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Volkswagen is redefining the auto with the L1, a bullet-shaped agent amalgam that weighs beneath than 900 pounds, gets an amazing 170 mpg and ability see assembly aural four years. Volkswagen rocked the automotive apple at a lunchtime columnist appointment on the aboriginal day of the Frankfurt Motor Appearance with a carbon fiber, bisected width, 1-liter amalgam electric agent bike two-seater car called the L1. Back the car makes assembly in 2013, four years from now, it will about absolutely be the best ammunition able car accessible with a accumulated agent ammunition burning amount of 1.38 l/100km, acknowledgment to its frugal motor combo, feather-like weight – 380 kg in absolute – and an aerodynamic annoyance co-efficient of aloof 0.195.
Seven years ago, we appear on the development of Volkswagen’s bike 1-Liter car. At that time, the anticipation of a assembly adaptation of the abolitionist two-seater, which accomplished ammunition burning of one liter ammunition per 100 kilometers, was so alien as to be unthinkable.
Though the car was apprenticed from Wolfsburg to Hamburg as a accessible affirmation by Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, at that time Administrator of the Lath of Management and today Administrator of the Supervisory Lath of the Volkswagen Group, it was bright that a assembly adaptation lay in the far future, if ever.
The L1 is the additional bearing of the 1-liter car, and abutting to assembly readiness. And its ambit are arresting – the breadth of the L1 at 3,813 millimeters is still agnate to that of a Volkswagen Fox, and its acme of 1,143 millimeters about matches that of a Lamborghini Murciélago, while the car’s aerodynamically optimized amplitude (1,200 millimeters) has no comparisons in the apple of today’s assembly cars.
The L1 abstraction car apparent at the Frankfurt auto appearance pushes the boundaries of agent architecture and draws added afflatus from gliders than accepted automobiles. The abandoned catechism the company’s engineers asked back designing the L1 was, “How would a car accept to attending and be congenital to absorb as little activity as possible.” Their acknowledgment was small, ablaze and acutely aerodynamic. Those guidelines led to a car that requires aloof 1.38 liters of agent ammunition to go 100 kilometers.
Although the L1 is aloof a concept, VW says the bike two-seater credibility the way against a approaching model.
“Volkswagen is authoritative a bright statement,” the aggregation said in a statement. “The L1 represents a footfall advanced into the approaching with absolutely new technology and new design; advocate yet abutting to assembly readiness.”
The L1 updates an abstraction Volkswagen has been blame about back 2002, back Dr. Ferdinand Piëtch, again the administrator of the board, collection the 1-Liter microcar from Wolfsburg to Hamburg. The car drew its name from the actuality it bare one liter of ammunition to go 100 kilometers. The 1-Liter was a abstruse curiosity congenital of carbon cilia and magnesium, but it was so ridiculously big-ticket VW knew it wasn’t practical. Piëtch shelved the project, addition it wouldn’t be financially applicable for addition decade.
VW now thinks the car’s time has come.
The L-1 is added artful than the 1-Liter we saw aftermost year back Britain’s Car annual said VW had greenlighted the project. The drivetrain appearance a two-cylinder turbodiesel displacing aloof 800 cubic centimeters. It runs in two modes: “Eco,” alms 20 application (26 horsepower); and “Sport,” with 29 application (39 horsepower). Maximum torque is 74 pound-feet. The agent is akin to a 10 kilowatt electric motor, which VW chip into a seven-speed DSG automated gearbox.
Electric motors accommodate abundant torque, and VW says the motor in the L1 bliss in beneath adamantine dispatch to accommodate up to 40 percent added grunt. It additionally can actuate the car on its own, admitting VW doesn’t say how far the L1 will go on electricity alone. VW additionally didn’t action any specs on the lithium-ion battery, which gets a addition from adorning braking.
Start-stop technology helps advance ammunition economy. The ammunition catchbasin holds aloof 1.7 gallons, and VW says says the car gets 1.38 l/100 km. That works out to 170.4 mpg by our math. VW claims the L1 emits aloof 36 grams per kilometer of carbon dioxide. For the annual of comparison, the 2010 Toyota Prius emits 89 g/km.
The L1 looks clashing annihilation abroad on the road, which is absolutely what VW had in mind.
“The architecture of the L1 redefines archetypal and artful agent traits,” Walter de’Silva, arch of architecture for the VW Group, said in a statement. “Especially significant, of course, is how the about rocket-shaped curve bolt one’s attention. All of its affective genitalia are chip so accurately that the anatomy resembles a rocket or jet. It is a anatomy that cuts through the wind with basal aerodynamic resistance.”
Indeed. The L1 has a claimed annoyance accessory of aloof 0.195. That matches the General Motors EV1, which is the best aerodynamic assembly car anytime built, but is hardly beneath aerodynamic than the first-gen 1-Liter.
A carbon-fiber monocoque and carbon cilia exoteric skin, both developed with technology acquired from Formula 1 and aerospace manufacturing, annual for the L1’s cool flyweight 380 kilograms (837 pounds). The anatomy abandoned weighs aloof 124 kilograms (273 pounds). The car is 12.5 anxiety continued and 3.75 anxiety tall, authoritative it about as low as a Lamborghini Murcielago. There are no doors, abandoned a jet-like awning that swings up from the larboard side. There’s allowance for two, one abaft the other, and anybody sits in carbon cilia seats. Instruments are laid out in a 180-degree ambit in advanced of the driver, and there are no mirrors, abandoned cameras that affectation images on amoebic light-emitting diode displays.
VW says the L1 is altogether safe, with the disciplinarian and commuter cautiously ensconced in a carbon cilia assurance corpuscle and adequate by arch and side-curtain airbags. The advanced of the car appearance an aluminum blast structure.
The chat out of Frankfurt, according to The New York Times, is VW will body a bound cardinal of these abutting year. Officially, VW says we’ll accept to delay a little longer.
“2013 is the ambition year for this approaching dream car to become a reality,” the aggregation said in a statement.
