Volkswagon, Hybrid car |
In a global recognition of the need to save on petroleum oils and gasoline and to prevent further destruction to the Earth's atmosphere and ozone layer, Volkswagon has partnered up with Sanyo in order to develop a Hybrid car that cuts down on the automobiles usage of gasoline and to use a battery system to power the car in order to protect the natural enviroment.
The Volkswagon companies leader, Mr. Martin Winterkorn, has announced that Volkswagon is in the process of planning a new line of Volkswagon cars that will cater to the environment and that these cares will actually be Volkswagon's line of hybrid vehicles. Such Volkswagon models that the Volkswagon company is thinking of converting into hybrid models are Volkswagon Polo and the super successful Volkswagon Golf. They are two highly popular Volkswagon models which makes sense to convert into Volkswagon hybrid cars.
Since the majority of people are purchasing these two models, the Golf and the Polo, it means that many people more will be saving the environment and promoting hybrid cars. In the North German Volkswagon Braunschweig R and D facilities, the hybrid version of the popular Porsche and Volkswagon project car, the Touareg is in construction and the Touareg Hybrid will be available starting in 2010.
Volkswagon has officially ceased to create more cars that are harmful to the Earth's environment. Therefore all models that are being designed have plans to be hybrid cars with no use of petroleum or at least minimal amounts of usage. This was announced by Ulrich Hackenberg in the German magazine Automobilwoche. Ulrich Hackenberg is the head of development for the Volkswagon company. He also commented that the cars modeled after the Up! model at the Frankfurt Motorshow, would be available with partial of full hybrid options for the Volkswagon and environmentally conscious consumers.
During research at the Volkswagon facilities, research has shown that the option of a hydrogen fuel cell car would not be able to operate. This was stated by Dr. Jurgen Leohold. Dr. Jurgen Leohold is the Chief of Research for the Dr. Jurgen Leohold company. In the future there may be improvement made upon the hydrogen fuel cel car but to date it does not function. Plug in hybrids have been yet to be discussed but could become a real possibility. To date the most popular are the so called rear engine Up!s that many car companies including Volkswagon are trying to incorporate into the new modern automobile designs and models.
The battery system that Sanyo and Volkswagon are involved with is Volkswagon's solution to full Hybrid version Volkswagon cars. This is still in the planning designs but seems to be a valid idea and option for those people looking for an answer to the petroleum problem and the never ending continued increase of gasoline prices. |
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