Hybrid Opel Grandland drove more than 1000 kilometers on one tank

At the same time, his passport indicator for the WLTP cycle does not reach 900 a little. Interestingly, the tests were brought at a temperature of only 11 ° C, the cars were “shod” into winter tires, and the route ran along city, suburban roads and highways.

The Opel Grandland Plug-in Hybrid crossover was able to drive more than 1000 kilometers on one tank, showing the average consumption of 4.6 liters. The tests were carried out in January, with windy and rainy weather, when the thermometer showed 11 ° C. The Opel engineer team started in the Rhine-Maine region. Then she rode through Rysselsheim and Frankfurt to the Rhine-Nekkar and returned to the starting point. The route ran along the city streets, a suburban highway and high -speed highways – in general, it looked like a regular trip.

Grandland Plug-in Hybrid passport in a combined cycle is 900 kilometers, of which 85 are electricity. The temperature of the WLTP cycle tests is recorded at a level of 23 ° C, however, even at lower values ​​(at the end of the journey it was 4 ° C), with winter tires and in the maximum configuration of the crossover, as the company is assured, was able to overcome 1115 kilometers, and a third of This is without the launch of the internal combustion engine. The average speed was 80 kilometers per hour, which is also very good.

Record runs of hybrids have long become the norm, here Grandland is only one of many. For example, BYD benzoelectric models in real tests passed more than 2500 kilometers, and the lowest consumption was 1.79 liters. These machines were equipped with a DM-I 5.0 system, consisting of a four 1.5 with a capacity of 101 horsepower and 126 nm of torque and an electric motor with a return of 163 or 218 forces. Combined Grandland Plug-in Hybrid-195 forces and 350 nm.

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