2022 Nissan Qashqai e-Power
The tenacity of Japanese engineers apparently knows no bounds. As early as the 1960s, they surprised us with tiny engines and rated speeds of 8,000 rpm. Almost every European engineer would have sworn that
something like this would not last long and lost a possible bet.
Recently, the serial hybrid appears increasingly from the Far East, which is not given a chance from the point of view of physics, simply because it makes little sense to generate kinetic energy with chemical, which is then
converted into electricity and then converted back into kinetic energy. Range extenders belonged to this genus for a long time, but have also largely disappeared.
Now there is another approach, this time from Nissan. Apparently, the combustion engine does not always run at the same rpm, but it is so efficient that it more than compensates for the loss in efficiency. However, it makes
you sit up and take notice that this time a significantly upgraded combustion engine is part of the game.
Nissan presented the principle already some time ago. Take a look at the construction of the crank drive and state that the compression can actually be changed between 8 and 14:1 via the shaft below and its drive, to be
emphasized, of course, at any time during operation.
Unfortunately, there is no video that shows the actual, permanent mechanical separation of the combustion engine and the drive. So far we are used to finding a clutch that allows such a one in a certain mode. And of course,
they never tire of emphasizing the benefits of recuperation with one-pedal driving up to 10 km/h.
We remain skeptical and cannot classify the specified 5.3 - 5.4 l/100km according to WLTP. The CO2 emissions don't sound bad, but they're not earth-shattering either. Somewhere, a consumption on the
Autobahn of 6.5 l/100km is said to have been communicated by Nissan. That would be almost at the level of a combustion engine.
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