OctoberFest: ePower test drive
October 1, 2011 in Uncategorized
During the Octoberfest people were able to get a demo-drive of the Saab 9-3 ePower cars. The cars were driven by the engineers who developed the cars. This is one such demo drive!
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theSandySaab said on October 1, 2011
Clever, clever, clever – great, easy to use system that looks ready for production to me!!!
Must get onto the road asap!
Jake said on October 1, 2011
Hmmmm… Near the end, the engineer says the next phase is development for the future… Does this mean that we may see a fully-electric 9-3 replacement in the future as well as the hybrid-driveline eXWD model? If so, then that’s superb!
PeterS said on October 2, 2011
Rather handsome dude and clever too in the passenger seat
Wittendorff said on October 2, 2011
This looks like one of the first electric cars, that actually works like an ordinary car, great job.
What is the range of it?
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Juvakka said on October 2, 2011
For the demo-fleet I believe the range will be about 200 km.
theSandySaab said on October 2, 2011
Are there 2 different battery packs? What are the respective capacities?
Will any commercial vehicle retain two differently sized battery packs as well?
mattea said on October 2, 2011
From de presentation I beliv its the absolut first test cars that hade a smaler battery pack and the testfleet will have a bigger one.
theSandySaab said on October 2, 2011
So many things considered in this drivable car, even the battery energy density in -20C remains the same (while range will be less due to seat heaters and warm ventilation)… The energy gauge “Ecometer” is cleverly designed, simple and leaves all the tech hidden. Needle to the right equals acceleration, accelerate hard and get into the the red area due to the heat losses internally in the battery, brake and the motor acts as generator and transfers energy back to the battery, brake harder and you get into the red area as the mechanical brakes activates and reduces the speed by generating heat…
One instrument, one scale, one needle – all the necessary feed back indicated…
Just beautifully simple… beautifully Saab!