Ferdinant Piech is the man of the big differences (often successful): after having managed to produce the most powerful automobile, the fastest and the most powerful of all the world production, it remains now the objective to arrive at producing the most fuel efficient automobile in the world. It's been more than ten years since these works return regularly to the front of the stage, here is the latest evolution of the concept.
The initial goal was to produce an automobile equipped with a combustion engine and able to consume less than a liter of fuel at 100 kilometers. Achieved success with the XL1 concept that only needs 0,9 liters of diesel to travel 100 kilometers, thanks to an 2,0 TDI literally coupled to an electric motor - powered by lithium-ion batteries - and a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission .
The XL1 is a hybrid plug-in type and its body is always refined to the maximum to allow this level of extremely low consumption. The car will be presented at the Qatar show this week and is announced closer than ever to a final model ready for commercialization.
Source: http://www.caradisiac.com/Volkswagen-XL ... -65308.htm
http://www.caradisiac.com/Volkswagen-XL ... -65139.htm
In 2009 there was the project L1:
(...) The latter called L1 (for 1 liter 100 km) cheats a little with the reality of the figures that indicate a consumption of 1.49 liter 100km 39 gr / km of CO2.
But, it must also be noted that this name is chosen to recall another concept L1 unveiled in 2002 who had never found the way to the series, the concerns are not the same then.
Here, VW has honed the original 'pebble' look and swapped the 9ch single cylinder for a more modern group. We have here a 36 ch diesel twin engine coupled with an electric motor and a double clutch gearbox. The L1 measures 3.80m long and weighs 500 kg.
All this does not indicate that this new opus will see the light of day because besides its questionable look, the L1 is a 2 tandem seats with a very worked aerodynamics (removable doors, no retro but cameras, reduced width) and the trunk anecdotal of 50 dm3! However, there is talk of a possible commercialization by 2013.
via autobild
Source: http://www.caradisiac.com/Francfort-200 ... -35092.htm
Unless it remains a beautiful proto, salon concept car that will end up "in a drawer", just to say: look, we know how to do ... like the renault vesta and the eco2000 25 years ago already:
https://www.econologie.com/renault-vesta ... -3752.html
https://www.econologie.com/forums/eco2000-et ... vt128.html
Then there is also Loremo ... who is slow to leave: https://www.econologie.com/forums/loremo-la- ... t1624.html
ps: so pb2488? "We" still don't want the car at 1L / 100km?