Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Tech, Paris Motor Show, Crossovers/CUVs, Peugeot, Citroen
Peugeot plans to offer its 3008 CUV with a diesel-electric hybrid by 2011. The step after that is to add plug-in capability, but those plans have been pushed back “a year or two” because of the economy. With R&D budgets pinched by slim sales, the investment in the technology simply can’t be justified right now, especially in light of Peugeot’s assertion that such cars will sell in “in the tens of thousands, not millions.”
As exhibits of Peugeot’s intention to employ the diesel-hybrid drivetrain, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen showed three concepts at last year’s Paris Motor Show that employed the technology: the Peugeot Prologue HYmotion4, the Peugeot RC HYmotion4, and the Citroen Hypnos. Nevertheless, the head of Peugeot’s hybrid innovations unit said plug-in hybrid production – and we would guess the actual date of any PSA hybrid production at all – would “depend on battery costs.”
[Source: Automotive News, sub req'd]
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