Hyundai’s plug-in hybrid unveiled

Posted at March 26th, 2009 under Hyundai | No Comments »

Hyundai Blue-Will, a plug-in hybrid concept unveiled in advance of its presentation at the Seoul motor show in Korea in the coming week.

Further, the Hyundai Blue-Will show car exercises a non-turbocharged version of the 1.6-litre direct-injection petrol engine first observed in the Hyundai ix-onic concept at this year’s Geneva presentation. Adding, it’s coupled to a 100kW electric motor and the clout is nosh through a CVT gearbox.

Moreover, electric power is hoarded in a lithium ion polymer battery flipside which facilitates battery technology akin to that employed in the novel Korean-market Hyundai Elantra hybrid, an initial for this type of energy storage in a mass-production automobile.

Also, the Blue-Will concept exercises bio-plastics resultant from plant stuff for the engine swathe and parts of the interior, whereas its headlamp bezels are prepared from cast-off plastic. And the sunroof is also an astral pane that aids to clout the car’s subsidiary electric systems.

“The entire technology following the Blue-Will concept is doable and, even though there are veto plans for a production adaptation, it outcomes where we’re moving with our hybrid technology”, said a spokesman from Hyundai.