The Audi Q5 hybrid to crow as the first hybrid model of the Audi company with impressive technology. Strongly he is to take further and faster all-wheel driven and 245 PS purely electric drive as all known hybrids.
Pioneers are not easy. Their first hybrid models, called Audi duo, the Ingolstadt VW subsidiary built already in the 1980s - far too early to to arouse serious interest of the audience.
Now, the time is right, after the savings technology, combines the combustion engine and electric motor, in the initially skeptical German automotive industry increasingly gaining ground.
Because there is the slogan "Vorsprung durch Technik", everything must be better than already known hybrid solutions. And because Audi proposes equal to two posts. The Audi Q5 hybrid is to electrically up to 100 km/h can go fast or - behutsamem use of Fahrpedals and maximum 60 km/h - 3 km far come before tuition through the piston machine is necessary. No one else can do that so far hybrid.
Why had to just the Audi it be with Quattro all-wheel drive hybrid Q5, which forms the basis for the concept of eco? Because is a model in all markets of the Audi Q5 enjoys high acceptance - differently as a station wagon or sedan limousines. As one of the most important destinations for the Audi Q5 hybrid are the United States for the Audi hybrid accounted for up to 20 percent (previously four) predicts by 2020.
The rich equipment is due the US market, which the buyer of the Audi hybrid delivered Q5. It ensures that the Audi costs Q5 hybrid around 10,000 euros more than a conventional Q5 model with the identical two-liter TFSI four. There are a lot of technology in the form of a 40 kW strong electric motor which is there in the outwardly unchanged the ZF eight-speed automatic transmission, where else is the torque converter of the Audi Q5.
The task of the converter accepts a multi-plate clutch in oil bath. It controls the so-called power electronics, a box with water cooled, specially the Audi Q5 hybrid according to your needs in electric only with internal combustion engine or drive with a connection of both drives can be. In addition, there is a boost function, which implemented the full performance of 245 HP. The gas wegnehmen E machine works as a builder and provides energy to the battery of the Audi Q5 hybrid.
The same load volume despite battery
It uses - a first for a full hybrids - the lithium-ion technology and sits under the load floor in the trunk of the Audi hybrid Q5. With 26 liters of battery pack turns out relatively compact so you while missing the additional compartment beneath the boot, but otherwise use the same capacity can like with every other Audi Q5 (460 liters with upright rear seat, 1.480 liter folded).
In the cockpit of the Audi hybrid a big round instrument is Q5, which replaces the tachometer and gives information about the different operating conditions. You need not to know everything, but it is educative. So needed Q5 already extreme caution in the Audi hybrid, to keep the pointer in the green field of the highest efficiency. If you use, as it is used, is heard almost always also the discreet roar of the four-cylinder engine.
245 PS need time to gather
Q5 hybrid fall torque and power of the Audi in that Division is getting used to "more than enough", but the performance characteristics. Pushing in the transition from the premises of minimal load to full load, such as when a strollers should be overhauled, the driver of the Audi Q5 hybrid the impression on, as the drive unit must remember only all available resources. Electric an motor? Roger. Turbo? Roger. The perceived amount of time up to the full thrust seems long, but then storms the Audi Q5 hybrid emphatically offered ahead. The automatic switches quickly, but not always very smooth what may be due to the missing converter.
The most important topic in the Audi Q5 hybrid: the consumption. The result of the cycle sounds promising, providing the onboard computer is included in but significantly higher, namely at the first trial runs 9.5 litres. Hybrid driver, which is already clear, may open no profitability calculation. But a good image can be worth its money.
