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LC Super Hybrid to be unveiled at Geneva
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The LC Super Hybrid system aims to make hybrid petrol vehicles more efficient and cleaner than diesel cars
The LC Super Hybrid has been conceived by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) to show that significant CO2 reduction can be achieved through electric hybridisation at low voltages (12-48 volts) using the latest lead-carbon batteries. The production-ready technology offers the potential of a mass market, petrol-powered, large family car with superb drivability, impressive performance and excellent 5.6 litres/100km (51mpg) fuel economy achieved at substantially lower cost than an equivalent diesel model. The low voltage technology enables aggressive yet near-term down-sizing and down-speeding of existing engine families.
And there is no dearth of performance. In 6th gear, which is taller even than the gearing in the baseline vehicle, the 80 to 120 km/h top gear acceleration is reduced by 3.5 seconds from 16.0 to 12.5 seconds. Similarly, the 0-100 km/h time is reduced by 2.5 seconds from 11.1 to 8.7 seconds compared with the 1.4-litre TSI and achieves virtually the same acceleration (8.5 seconds) as the 1.8-litre TSI model.
The LC Super Hybrid technology, which has taken years of research to develop, has achieved its technical breakthrough in the cost effective reduction of CO2 emissions and fuel consumption without destroying the fun-to-drive factor and high energy density fuel tank range advantage of gasoline engines. The demonstrator embraces low voltage switched reluctance (SR) motor-generators, which are not currently employed by the automotive industry in mass production. The motors are of simple robust construction using steel, aluminium and copper and avoid the use of increasingly expensive rare earth materials required for permanent magnet motors. The SR technology is licensed from Nidec Corporation of Japan, one of the world’s leading suppliers of electric motors.
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