Development of Hybrid Electric Car
A Japanese automobile company announced in December 1997 that it would put a hybrid electric car into small-batch commercial production. The car weighs 1515kg, is equipped with an overhead camshaft four-cylinder, 1500cc displacement gasoline engine, and has a maximum power of 42.6kW/4600r/min. Permanent magnet brushless generator, drive motor is also permanent magnet brushless rated power 30kW, using hydrogen nickel battery to achieve series and parallel control mode, fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is 4.5L, half of the original gasoline car, CO2 emissions are also Correspondingly, the CO, HC, and NOX are only 10% of the allowable value of the current regulations, and the price is 2.16 million yen (about 15,000 US dollars) each. An American automobile company exhibited the second-generation hybrid electric car in Detroit in February 1998. The car is equipped with a 1500cc displacement direct injection diesel engine with a generator, a lead-acid battery, an AC induction motor drive, an aluminum frame, and a composite body. , Its own weight is 1022kg, and its fuel consumption per hundred kilometers drops to 3.4L. In 2000, some companies have developed prototype cars with fuel consumption of 3 liters or close to 3 liters for 100 kilometers, but the price is still relatively expensive.