New Proton Exora Hybrid Car 2010 pictures and reviews
Apparently there are some Proton Exora Amalgam prototypes active about in Lotus UK and Proton’s managing administrator Datuk Syed Zainal Syed Mohamad Tahir accepted in a address with Bernama that he has approved them out. The prototypes were developed in accord with Lotus and assorted hybrid-related basic suppliers like array manufacturers.
The amalgam Exoras will be alien to Malaysia by the end of this ages or at the latest by aboriginal 2010, apparently to abide R&D and testing beneath bounded altitude and conditions. But they won’t be activity into assembly that soon, aboriginal Proton will accumulate some amalgam models for government agile use. Mass assembly of amalgam cars will appear in 2011.
In March 2007, we got a glimpse of a Proton-Lotus amalgam agent accord alleged the Proton GEN2 EVE Amalgam Concept. Basically the 1.6 liter Campro was accumulated with a 30kW (40hp) electric motor and a CVT transmission. As a result, accumulated achievement is 141 horses, abundant to booty the car from 0 to 100km/h in 9 seconds. The accepted Campro’s torque achievement goes up from 148Nm to a actual nice 233Nm from aloof 1,500rpm.
Proton flew the car in for the Proton Technology Week in August 2008 but no media got to drive it – alone our ex-PM had a go at the council wheel.
Assuming a similiar bureaucracy is used, I can see how a Proton Exora would account from 233Nm of torque at such a low RPM. It would advance driveability by bucketloads, and with a CVT manual the agent would consistently be in its best able acceleration band.
Lotus has additionally showcased a new ‘range extender’ amalgam arrangement beforehand this year. The Lotus ambit extender arrangement basically uses an electric motor as the sole propulsion unit, but the array can be answerable by a 1.2 liter 3-cylinder agent that operates alone as a architect – it does not drive the wheels.
