Mahindra’s Bolero and Scorpio micro hybrid
Posted at March 25th, 2008 under Auto Knowledge Section, Auto News | 
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Bolero and Scoprio micro hybrid:
Mahindra and Mahindra will soon come out with a hybrid vehicle and it will cost the same as your regular bolero or scorpio. Excited, yes M&M will bring a hybrid vehicle but not the scoprio hybrid it is developing for american market but micro hybrid version of bolero and scorpio in June. micro hybrids are not true hybrids but a conventional vehicle which shuts off the engine and uses electric power while idling. By doing it,scropio micro hybrid and boler micro hybrid will be made more economical to run. Stop/Start or plug-n-play or Micro hybrid as this technology is called conserves energy by shutting off the gasoline engine when the vehicle is at rest, such as at a traffic light to reduce the amount of time spend at idling, and automatically re-starting it when the driver pushes the gas pedal to go forward.An electronic brain keeps a careful eye on everything and refuses to stop the motor if the air conditioning is still needed or if the battery is running short on charge. Thus in the micro hybrid fuel efficiency would be marginally higher than the gasoline engine.Fuel economy / mileage gains from this technology are typically in the range of 5 to 10 percent. Also with this micro hybrid diesel clatter is put off. We made a brief test drive of bolero micro hybrid and found it good. But we found difficult to move around with the bolero micro hybrid atleast initially, when the vehicle is put to rest there is no sound coming from the engine compartment just silence which confused us whether he engine is in sleep mode and it is not turned off. But i’m sure once you started learning to live with micro hybrids you’ll love it. Micro hybrids adds almost no weight and little in the way of cost. Hcnce scorpio micro hybrid or bolero micro hybrid will be priced only at a slight premium over the existing ones.
my name is kunal kadam i am planing to buy an suv but i found bolero in my budget an was researching on this car an found the details of bolero micro hybrid so is it worth it waiting for this car an when exatly this car will launch in june???
Its a nice move by Mahindra but the technology is yet to be proven.
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is Mahindra Ingenio an hybrid suv an it going to replace bolero so is the bolero hybrid will be the good option or should wait for ingenio but first would like to know is the ingenio an hybrid car or not
I have a few queries.
How powerful is the battery? So I am given to understand that this vehicle switches off in every signal and the engine is restarted when the accelerator is pressed.
Right?
But given our traffic conditions in india, say bangalore,
the engine will switch off and on every 20 secs as you will be stuck in a traffic jam through out your journey. How good is this for the car wear and tear?
Awaiting your response.
I think no need of this technology in India, it won’t work here.
i’ll prefer sumo grande dicor over this one
Don’t think this would add much value here. I don’t think anyone drives in the city without the A/C. In such cases the engine would still run.
Further with start/stop traffic, it would put a lot of strain on the battery. I guess the battery life/ starter motor etc would be strained and life reduced.
This is just a market gimmick to increase prices I think.
I think that the engine idle/off/on is far from a hybrid. Hybrid refers to the power source, and typicaly in cars refers to petrol/diesel and electric. This is not a Hybrid nor a micro hybrid. it is an intelligent engine idle system only. I agree with other comments, we need to see if the urban traffic conditions will be too much for the constant stop start the engine battery will undergo.
I think Mahindra’s have always set a trend for India motor industry.
This is a really good thing. We need more environment friendly vehicles out there, to save our planet.