The new Toyota Prius from the inside – Interia

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Spring for Toyota dealerships in Poland ended the fourth generation Prius. New car returns from afar dynamic design and the close is even more interesting.

Using the Copy car specially prepared for the training of staff, Dr. Eng. Andrew Szałek from the Academy of Toyota and Lexus Toyota Motor Poland presents innovations in Priusie fourth generation, so that we can see things normally invisible to the user.

Toyota Prius IV – how it is built? /

By the sections we look in the nooks and crannies of the body. By using more elements made of high strength and a larger number of weld seams, it has a stiffness of about 60% greater, than the previous generation model. The use of steel with a strength of 980 MPa or more increased in the new model from 3 to 19 percent, and the welds made by laser. To increase the rigidity of the body also contributed to the optimization of the structure using the structures of the ring.

Increased body rigidity combined with independent wheel suspension front and rear axle provide excellent properties driving, which can be felt especially during cornering.

radically modernized hybrid, which, thanks to Toyota’s solutions can operate in parallel, serial, serial-to-parallel and purely electric. The result of improvements characteristics of the drive system is a rapid acceleration in the medium load, usually used while driving.

The hybrid drive unit Prius has gained a new engine in the world with the highest thermal efficiency of gasoline of 40 percent. Also improved electrical system, and above all his heart – the inverter by 20 percent by reducing energy losses. The new inverter is at the 1/3 smaller than the previous one, which allowed transfer 12 V battery from the trunk to the engine, increasing the capacity of the trunk.

ended a two-day rally Toyota Economy Race 2016 in which automotive journalists competed with each other in terms of the lowest fuel consumption at the wheel of the new Toyota Prius. The best result obtained during the event amounted to only 2,970 l / 100 km in city driving and 2,687 l / 100 km … read more
                     

In Priusie IV uses high voltage traction battery with a new design, thanks to which it is able to accept a unit of time or pay about 30 percent more energy. It is also lower by 10 percent, which allowed placing it under the rear seats and larger luggage space.

From the new constructed the transmission system. Planetary reduction gear electric drive motor was replaced with a gear roller, which is about 20 percent smaller internal resistance, and at the same time is 6 percent lighter and shorter than 5 cm, which increases the efficiency of the propulsion system on the front axle.

Each element the new Prius was designed from the ground up so that the car is more functional and comfortable, and also has low fuel consumption. In addition to improved drive system contributes to the well worked out in terms of aerodynamic body with an extremely low coefficient of drag Cx equal to 0.24.

declared by the manufacturer’s average fuel consumption is 3.6 liters per 100 km. And these are not idle boast – the staged today in Galicia this year’s journalistic rally Economy Toyota Race winning crew received an average fuel consumption only 2.807 l / 100 km!