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Wave of landscaping rapidly captures the world. In a global war with harmful emissions, VW brought to the advanced Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion

In a global war with harmful emissions, VW brought his special brigade to the forefront. People have closeed there, though friendly but mischievous.

When you read this text, the Vakhanalia Ecologists in Copenhagen will already end. From the TV will no longer broadcast about the salvation of land, environmental technologies and green movement. But do not think that you are easy to fall. Wave of landscaping rapidly captures the world. I have happened so long ago to experience the beauty of an eco-friendly future for yourself.

The new umbrella brand VW, which combined all the nature friendly technologies, is performed quite in the spirit of time. That's just the name for the new brand picked up some strange for the Russian ear. Bluemotion Technologies. Blue traffic technology?! In English, the Blue epithet is used to designate sadness, depression. And in Russia, the definition of blue somehow does not at all relate to the field of ecology.

Maybe the whole thing is that the Germans are sad because of their lag behind the Japanese in the race to the environmental future? Indeed, Toyota releases its hybrid cars with hundreds of thousands, Honda launched in small-scale production of hydrogen FCX \u200b\u200bCLARITY, and even American monstrument sizes have hybrid versions. And in Wolfsburg, there is nothing like that. The firstborn will be Touareg Hybrid, who debuts this year.


This scheme demonstrates the operation of the braking energy recuperator, which allows you to charge the battery on braking, and not on acceleration. Without going into details, I note that the system is effective even when driving around the freeway with a minimum braking

So, the situation in the battle for the ecology will not come up with worse. The enemy surrounds, but there is no heavy artillery. Under these conditions, it was decided to send the team to the forefront? Considering that green and blue together is the color of the sea wave, and let's call this advanced detachment: a brigade of the sea wave. Even poetically, it turns out. Our soldiers are armed with the most common-hand: TDI, TSI, DSG, FSI Wait-ka! And where is the ecology? It turns out that all these technologies reduce CO2 emissions and fuel consumption will answer you in Wolfsburg. Understood, gentlemen? You turn out to go to friendly ecology machines! And you, I like, and did not know. But if the struggle for the ecology was carried out only by these means, we would have long lived in the desert. Therefore, Germans have a whole range of cars with various eco-econ. ECOFUEL (engines running natural gas), Bifuel (engines working on liquefied gas), MultiFuel (engines running on ethanol) These words also from the word Bluemotion Technologies. And on top of this pyramid of modifications and technologies there is a POLO, GOLF and PASSAT BlueMotion trio, which consume 3.3 l, 3.8 l and 4.4 liters per hundred, respectively.

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Beautiful and sports even in the Bluemotion version. The color of the barrel and before us hot hatch. The design of the wheeled disks was also designed specifically to reduce air resistance. Pay attention to the rear spoiler of economical Polo: This is a small aerodynamic masterpiece. On the left dashboard Passat. Is it not true, unusually see such digits of consumption on the d-class sedan? Thanks to thanks to the tips of switching moments


This modest nameplate can now be found on any concern car. After all, almost all of them are equipped with something from the long list of environmental technologies VW

And managed to ride them. You are probably interested in the answer to the question: whether VW is lying, calling these numbers, or not. I answer: not lying. At Polo, I showed the claimed 3.3 liters, and on Passat even exceeded the factory figures per 100 milliliters of 4.3 liters. Only Golf deceived my expectations. As I tried, but less than 4 liters per hundred experts did not go down. Impressed? Of course, the VW-selected VW route with long flat straight routes, where you can safely roll 70 km / h and fifth gear. Consumption in such conditions is striving for zero.


Such a spoiler would have come to the yard and on the version of GTI

Due to what the consumption has become a funny small? In the economy of the 5 components: aerodynamic kit; braking energy recovery system, thanks to which the battery is charged when braking, not during acceleration; Low tires with rolling resistance; Start / stop system; System of prompts of optimal transmissions. Well, naturally, the motors. POLO has a three-cylinder diesel engine with a volume of 1.2 liters and with a capacity of 75 liters. p., and on his senior comrades four-cylinder turbodiesel 1.6 l with a capacity of 105 liters. with. Honestly, for Passat the motor is weak, but also Golf, and Polo seemed quite energetic. Of course, there are no such instantaneous responses as I would like, and the moment below is frankly enough, but the engine character is almost gasoline: the moment is smoothly smeared along the entire length of the tachometer scale, and the motor itself is with pleasure spinning. You can fade! Yes, and the appearance of all three cars is not at all peaceful: for me, so it's not Blue, but hotmotion. Sportsiness is obvious.


Passat and Golf lattice remained unchanged, but on the POLO it grinds it to the waterproof

But the main source of economy itself is the driver. Stroger the gas pedal, and do not tram it, go down with the slide rolling and turn off the air conditioner. I do not like? Yes, I myself am delighted, honestly. Or maybe her, this environmental friendliness? Gas in the floor, condo to full! On the unlimited autobahn, the polik acted up to 175 km / h and flew in this mode not one tens of kilometers. Outcome: 4.5 l / 100 km. All the same is negligible. So the brigade of the color of the sea wave is friendly nature and in extreme mode.


Inside nothing gives out the economical nature of the model. Only numbers on the onboard computer display

But not everything is so great. Environmental removing continues to shrink around the neck of world manufacturers. All Bluemoton series machines are conforming to EURO 5 standards, but to drive emissions into strict EURO 6 standards with existing technologies can be only due to urea or adblue, as it is politically corrected in the West. And it freezes at a temperature of 11.5 s, it stands in Russia 5070 rubles per liter, and its consumption is 6% of the flow of diesel fuel. And without urea, the motor corresponds to only the norms of Euro 0. On my question, how to be in Russia, the engineers of VW only divided the hands of them so sadly smiled at them not. So we seem to have to still breathe Garoy Kamaz and Vazov. And in California, by the way, Passat Bluetdi is already sold with a urea neutralizer



 

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