The XP-883 was an experimental plug-in hybrid car demonstrated by General Motors in 1969. A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle ( PHEV) is a Hybrid vehicle with batteries that can be recharged by connecting a plug to an Electric power General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. Primarily intended as a commuter vehicle, the very small car had a fiberglass body with a design resembling the then-future Chevrolet Vega or Ford Pinto. Fiberglass (also called fibreglass and glass fibre see Spelling differences) is material made from extremely fine Fibers of Glass. The Chevrolet Vega was a Subcompact car sold from 1971 through 1977 The Ford Pinto was a subcompact manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market first introduced on September 11, 1970 The two-door hatchback had seating for two adults and two children, though the children sat in rear-facing seats and would enter and exit through the tailgate. Hatchback is a term designating an Automobile design containing a passenger cabin with an integrated Cargo space accessed from behind the vehicle by a single It was powered by the combination of a two-cylinder engine and a DC electric motor. Direct current ( DC) is the unidirectional flow of Electric charge. An electric motor uses Electrical energy to produce Mechanical energy. Electricity was stored in six 12-volt batteries placed between the rear wheels.
At 35 cubic inches (about 575 cubic centimeters), the engine was small enough to bypass laws of the day mandating emissions control devices like catalytic converters. A catalytic converter (colloquially "cat" or "catcon" is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an Internal combustion engine. The batteries could be charged using a standard 115 volt wall outlet and could power the vehicle in all-electric mode in city driving. In hybrid mode, it had a maximum speed of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h), which could be reached in 28 seconds. 40 mph (64 km/h) could be attained in 12 seconds. The electric motor powered the car until it reached 10 mph (16 km/h), at which point the gasoline engine would kick in when running in hybrid mode. At cruising speeds, the gasoline engine would normally provide all of the power.
While the XP-883 was built using off-the-shelf technology, General Motors did not provide an electric car to consumers until about 25 years later when the GM EV1 was made available for lease (at the same time the factory Chevrolet S10E was manufactured for sale as opposed to strictly for lease). The EV1 was the first modern production electric vehicle from a major automaker and also the first purpose-built Electric car produced by General Motors (GM in the The Chevrolet S-10 Electric was introduced in 1997 by General Motors, updated in 1998 and then discontinued GM's full hybrid system appeared first in their city buses and their first "mild" hybrid light vehicles appeared in the 2000s decade. Global Hybrid Cooperation (formerly called Advanced Hybrid System 2 or AHS2) is a set of Hybrid vehicle technologies jointly developed by General Motors A light vehicle (non-bus) version of their full hybrid system will appear in 2007 (MY 2008) in the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid. As of 2007, GM has plans to introduce plug-in hybrids including an updated Saturn Vue Green Line and a vehicle based on the Chevrolet Volt concept car, though specific dates have not yet been set. The Saturn Vue is a compact Crossover SUV from General Motors ' Saturn Marque, and was Saturn's top-selling model in the United The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in series hybrid vehicle by General Motors, with production
External links
- Finkbuilt: Hybrid Car Ready in 1969 – with pages from a July 1969 article in Popular Science (pp. For the 1935-1949 film series see Popular Science (film. Popular Science is an American monthly Magazine founded in 1872 86-7. )
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