AUTOMOTIVE - GREEN: Subaru's Advanced Hybrid Concept

GREEN: Subaru?s Advanced Hybrid Concept

Automaker's own hybrid technology set for 2013 production shown in exotic gullwing wagon at Tokyo Motor Show.

The 2011 Subaru Advanced Tourer Concept unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show follows up to the original 2009 Hybrid Tourer Concept, and it once again demonstrates the Japanese automaker?s hybrid technology set for production in 2013.

The Advanced Tourer Concept sports gullwing front doors and rear-hinged back doors. (Photo: Motor Authority) Subaru describes its Advanced Tourer as a mid-size wagon designed to combine sporty driving, utility and environmentally friendliness.

Power comes from a turbocharged and direct-injected horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine displacing 1.6-liters and matched with Subaru?s own Hybrid Electric Vehicle technology. Drive is channeled through a constant variable transmission and symmetrical all-wheel drive.

A single motor system is used for its simple structure and light weight, Subaru says. The system has an Electric Vehicle mode, which allows all-wheel drive motion using only the motor at start-up and on low-speed drives. When decelerating, the regenerating mechanism uses the motor as a power generator.

Source: http://automotive.speedtv.com/article/green-subarus-grand-touring-hybrid-concept/

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