabbits]

Truck manufactures have been designing hydraulic hybrids for some time now. Its just scary to think about how much pressure is being stored. Older gm vehicles had a abs hydraulic accumulator that was nicknamed the cannonball.

 

[CARRERA50]

That's saying something, given that their primary competition for building shitty cars are the Italians and the Brits.

Agreed, although some of the stuff made in those countries at least has some style. The engineers that designed Peugeot got their styling cues from a caboose.

 

[philwar]

I wouldn't expect too much from French engineering. Having hands-on experience with Peugeot in several dealerships
in the last 35+ years, I can unreservedly say they are the most poorly designed and built cars I have ever worked with
regardless of national origin. The French follow no one and no one follows the French. With good reason.

French build quality is still way below that of the Germans. Having said that, their ingenuity and creativity are a different matter. I like to diss the French as much as the next guy, but (living in Europe) there is no denying that their insistence on doing things their own way often pays off. There are plenty of examples of the French coming up with cutting edge designs in all kinds of fields.

Having owned 2 peugeots and 1 Renault, I vowed never to buy or lease another French car. Their quality control sucks and they just don't seem to care about quality like the Germans do. But they are definitely capable of great feats of engineering and creativity.

 

[DougB2]

Not that I'll ever own one, but the French build some excellent fighter planes.

As far as hybrids, most get their great mileage in city driving, not as good on highways. A Prius has a really efficient little gas engine, but all the electric motors and batteries are like carrying a dead body in the trunk when driving on the highway. For long range driving, I'll take my wife's 2012 Passat TDI with 6-speed manual. EPA says 43 mpg highway, I got 53. Or, in a different way, 13.4 miles per dollar.

 

[DougB2]

Not that I'll ever own one, but the French build some excellent fighter planes.

As far as hybrids, most get their great mileage in city driving, not as good on highways. A Prius has a really efficient little gas engine, but all the electric motors and batteries are like carrying a dead body in the trunk when driving on the highway. For long range driving, I'll take my wife's 2012 Passat TDI with 6-speed manual. EPA says 43 mpg highway, I got 53. Or, in a different way, 13.4 miles per dollar.

 

[macdo]

I wouldn't expect too much from French engineering. Having hands-on experience with Peugeot in several dealerships
in the last 35+ years, I can unreservedly say they are the most poorly designed and built cars I have ever worked with
regardless of national origin. The French follow no one and no one follows the French. With good reason.

Last good one was the 504.