Toyota comes with an interesting new hybrid system that has dubbed the e-Smart Hybrid. Cars with this e-Smart Hybrid are always electrically powered, but are not EVs.
Toyota is introducing a new hybrid system called the e-Smart Hybrid. Models of the brand with this e-Smart Hybrid powertrain are always electrically powered, but cannot be characterized as an electric car. On board models with the e-Smart Hybrid powertrain, it is simply an internal combustion engine, but in no case does it directly drive the wheels.
The combustion engine serves as a generator for a relatively small battery pack. That battery pack in turn supplies power directly to the remarkably powerful electric motor that drives the front wheels for a car with a hybrid powertrain. The electric motor, tied to a 4.3 Ah lithium-ion battery, produces 106 hp and 170 Nm. The combustion engine, which serves purely to generate energy, is an 82 hp and 105 Nm strong 1.2. The advantage of this powertrain, according to Toyota, is the direct and EV-typical acceleration and low consumption because the petrol engine always runs more than usual at an optimal speed.
Toyota is introducing its e-Smart Hybrid powertrain in the Raize, a compact crossover delivered in its home country Japan that has a technically identical brother in the form of the Daihatsu Rocky. The Daihatsu Rocky also gets the new hybrid powertrain. Toyota gives an average consumption of 3.6 l/100 km. For comparison: the Toyota Raize with 87 hp 1.2 notes an average consumption of 4.8 l/100 km behind its name. That 1.2 is new for the front-wheel drive Raize and Rocky.
Nissan
The design of this powertrain is not new. Nissan has been supplying a similar powertrain under the name e-Power in Japan for years. The new Qashqai will eventually also be available in the Netherlands with an e-Power drivetrain.
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