SEAT León Twin drive
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The SEAT León Twin drive concept car is an electrically driven vehicle prototype presented at the SEAT
Martorell facilities on May 2009 in front of Spanish officials as well as members of Volkswagen
’s Executive committee, based on a second generation SEAT León
that features modified gearbox, power braking, heating and cooling systems. Ever since, the León Twin drive concept car has made its presence in various motor shows and exhibitions demonstrating the evolution of the Twin drive hybrid technology development project in SEAT's Technical Centre in Martorell.
The SEAT León Twin drive project represents a plan - with a time-scale for mass production stretching to 2014 - to carry out research over ‘plug-in’ hybrid propulsion, so as to launch SEAT models with very low consumption and environmentally friendly
emission levels.
In materialisation of this project comes the SEAT León Twin drive Ecomotive, as a plug-in hybrid vehicle powered through the combination of both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The vehicle's electric motor has an output of 35 KW and a self-imposed top speed of 100 km/h, and resumes power from Li-ion batteries placed at the rear of the vehicle, giving it a range of about 50 km for short urban circuits, while for longer trips gets into use the environmentally friendly tuned combustion engine. Special attention is also being paid to the quick battery recharging process from the mains through regular power sockets, which, in the case of the León Twin drive concept car is 50 km.
The first ten real road test cars are scheduled to make their debut in the streets of selected Spanish
cities - Madrid
, Barcelona
and Seville
- in early 2011.
SEAT
SEAT, S.A. is a Spanish automobile manufacturer founded on May 9, 1950 by the Instituto Nacional de Industria , a state-owned industrial holding company....
Martorell facilities on May 2009 in front of Spanish officials as well as members of Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
’s Executive committee, based on a second generation SEAT León
SEAT León
The SEAT León is a small family car built by the Spanish car manufacturer, and Volkswagen Group subsidiary SEAT, S.A. since October 1998.The two León generations are, or have been built upon two differing variants of the Volkswagen Group A platform, and they also share many other components with...
that features modified gearbox, power braking, heating and cooling systems. Ever since, the León Twin drive concept car has made its presence in various motor shows and exhibitions demonstrating the evolution of the Twin drive hybrid technology development project in SEAT's Technical Centre in Martorell.
The SEAT León Twin drive project represents a plan - with a time-scale for mass production stretching to 2014 - to carry out research over ‘plug-in’ hybrid propulsion, so as to launch SEAT models with very low consumption and environmentally friendly
Environmentally friendly
Environmentally friendly are terms used to refer to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies claimed to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment....
emission levels.
In materialisation of this project comes the SEAT León Twin drive Ecomotive, as a plug-in hybrid vehicle powered through the combination of both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The vehicle's electric motor has an output of 35 KW and a self-imposed top speed of 100 km/h, and resumes power from Li-ion batteries placed at the rear of the vehicle, giving it a range of about 50 km for short urban circuits, while for longer trips gets into use the environmentally friendly tuned combustion engine. Special attention is also being paid to the quick battery recharging process from the mains through regular power sockets, which, in the case of the León Twin drive concept car is 50 km.
The first ten real road test cars are scheduled to make their debut in the streets of selected Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
cities - Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
and Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
- in early 2011.
External links
- http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/23/seat-unveils-new-twin-drive-leon-prototype/
- http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/01/13/seat-introduces-leon-twin-drive-ecomotive-hybrid-concept/
- http://www.motorauthority.com/seat-trials-leon-twin-drive-plug-in-hybrid.html
- http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/01/seat-leon-drive-petrol-electric-hybrid.html
- http://www.topspeed.com/cars/seat/2009-seat-leon-twin-drive-ecomotive-project-ar69181.html