It is not so that Nissan is bad in terms of electromobility. The first generation of the compact Stromer Leaf debuted 2012, and from April, the Japanese orders for the purely electric Crossover Ariya accept.
What you have to moderate, customer wishes are after a plug-in hybrids. However, that does not mean that Nissan's bestseller Qashqai remains denies the possibility of electrical progress. The thing works only differently: E-Power is called a technology whose components are a combustion and an electric motor, as well as a drive battery and an inverter. The burner - a 1.5-L three-cylinder - is active as a generator and operates an on-board power generation. This current flows - depending on the driving situation - either via the inverter (inverter) to the drive battery or directly to the electric motor. He - and only he then drives the wheels. All the bottom line is always electric driving.
No Range Extender
Nissan Qashqai E-Power: Also visually indicates. manufacturer
If one knows, the one or the other now says and remember the past Opel Ampera, which - as well as the BMW i3 Rex used an internal combustion engine as a range extender, as a range extender. Similarly, the Mazda MX-30 R-Ev. However, there are crucial differences between Range Extender and E-Power. The first: While the "Range" engages only when the drive battery of the juice is assumed, the burner in the Qashqai E-Power already engages in stronger acceleration operations and at all whenever faster than about 55 km / h is driven. Above all, however, the small e-power battery (1.95 kWh) does not recharge externally on the socket. Thus, the technology also differentiates from that of a plug-in hybrid.
Performance increased
In Japan, Nissan E-Power has been offering since 2017. Europe but is another terrain, here the motorists and motorists would have higher expectations, says product planner Lucile Laporte. And so the power of the electricity-producing three-cylinder was raised to 115 kW / 156 hp, the electric motor - to which it arrives drive technology only - makes 140 kW / 190 hp and a torque of 300 newton meters.
Always electric: The drive power is only on the E motor. He makes 140 kW / 190 hp. manufacturer
In addition to the purely electric driving feeling, a consumption benefit should also be set, 5.3 l / 100 km promises the standard and 119 g / km of CO2 emissions. For comparison: At the 200 kilogram of lighter mildhybrid-qashqai, the values amount to 6.3 l / 100 km and 140 g / km.
Electrical driving
And how does it come over in practice? Surprisingly good. As a stage for the pre-production vehicles, Nissan has simulated on the Circuito del Jarama - from 1969 to 1981 Formula 1 racetrack - various city, mountain and highway scenarios. The first impression: The e-power Qashqai accelerates as attachment, linear and swiftly, as one knows this from a "real" electric car. A variable compaction fits the compression resistant to the respective power requirement. The doing of the three-cylinder takes place acoustically completely unobtrusive; Because speed and speed develop analogously upwards, drivers or driver spares from that alike confusing and ugly phenomenon, after which the engine already brings up before the pace has increased.
E instead of D: The Qashqai E-Power also turns to former diesel drivers. manufacturer
About an EV button we send the three-cylinder into the break, the Qashqai then processes no fuel and runs only with electricity, but at most about a distance of about three kilometers and up to a speed of - we mentioned it - around 55 km / h possible. For the recuperation, either the speed "B" of the automatic or the extra-industrial "e-pedal" mode is responsible, in the latter case, the vehicle can be moved at least in city traffic almost without the use of the brake pedal.
Priced in the advantage
In summer, the Qashqai E-Power is on the market, the end of the year is a corresponding version of the larger SUVS X-Trail. That both - in the absence of external charging option - must do without environmental bonus and E-license plates, Nissan does not consider as a sales impact. Because the controversial promotion of plug-in hybrids is likely to be an end to an end shortly or long. At the latest then the e-power is the advantage over the expensive PHEVs priced. What exactly he should cost, is not yet communicated. "We turn to earlier diesel drivers," says Nissan spokesman Alexander Sellei. From this, a surcharge of about 2000 euros compared to the mildhybrid-qashqai can be derived, which then - minded the supplied automatic - could run out of about 36,700 euros.
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Nissan Qashqai E-Power shortly: When he comes: orderable from April 2022, deliveries from summer Who he takes into sight: in terms of technology no immediate competitor What drives him: Electric motor with 140 kW / 190 hp What he costs: not yet known
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