Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid

BOGOR - Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid may be spelled out in response to criticism of the SUV haters. SUV SUV Haters blamed as environmentally destructive as wasteful of fuel and emit far more CO2 than the supermini or even hybrid cars.

Although bodied big and big-engine, the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid promises fuel efficiency is not lost with the cars smaller. With a V8 gasoline engine, 6,000 cc, powerful 332 hp and 498 Nm bertorsi, anyway, Tahoe Hybrid 2WD 50% more efficient than the cars of non-hybrid with a 5300 cc engine. In the city, the Tahoe Hybrid 2WD spent 1 liter of petrol for a distance of 8.3 km.

Tahoe Hybrid superiority lies in several elements, such as 2-mode hybrid and AFM (Active Fuel Management). The first mode is typically used Tahoe Hybrid when sliding at low speeds and light burden, which uses 3 ways; only the electric motor (48 km / h), only the combustion engine, or a combination of both. The second mode is used when the car slid down swiftly on the freeway, pull caravans / objects, climbing a hill. The second mode utilizing combustion engine plus electric motor.

Tahoe Hybrid has a clever feature AFM, where the majority number of cylinders to turn off the car when the engine power is not needed in full. AFM allows the engine to work with 4-cylinder only (V4).

General Motors also buried Stop Auto technology on cars assembled in Arlington this. When the car at a speed of 0 km / h, the engine automatically burn to death. Two key to saving gasoline Tahoe Hybrid is the application of Regenerative Braking and EVT (Electrically Variable Transmission).

Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid was taken to Indonesia and exhibited in the Indonesia International Motor Show 2010. "This car was deliberately tailored to the theme of our exhibition display Eco-Motoring Technology. We want to preach to the public that Chevrolet has a hybrid environment-friendly products, "said Harry Yanto, Business Planning, Product & Order Manager GM AutoWorld Indonesia, the sole agent of Chevrolet, while giving workshops to journalists in Rancamaya, Bogor, yesterday (3 / 8).

GM hybrid history began in 2004. When that GM agreed with DaimlerChrysler to develop hybrid systems. A year later joined in collaboration with BMW set up a Global Hybrid Corporation, headquartered in Troy, Michigan. Unfortunately, they divorced. BMW and DaimlerChrysler eventually proposes marriage to Continental AG in order to develop the Mild Hybrid. While GM insists developing a system that he developed himself.