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September 1st, 2009

SmartPlanet: New BMW turbodiesel hybrid goes 0-60 mph in 4.8 secs; 75 mpg

Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 9:42 am

Categories: Cars and Automobiles, Toybox Announcements

Tags: BMW AG, Andrew Nusca

A plug-in turbodiesel hybrid car that can go 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 5 seconds, top out at 155 m.p.h. and get 75 m.p.g. in the process.

That’s what BMW has created, all packed into the skin of a 2+2 gullwing AWD supercar.

Instead of a gas-hogging V8, the car has 98 lithium cells hooked into two electric motors paired with a three-cylinder turbodiesel engine.

Want to know how BMW did it? Read it on SmartPlanet’s Smart Takes blog.

Andrew NuscaAndrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.


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It's torque
Electric motors get 100% torque at 0 rpm - whereas internal combustion engines don't reach max torque until a couple thousand rpms. When you want to start moving that train from a dead stop, you HAVE ... (Read the rest)
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cool  voska1 | 09/01/09
And it costs only ..... ?  BillDem | 09/01/09
It's a bargain at $1 million USD! (j/k) nt  T1Oracle | 09/01/09
It's a concept car  Michael Kelly | 09/01/09
It's about TIME someone did a diesel hybrid  BitTwiddler | 09/01/09
It's torque  Roger Ramjet | 09/02/09
Won't cars with super high gas mileage...  bricar2 | 09/01/09

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