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May 5, 2008 – Vol.13 No.7 AFS Trinity, Ricardo Launch Extreme Fleet(TM) Plug-in Hybrid Program. The joint program will offer fleet vehicles that use no gasoline at all on most days without sacrificing vehicle size or power. The Extreme Fleet program will focus on building and licensing special purpose vehicles using specially designed or existing car, truck and SUV platforms. Extreme Hybrids custom built for delivery, service fleets, law enforcement, will reduce fuel and operating costs 75 percent without compromising performance. Extreme Hybrids also accelerate faster than gasoline-only versions of the same model cars. The new Extreme Fleet program will be headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA, with special purpose vehicle development to be conducted at AFS Trinity's engineering center in Livermore, California as well as at Ricardo facilities in the US, Europe and Asia. "Our Extreme Hybrid SUV's travel more than 40 miles in all electric mode on an overnight charge. There are hundreds of thousands of fleet vehicles in the US that travel less than 40 miles a day," Furia said. "On these days, Extreme Hybrid versions of these fleet vehicles will use no gasoline or diesel at all. In situations or days when longer trips are required, they can automatically switch to conventional hybrid mode and travel any distance."
In January, AFS Trinity unveiled the first 150 mpg SUV prototypes, called the XH-150. The Extreme Hybrid can travel up to 87 miles per hour and have a range of 40 miles in all-electric mode on an overnight charge of household current. AFS Trinity's patent-pending Extreme Hybrid(TM) drive train utilizes ultra-capacitors, batteries and proprietary power and control electronics for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The employment of ultra-capacitors allows for the use of a small, lower cost lithium-ion battery pack. Ricardo’s engineering expertise ranges from vehicle systems integration, controls, electronics and software development, to the latest driveline and transmission systems and gasoline, diesel, hybrid and fuel cell power train technologies. (5/2/08)
Links: AFS Trinity Ricardo
Related: Ricardo Wins Funding for US Department of Energy Fuel Efficiency R&D Projects.
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