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BMW X3 Efficient Dynamics Concept
Once you get passed the name, the BMW X3 Efficient Dynamics Concept is essentially a hybrid. X3 While the lower part of the X3 looks like Doc Brown installed a flux capacitor in BMW's littlest SUV, the X3 hybrid concept is a step toward production hybrid technology for BMW. The concept is also supposed to take advantage of super capacitors for rapid power delivery from the electric side of the hybrid drive train. BMW made it very clear, hybrids will become part of their strategy in the future. Their goal with this 'study' was to develop a hybrid system that would still offer the performance that BMW is known for. While BMW stated the X3 Hybrid shown will not make it into production as we see it, you can be sure the systems developed here will show up in the future. BMW has also just recently signed a memorandum of understanding with DCX and GM to jointly develop hybrids. These three may be the right mix to develop performance driven hybrid technology to take some hybrid market share from the Toyota's grip.
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Jari Mueller 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Mercedes has a hybrid out now too, http://emercedesbenz.com/Sep05/13MercedesIntroducesHybridSClass.htm
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Robert Brodrecht 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Is this the "Electrocharged" BMW (http://www.sigmaautomotive.com/electrocharger/electrocharger.php) I've heard about? Sigma Automotive claims that they have worked with BMW, and this "super-capacitor" stuff reads right out of their website...
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Joel A 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
C'mon, Jaguar, where's the S-type hybrid...?
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Mal Fuller 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Randall,
Did you mean "once you get PAST the name..." Sorry, but I've already let you PASS on a few today!
Your Pal Mal
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Greg Koenig 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
So the Autoblog guys whip out 15-20 posts a day, probably whilst in the middle of their day jobs, to give YOU free news content from the automotive world. Now, I am not trying to imply that we should genueflect in front of our Autoblog Gods or anything, but would it be so much that the armchair editors not subject us all to their petty corrections? I know that it is a nice way to feel superior, wielding that honed command of the English language around with rapier wit, jumping on anyone who would dare offend the Lords of Oxford, but it is really annoying to the rest of us who just want our automotive news and I am sure greatly annoying to the Autobloggers. This is their house and we are guests. Act accordingly.
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Mal Fuller 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed today, Greg Koenig, or are you always chronically humorless?
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