Volvo Car Corp. range extenders

摘要

According to Volvo Car Corp. Pow-ertrain Engineering Vice President Derek Crabb, the company is producing test cars with Range Extenders - electric cars that are fitted with a combustion engine to increase their effective range. "The projects, supported by the Swedish Energy Agency and the EU, encompass three potential technology combinations. Tests of the various concepts will get under way in the first quarter of 2012." Crabb added, "Battery cost and size mean that all-electric cars still have a relatively limited operating range. With the Range Extender, the electric car has its effective range increased by a thousand kilometres - yet with CO, emissions below or way below 50 g/km."