Forgotten Concept: Saturn Flextreme
Saturn Flextreme Concept This is an installment in a series of blog posts recalling
on program autos that we really feel was worthy of a little even more interest than they obtained. If you have a suggestion for a ForgottenConcept subject, please shoot us a line or leave a comment below. Saturn Flextreme Shown: 2008 Detroit Auto Show Summary: Plug-in crossbreed compact car Sales Pitch:”Flextreme reveals that unusual reasoning can lead to wonderful autos.”More Forgotten Concepts Saturn Flextreme Details: First seen at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, the Saturn Flextreme Concept was an online clone of the Opel Flextreme
Concept which had been introduced at the 2007 Frankfort Auto Show just a couple of weeks earlier. The Flextreme idea was a 4-door portable auto featuring a plug-in serial-hybrid drivetrain similar to that presented in the Chevrolet Volt Concept presented at the Detroit Show a year earlier. Unlike the Volt Concept, which included a tiny fuel engine, the Flextreme was powered by a little 1.3-liter diesel.
When totally billed, the Flextreme was claimed to travel as much as 34 miles on electric power alone, after which the diesel engine took over. Saturn declared a combined electric/diesel variety of 444 miles. The Flextreme featured center-opening side doors which, when opened up together, produced a usefully huge passage to the vehicle’s inside.
Instead of a back hatch, the Flextreme incorporated a set of gullwing-style doors located on the cars and truck’s back bodyside. For city travelers, a pair of Segway Personal Transporters were saved under the lorry’s cargo location and can be accessed from outside of the vehicle.
No word on if the Segway batteries were billed while in storage under the vehicle. Forgotten Concept: Briggs & Stratton Hybrid Saturn Flextreme CG Says: The Chevrolet Volt Concept was revealed to much excitement back in 2007, yet the buzz might have come mainly from the car press, which seemed to recognize the E-Flex plug-in hybrid system better than the general public.
When the manufacturing Volt got here for 2011, public response was lukewarm at best, as General Motors managed public as well as media hesitation, specifically that from Fox News. Because of this, Volt versions like the Opel and Saturn Flextreme never ever matured into complete production models. Sadly, the E-Flex principle– which is differ just like Nissan’s e-Power system— never ever saw life beyond the Volt, unless you count the brief, and very unusual, Cadillac ELR.
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