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n-air-gy air hybrid citroen geneva

Clever. The air hybrid powertrain that Citroen will be bringing to the Geneva Motor Show next month is nicknamed N-Air-Gy. Or, at least, that's what it says in the rendering that Citroen released today in preparation for the Swiss event. We've heard about this technology before, with the hint that it might some day go into one of PSA Citroen's B-segment compact hatchbacks. In Geneva, the powertrain will be displayed in a C3 VTi 82 hatchback.

Officially called Hybrid Air, this powertrain, co-developed with Bosch, pairs a gasoline engine with compressed air hybraulic power. In other words, Hybrid Air takes the battery out of the traditional hybrid set-up while gaining similar fuel economy benefits. In the C3 concept, that means "record-breaking" fuel economy of just 2.9 liters per 100 km (roughly 81 miles per gallon, on the lenient European test cycle). Citroen says this is 45 percent less, in urban settings, than a similar ICE vehicle because the car moves using a hydraulic compressed air system that is "recharged" using regenerative brakes. An air hybrid car should also be cheaper than a similar vehice with a standard hybrid powertrain. Citroen says an air hybrid system doesn't impact on cargo space, making it all the more appealing in smaller vehicles. We'll learn more in Geneva.

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PSA Hybrid Air

Nike single-handedly popularized the term "swoosh." If a new and unexpected project works out as planned, PSA Peugeot Citroen might do the same with "whoosh."

PSA Peugeot Citroen is working on a drivetrain that would hybridize a conventional engine with compressed air in one of the automaker's B-segment compact hatchbacks. The vehicle, which could go into production as soon as 2016, would include a hydraulic pump that allows the car to run in all-gasoline, all-air or combined (aka "hybrid air") modes. The system, which is being developed with Bosch, could offer more than 80 miles per gallon (on the more lenient European driving cycle) without the need for a big hybrid battery. PSA Peugeot Citroen is ultimately looking to develop an air hybrid that would get 118 miles per gallon.

Additionally, a PSA Peugeot Citroen spokesman tells Automotive News that General Motors may use the air hybrid system as well. Early last year, GM acquired a seven-percent stake in PSA Peugeot Citroen as part of an agreement in which the two companies plan to share vehicle platforms and components. PSA Peugeot Citroen's press release is available below.

Other air cars (not hybrids like this one) have been tried before, but the promises we heard about those didn't always turn out.

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Mitsubishi I

In what is likely the largest EV recall ever, Mitsubishi is recalling about 14,700 electric vehicles worldwide because of a braking issue, Reuters reports.

Of the recalled vehicles, about 12,300 are i-MiEVs while 2,400 are Minicab-MiEVs. About 9,000 vehicles are in Europe, and some are badged as PSA Peugeot iON and Citroen C-Zero models, says Reuters. It's not clear if the US version of the i is also affected, but there is not yet a recall notice on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website.

The recall stems from a faulty electric brake pump that's supposed to send air to the brake booster, and the repair is said to take about 30 minutes. About 27,000 Mitsubishi i-MiEVs and i models have been sold since the model debuted overseas in mid-2009, meaning that about 45 percent of those vehicles are subject to the recall.

Mitsubishi sold only 588 units of the i in the US last year, fewer than the limited-production Ford Focus Electric. More recently, Consumer Reports reviewed the Mitsubishi and critiqued it for its lack of pep and cheap-looking finishes, among other things.

UPDATE: US-i vehicles are indeed affected, as a new post to the NHTSA website notes. 1,402 i models will need their vacuum pumps replaced, and the details on what to do if you have one of these are available below.

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Citroen's Multicity service

Menage a deux?

Multicity, the vehicle-rental service launched last year by French automaker Citroen, has branched out into the peer-to-peer car-sharing industry, becoming the first of such services in Europe, Automotive News reports.

Citroen, the sister company of Peugeot, is specifically opening up its Multicity service to car owners as a de-facto way for prospective younger consumers to test-drive its models. Citroen joins General Motors (through RelayRides), Daimler's Smart division and BMW as automakers that have launched peer-to-peer car-sharing services.

Citroen debuted Multicity in early 2011. Last June, Citroen started making the battery-electric C-Zero (the sister vehicle to the Mitsubishi i) available to rent through Multicity.

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renault zoe

French Minister of Industrial Renewal Amaud Montebourg wants his nation to be considered the world's electric-vehicle leader. "France can guide the electric revolution. We want electric vehicles to be for everyone," he said during the recent welcome-home ceremony for the Citroen C-Zero driving team that finished an eight month, 15,535 mile road trip on $300 worth of electricity, the Electric Odyssey.

Montebourg's pronouncement was made on the eve of the Paris Motor Show, where French automakers are ready to show off displays of electric vehicles. Renault is showing its full lineup of Zoe, Twizy, Kangoo and Fluence EVs. Citroen is displaying its DS3 electric concept car and its C-Zero. Peugeot will show the iOn, sister to the C-Zero and Mitsubishi iMiEV. Two startup makers will also show their wares - Mia is displaying small EVS and Courb will bring its C-Zen.

Government incentives are available to move this vision forward. For example, there is a $9,100 tax credit available for the Renault Zoe, which brings the price down to the level of the Renault Clio or Peugot 208, Montebourg said. The question the French government and auto industry needs to have answered is similar to other locales, such as California and Washington, D.C.: what will it for EVs to take root?

The Ministry of Industry Renewal will be announcing increased consumer incentives to buy EVs, including free parking, free passage on urban toll roads and financial aid for installing recharging stations. The French government is following a similar path as the state of California, having pushed for the technology in the 1990s. Back then, in France, Peugeot-Citroen and Renault converted 10,000 small cars to electric power before the experiment petered out. Limited range from lead-acid batteries, high prices and lack of charging stifled the plug-in revolution. Now, with the tax credit making these cars more attractive to consumers, it looks like charging infrastructure remains the largest hurdle.

The government is pushing for infrastructure development through various methods, such as meeting with local governments to assist with the installation of public charging stations and changing regulations on underground parking garages in apartment complexes to make installations viable.

One of the hurdles for infrastructure development is deciding on what type of plug to use for fast charging. The government has committed to making its decision in the next few months, even though the plug-in industry doesn't know itself. A second problem is starting up fees for charging, when people were used to free public charging.

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Electric Odyssey finishes

Just because Rafael de Mestre took his Tesla Roadster around the globe a bit faster doesn't mean that the adventure that the Electric Odyssey duo of Antonin and Xavier have been on is any less amazing. After all, they went 15,500 miles through 17 countries in an all-electric Citroen C-Zero (a rebadged Mitsubishi i-MiEV) in just eight months. The pair left Strasbourg, France in February and made it back safe and sound yesterday, after finding a lot of friendly outlets along the way - enough for "almost 300" charges. That's an average of over 50 miles per charge in a jellybean-shaped EV that crossed the Rockies and dusty Asia.

Once they got back home, Antonin and Xavier held a livestream video chat with some of the people (called "pluggers") who helped power their global journey (you can watch it below). This is the part where the Odyssey's official mission - "to improve the image of electric cars with the general public and reassure people concerning their use" - was proved successful. Electric vehicles might be getting more and more common, but round-the-world drives will always be interesting and full of great people.

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Citroen c-zero

Despite some popular deals available for limited times and long-distance adventures, the Citroen C-Zero and Peugeot Ion were never big sellers. Now, Mitsubishi has decided that it's not worth it to build the electric vehicles for PSA any more.

Automotive News reports that overall slow sales of the two electric cars - for the first half of 2012, 852 Ions and 935 C-Zeros were sold - mean an indefinite hiatus for the European jellybeans. A Mitsubishi representative told AN that, "This is a matter of PSA adjusting its orders to market demand. ... Our production total is lower than what we had originally hoped for." The Ion and C-Zero are both rebadged versions of the i-MiEV that Mitsubishi makes in Japan.

Christine Jew, senior specialist, product communications, for Mitsubishi Motors North America, told AutoblogGreen that, "Yes, supply to PSA has been temporarily suspended, however production and sales of i-MiEVs around the world continues as usual. Therefore, this does not affect U.S. production of the i-MiEV."

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electric odyssey china

It's the little EV that could.

The car in question here is an all-electric Citroen C-Zero (a rebadged Mitsubishi i-MiEV) that two French engineers, Xavier Degon and Antonin Guy, are driving around the world, making it to China earlier this month. When we looked in on the Electric Odyssey in April, the drivers were in the Rockies. They started in Strasbourg, France last February and spent June in Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Even though the trip has been all-electric (well, not counting the fossil fuel required to get the car over the oceans), Citroen used the Odyssey's arrival in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, as "an opportunity to draw attention to its environmental strategy and the various solutions implemented by the Marque worldwide. For example: continuous improvements to combustion engines, the development of new hybrid-linked technologies, and all-electric vehicles." Using an EV adventure - one where the message is "If we can drive round the world in an electric car, you can use it for most of your day-to-day journeys" - to promote combustion engines? That's kind of ironic, no?

The Electric Odyssey is scheduled to arrive in Kazakhstan on August 10th and is in an electric race around the world against Rafael de Mestre and his Tesla Roadster. You can learn more about the Electric Odyssey on the website and see a video of the car in Japan below.

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BMW PSA Peugeot Citroen

File this one in the envelope labeled 'Unsurprising'.

BMW has announced, according to Bloomberg, that it is ending its partnership with PSA Peugeot Citroën just eight months after the agreement to collaborate on fuel-efficient vehicles was announced.

Recall that the dual-headed French automaker recently shacked up with General Motors - causing BMW to halt its fuel-cell-development talks with GM - to co-develop future technologies, and BMW announced its intentions to work more closely with Toyota. Reading between the lines, it seemed as if BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroën were content to go their separate ways.

The bits and pieces of the BMW Peugeot Citroën Electrification partnership that have already moved forward will be enveloped by BMW, though it's still unclear what will happen to the joint venture's employees. In any case, don't expect any of these automakers to slow down development of future fuel-efficient technologies.

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Price an electric vehicle right, and they'll beat a path to your door.

That statement was proved in spades by Citroen last week when the French automaker made 200 C-Zero battery-electric vehicles available for 23-month, 20,000 kilometers (about 12,500 miles) leases for the low, low price of 90 euros a month ($112 U.S. at today's exchange rates). The 200 EVs in the program were all gone in 24 hours, reports Technologic Vehicles.

There's a catch, of course. Citroen, along with partner Zilok Auto, runs the car-sharing service Multicity. As best as our French language skills and reading of the unclear English on Technologic Vehicles can make out, in order to lease the vehicle for just 90 euros a month, you have to register your EV with Multicity. Then, each time someone rents your car, you get 40 percent of the amount they pay, and Citroen and Zilok Auto split the rest. Technologic doesn't cite any sources, but says that "Citroen recommend a price of 30 € / day." That seems out of whack with the monthly cost of 90 euros, doesn't it?

In any case, last year, Citroën added the C-Zero to the vehicle rental service and Multicity itself was started in 2011. The C-Zero is the sister vehicle to the Mitsubishi i, which was rated by the EPA to go about 62 miles on a single charge. That model, which debuted as the i-MiEV in Japan in 2009, started sales in the U.S. in late 2011 with a base price of $29,125. Through the first five months of the year, Mitsubishi has sold 300 i vehicles in the U.S., including a monthly-record 85 last month.

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venturi mission africa electric vehicle

Venturi does more than create whimsical concept vehicles for auto shows. The company also supports electric vehicles going on long-distance adventures, like from Shanghai to Paris. The latest mission sends an EV along 4,800 kilometres (2,982 miles) from Kenya to South Africa. The trip started last month and the car already has 3,500 km (2,174 mi) under its tires. Venturi says the trip represents "a fabulous human and technological adventure in the interest of sustainable development."

To that end, driver Xavier Chevrin is doing public demonstrations with his "Powered by Venturi" electric Citroen Berlingo along the way. He's also doing press conferences and "endless explanations" to share EV technology and the ideas behind this kind of sustainable mobility across Africa. It's important to make friends with these lessons, since Chevrin didn't do any route planning to make sure he can get from outlet to outlet. As Venturi says, "the batteries will be recharged on the spot, depending on encounters with local inhabitants. As the production of electricity is largely of hydraulic origin at this time of year and in this part of Africa, the adventure will be, as much as possible, 'zero emission.'" It's bold plan - Venture says that 65 percent of Africans still do not have access to electricity - that is sure to draw attention to both electric drive technology and the complications of using it in a place that just isn't outfitted with a comprehensive grid.

Interested in learning more? We've embedded a few videos below and you can find the full flotilla on Venturi's YouTube channel. Also, check out the press release and see the Mission Africa website.

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Citroen Numero 9 Concept - front three-quarter static view

Citroën has finally given the world a closer look at the company's next DS design study. The French automaker is set to introduce the DS line to China this year, and the Numero 9 design study is set to mark the occasion. Citroën will officially unveil the concept at this month's Beijing Auto Show, and the manufacturer says the low-slung hatchback's design hints toward future products, namely a premium c-segment sedan, an SUV (read: crossover) and a larger D-segment four door. All we know is, it looks damn good.

The Numero 9 shooting brake is powered by a plug-in hybrid drivetrain that offers a 31-mile electric range and 295 horsepower. Not too shabby. Scroll down for an artsy video of the concept as well as the full press release. Of course, you can also sink your teeth into the dizzying slew of photos in the gallery above.

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Citroën c-zero

An attempt by two French engineers to drive a Citroen C-Zero battery-electric vehicle around the world hasn't been lost in translation... yet.

Xavier Degon and Antonin Guy, who started what they call the Electric Odyssey in Strasbourg, France in February, reached the Rockies this month, with plans to continue on to Asia after reaching the U.S. West Coast.

The two are planning for the eight-month trip to cover 17 countries, about 15,000 miles and about 250 Euros ($327 U.S. at today's exchange rates) in electricity consumption. The two drivers are traveling in 70-mile increments, relying on supporters - in addition to restaurants, gas stations and other retailers - for recharges, according to Wired. The reason? To "promote the image of the electric vehicles" while sharing information and energy with people around the world, according to the Electric Odyssey website.

Degon and Guy reached the U.S. via ship in early March. The drivers say they've had success finding recharging locations across the U.S. - even in many rural communities - but expect the task to become more difficult once they reach Asia, mostly because of language barriers.

The C-Zero is the sister vehicle to the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. That car debuted in Japan in April 2010 and started sales in Europe early last year. The American version, called the i, debuted stateside last November and is considered by the EPA to be the most fuel-efficient production vehicle (based on the miles per gallon equivalent ratings) sold in the U.S.

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There's an old adage that in racing, how fast you can go is directly correlated to the depth of your pockets. A similar truth applies to electric vehicle range, as the new world record holder can attest. BEA-tricks, a German company that specializes in EV conversions, recently packed a Citroen Berlingo with 10 (!) lithium-ion battery packs, the kind typically found in the Smart ED. With a whopping 180-kWh (!) of cells on hand, the Berlingo was able to scratch out 621 miles of travel in 17 hours (!) on a single charge. Even more impressive is the fact that the company says that the battery array still had plenty of power left over, and that the vehicle could have conceivably covered an additional 100 miles.

We're guessing the stop had more to do with the fact that BEA-tricks couldn't find anyone who could possibly stand being crammed into a Berlingo for 19 hours straight. There were other downsides, too. For starters, the vehicle's entire cargo area is consumed by the battery packs, and BEA-tricks isn't saying how much a conversion of this magnitude would cost. Our educated estimate puts the final figure somewhere between "a lot" and "a whole lot."

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BMW PSA Electrification

Question: If BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroen were to enter into a partnership to build electric vehicles, what would it be called? Answer: BMW Peugeot Citroen Electrification. Imaginative, no?

The companies signed a memorandum of understanding in February of 2011, and have now made the union official. A total of 100 million euros is being invested in the joint venture right off the bat, and 400 employees will be put to work at a new Research and Development Center in Munich by the end of 2011.

Until 2015, when production of actual electric and hybrid vehicle components gets underway at a facility in Mulhouse, France, expect the European automakers to work closely together on future fuel efficient technologies and strategies.

Feel free to read all about it in the press release after the break.

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The totally redesigned Citroen DS5 will hit dealerships in November 2011 in France and elsewhere (including China, Russia and Latin America). So, too, will the diesel HYbrid4 version of the DS5.

Though pricey (approximately £30,000 or $47,700 U.S. at today's exchange rate), Citroen says the diesel electric version of the DS5 will account for 20 percent of annual DS5 sales, which Citroen predicts to be approximately 40,000 units. For comparison, the non-hybrid DS5 is expected to retail for around £26,000 ($41,340 U.S.).

The French automaker predicts the diesel-electric DS5 will sell in volume because of some great results in the combined consumption test - 3.8 liter/100 kilometers, which is 61.9 miles per gallon U.S. - on Europe's lenient fuel economy cycle. That's impressive considering the non-hybrid diesel DS5 returns only 38.5 mpg (U.S.). With its spectacular fuel economy numbers, we'd assume that buyers who don't opt for the HYbrid4 version of the DS5 either made an ill-advised choice or couldn't swing the $6,000 premium.

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Honda Jazz Hybrid

Here in the States, the Toyota Prius is the reigning hybrid sales champ and the Nissan Leaf dominates the plugged-in segment, but the electrified vehicle industry picture is quite different over in France.

Sales of hybrid vehicles in France shot up by 46 percent in September of 2011, grabbing 0.8 percent of the total automotive market. On top, with 455 units sold in September, was the Honda Jazz Hybrid, followed closely by the Toyota Auris at 380 units and the Prius at 139 units.

Meanwhile, electric vehicles captured less than 0.2 percent of the sales pie. September's plug-in sales over in France included: 109 Renault Fluence Z.E., 51 Bolloré Bluecar, 62 Peugeot iOn, 39 Citroen C-Zero, 17 Nissan Leaf, 13 Mia and 10 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive.

Sales of gasoline-fueled vehicles represented 26.6 percent of total automotive sales in France, meaning that diesels - those vehicles thought to be stinky, noisy, smoke-spewing machines that don't sell well here in the U.S. - nabbed a shocking 72 percent of sales.

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GE PSA

The road to 25,000 EVs is paved one car at at time.

At the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show,PSA Peugeot Citroen and General Electric signed an agreement that calls for the co-development of e-mobility in Europe. The non-exclusive agreement, will see GE Capital lease Peugeot and Citroen electric vehicles across most of Europe. This deal follows GE's shocking announcement in November 2010 that it would be buying 25,000 plug-in vehicles for its and it's partners' fleet. GE says it's looking to buy up to 1,000 electric vehicles from PSA Peugeot Citroen by the end of 2015 and that it will lease those battery-powered rides to fleets across Europe.

Both GE and PSA Peugeot Citroen intend to cooperate on the creation of an Electric Vehicle Customer Experience Center in France. GE Energy's Industrial Solutions will supply and deploy charging stations, including WattStation residential and commercial units.

PSA Peugeot Citroen has been manufacturing and selling electric vehicles since 1995. More recently, the French automotive conglomerate launched the Citroen C-Zero and Peugeot iOn, both derivatives of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV.

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Governor or Kaluga with president of Mitsubishi MotorsMitsubishi Motors Corporation, along with Rolf Import, MMC's exclusive Russian distributor, and the Government of Russia's Kaluga Region signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that calls for the three parties to collaborate on several projects aimed at improving the natural environment of the Kaluga Region.

This MoU includes promotion of electric vehicles and their related infrastructure, as well as work on reducing the region's level of CO2 emissions and increasing energy efficiency in Kaluga.

Though the MOU doesn't specifically call for Mitsubishi to deploy its electric i-MiEV in Kaluga, we'd assume that's in the works too. With a prohibitively expensive retail price of 1,799,000 rubles ($61,997 U.S. at the current exchange rate), we don't think the i-MiEV will be flying off dealer lots anytime soon. There might be something the government can do about this, though, since Rolf Import claims it's the absence of subsidies that is holding back the i-MiEV in Russia.

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Peugeot Prologue

Aside from pure electric vehicles like the C-Zero and iOn, PSA Peugeot Citroën has announced that it's aiming to pack its lineup full of "eco-friendly" vehicles. The goal, according to PSA Peugeot-Citroen chief executive officer Phillippe Varin, is to launch an "eco-friendly solution" in all vehicle segments.

This decision, according to Ward's Auto (sub. req.) is one of necessity, meaning that in order to comply with European Union targets for fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions, PSA Peugeot-Citroen will have to make available a range of fuel-efficient vehicles.

To that end, PSA Peugeot-Citroen is expected to gear up for production of both a naturally aspirated and a turbocharged, 1.2-liter three-cylinder engine. Both mills will be Euro 6 compliant. Come early 2013, these downsized gassers will join PSA Peugeot-Citroen's extensive stable of fuel-sipping diesel engines.

[Source: Ward's Auto - sub. req.]

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