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Monday, May 16, 2011

Toyota Prius.



In fact, to gibridomobil Prius gave offspring, the firm took Toyota 13 years, for which it was issued over two million such vehicles. Now be added to the traditional minivan hatchback Prius v (from the word versatility, «multifaceted") and urban avtomobilchik Prius c (city), as shown in passing in the Detroit motor show. 


Prius v

First - last summer - in sale minivan. Technically - it is "simply» Prius with a more spacious interior.Compared with the hatchback odnoob'emnik became a 170 mm long (4,615 mm), 50 mm wider (1775 mm) and 84 mm higher (1575 mm). He even longer than the Ford C-MAX Grand ! 


Prius v 

Prius v 
The drag coefficient Cx of versions of "form" has risen from 0.25 to 0.29 and the average fuel consumption - from 5,1 to 5,9 l/100 km. But the amount of luggage - the object of criticism of the current Prius - increased by more than half: to 971 liters! Plus - the opportunities of transformation, thanks to sliding rear sofa and it tilted back portion. 


Prius v 
Saloon Prius v will be the first Toyota, a system equipped Entune, in charge of navigation, online information and entertainment (analog dzhiemovskoy OnStar and BlueLink company Hyundai). 


Prius c

City "hybrid» Prius c, presented in Detroit in the guise of a concept car of the European toyotovskogo studio ED2, will be smaller and cheaper than conventional Prius, and will go on sale in early 2012. It is assumed that the serial machine will use components and assemblies "junior" model Yaris / Vitz , will be the most effective of nepodzaryazhaemyh hybrids will compete with benzoelektricheskim Coupe Honda CR-Z . 


Prius c 

Prius c 
A third member priusinogo family - is the twin brother of the current hatchback, but rechargeable from home network: Prius Plug-in. Unlike the rest of his Prius battery is nickel metal hydride, and lighter lithium-ion of the same co-production firms Toyota and Panasonic. At 110 volts is fully charged in about three hours, and 220 V - in just 90 minutes. 


Prius Plug-in

At gunpoint, "rosette" option, of course - Chevrolet Volt. And the radius of a purely electric Chevrolet longer: 65 km to 20 km for Prius. But toyotovtsy promise to take the price. Until now, version Plug-in lease, but early next year will go to the free market and is expected to cost about $ 30,000 - to $ 10,000 cheaper than Volta. 

In the first year of sales Toyota expects to sell about 20,000 rechargeable Prius - against 140,928 "just" a Prius, sold in the U.S. market last year. And when all the family will be hybrid in the collection, its total annual sales in the U.S., according to Bob Carter, vice president of Toyota's U.S. division, should be around 330,000 cars. 

In Russia last year it sold 367 gibridomobiley Prius (plus 30 in the year before). That surpassed the expectations of themselves toyotovtsev, who assumed that the bill will go to ten, but to share plans for expanding the hybrid families in our country, they do not hurry. 

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