Audi A1 e-tron Hybrid Car

Audi builds the new e-tron model range at the Geneva Motor Show continues: The Audi A1 is an e-tron Mega City Vehicle (MCV), with innovative drive technology. For zero emission urban driving he provides a powerful electric motor. In addition, an internal combustion engine on board, reloading the battery in the exceptional case. Thanks to the excellence of its electric motor of 75 kW (102 hp) drives the A1 e-tron extremely agile.
This vehicle is a prototype and can not be bought!
The model family e-tron from Audi is a few months old, and yet she has had several faces. It uses very different technology concepts Audi. The first e-tron, who stood in 2009 at the IAA in Frankfurt / Main, is a series production electric performance sports car with all four wheels. In the study of the Detroit Motor Show in 2010, there is a light, compact two-seater with two electric motors at the rear.

The A1 e-tron now presents another approach – a compact electric car in the premium class. The four-seat, two-door city car MCV is designed for everyday use in urban areas designed, for example in Europe, North America and the wildly growing megacities in Asia and South America. The Audi A1 e-tron always drives with electric drive. Its engine is only to reload the battery in individual cases.
The integration of new technologies is the holistic approach, the Audi pursues the electrical driving. Behind the three e-tron models already is a diversified, modular building block technology. The goal is to use energy with minimal losses. The precise interaction of the components, their intelligent packaging, and efficient management of flows to show the technology expertise of the brand in this field. To keep the battery, the electric motor and power electronics in their respective ideal temperature windows, Audi has developed a proprietary thermal management. The Audi A1 e-tron is the e-machine, a synchronous motor, placed transversely in the bow – its deep mounting position will go to the center of gravity. They are 45 kW (61 HP) from steady state, the short-term usable peak power is 75 kW (102 PS). The 150 Nm of torque are available from the state, and the top scores torque is 240 Nm.

The forces of the electric flow in a single-stage gear, which forwards them to the front wheels. To select the speed steps “before”, “Back” and “Neutral” an elegant, retractable lever is on the console of the central tunnel, as he was already in the first Audi e-tron installed.
In the engine on the E-machine sits the power electronics. Its main features include the Pulswechsel converter, which serves as a controller between the electric motor, and battery, the DC converter, which docked the 14-volt electrical system to a high voltage, a switching unit to secure the high-voltage components and the loading module. Behind the rings in the single-frame of the Audi A1 e-tron is the jack for the unit Slade plug. When fully discharged battery charging takes on 380-volt power for about three hours. A display next to the plug-in connection shows the current state of charge and time remaining.
The concept of innovative Mega City Vehicles requires it to electrify important accessories. It states, inter alia, the refrigerant compressor of the air through a high-voltage electric motor and electric depending on the current power demand driven. The system efficiency increases significantly over conventional approaches. Thanks to a special circuit of the climate cycle also acts as a heat pump, the temperature of the interior and the battery.