{"id":146620,"date":"2010-01-06T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/06\/report-general-motors-working-on-diesel-hybrids\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T23:01:00","slug":"report-general-motors-working-on-diesel-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/146620","title":{"rendered":"Report: General Motors working on diesel hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Hybrid<\/a>, GM<\/a>, Opel<\/a>, Vauxhall<\/a>, Diesel<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you want to maximize you fuel efficiency in the city, your best bet is probably a hybrid. On the flip side of the coin, if you do most of your driving on the open road, diesel engines tend to be much more economical than their gasoline-powered siblings. What if you could combine the two, though, and end up with the best of both worlds?<\/p>\n

While it would hardly be the first automaker to embark down that path, Autocar<\/em> is reporting that General Motors<\/a> is working on a diesel hybrid powertrain that could see production in various Opel<\/a> and Vauxhall<\/a> models (such as the Astra<\/a> and Insignia<\/a>) sometime after 2012. Sounds good, right? Of course, there are problems to work out.<\/p>\n

One thing that’s holding all major automakers back from diesel hybrids are both development and production costs, which can be substantial since both diesels and hybrids already carry a premium over gasoline-burning engines. Maurizio Cisternino, GM of Europe’s advanced technology chief engineer, has reportedly told the UK publication that the automaker is aiming for a premium of 1,000 euros (£880 or about $1,400 U.S. at current exchange rates) for the diesel hybrid over traditional hybrids, something that would be quite an achievement.<\/p>\n

If the hybrid powertrain does come to fruition, expect it to be paired with GM’s upcoming 1.6-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder, a special version of which is said to be prepared with computer controls that are compatible with The General’s hybrid systems. It’s also possible that a diesel engine will at some point be coupled to the automaker’s Voltec powertrain<\/a> as seen in the Chevrolet Volt<\/a> and Opel Ampera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Source: Autocar<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Report: General Motors working on diesel hybrids<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Hybrid, GM, Opel, Vauxhall, Diesel If you want to maximize you fuel efficiency in the city, your best bet is probably a hybrid. On the flip side of the coin, if you do most of your driving on the open road, diesel engines tend to be much more economical than their gasoline-powered siblings. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}