Hybrid pickup truck — a new trend that will try to capture California. Circulation of new products will be small: Chevrolet Silverado will be collected 500 copies, and the GMC Sierra, and even less — 200.
The power plant, it is also mild hybrid («mild hybrid»), it consists of a 5.3-liter V8 petrol engine, an electric motor and lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 0.45 kW / h.
Regarding the 13-horsepower electric motor, it is connected at sharp accelerations during the half cylinder deactivation at low loads and together with a «start-stop». It should be noted that as the engine recovers energy during braking.
In combined cycle pickup need only 13 liters per 100 kilometers, which is 13 percent less vehicles with good old V8.
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