through the road hybrid

Peugeot has officially started taking orders for its diesel-electric 3008 HYbrid4 over in Europe. Priced from £26,995 ($43,659 U.S. at the current exchange rate) in the UK, the world's first production diesel through-the-road hybrid seems a decent value. The mid-size crossover uses a ...

Protean Electric claims its in-wheel motors, when installed in a diesel Vauxhall Vivaro, boosted the van's fuel economy by some 300 percent (!) in European drive-cycle tests. Protean Electric outfitted the front-wheel-drive Vivaro with a through-the-road hybrid conversion kit consisting of two ...

Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the company information about a plug-in architecture. But our spy photographers have discovered what's believed to be ...

Most of the automotive attention in China this week is focused on the Beijing Motor Show where a wide variety of new production and concept cars will be debuting. Following the Beijing festivities, the Shanghai Expo ...

At the Geneva Motor Show, Peugeot has announced that one year after it introduces its first diesel hybrid based on the 3008 crossover, it will launch a plug-in version of the same vehicle. The 3008 will be the first vehicle to use the PSA-developed Hybrid4 system and, unless someone like ...

The new SR1 concept is the latest in a series of concepts produced by Peugeot and its sister brand Citroen over the last several years with a partially electric drivetrain called Hybrid4. Unlike the power-split systems produced by ...

Yet another high performance "green" car has turned up and will be publicly unveiled at the Dubai Motor Show this week. This mid-engine two-seat hybrid comes from a previously unknown outfit called Kepler. The Kepler Motion packs a Ford ...

The Nissan Qashqai compact crossover is set for an update in 2010 and it may get a new through-the-road hybrid system. The Qashqa, built at Nissan's UK plant and sold in European markets, currently uses a conventional all wheel drive system driven by a take-off from the front transaxle. The new ...

Last fall at the Paris Motor Show, Peugeot and Citroen showed off several concepts using a through the road hybrid powertrain dubbed HYmotion4. The system has now been renamed HYbrid4 and the first confirmed production application of the HYbrid4 ...

Traditionally, automakers use the biggest auto shows in their home countries as a platform to display their latest and greatest ideas, both aesthetic and technological. Such was clearly the case this week at the Paris Motor Show for PSA, the ...