Infiniti to put new kind of hybrid in FX

[trainerKEN]

One of the knocks against hybrids is that they're best around town, but once you get on the highway, it's back to full-time fossil fuels. Nissan is developing its own hybrid tech that it plans to launch in the Infiniti FX, in which the electric component will assist the engine at highway speeds as well, not just around town.

We don't know how close, if at all, it will be to the hybrid system in the Porsche Cayenne -- that (as-yet-untested) one can run the vehicle entirely on electric power at 75 MPH. Nissan's offering is slated to arrive some time in the next decade, presumably in the next generation FX. When it does, that will put at least four different types of major manufacturer hybrids on the roads, making their way through streets also littered with clean diesels. When we get that kind of concentration, the shakeout will really begin to decide who'll win the altpower war.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/12/infiniti-to-put-new-kind-of-hybrid-in-fx/#comments

 

[Dr.2K]

Sounds very interesting.

 

[trainerKEN]

though, I would think they do a hybrid with the EX first before the FX...

 

[Dr.2K]

I'm sure it will all trickle on thru the line.

 

[brown_fv]

i cant imagine a car like the FX being a hybrid...whenever i think of hybrid i picture a prius, then a big bad FX next to it...WEAK

 

[gto]

& add a third row too!

 

[da mayor]

& add a third row too!

no 3rd row -- it'll lose it's handling if they extend the chassis too much.

 

[turbocad6]

don't kid yourself, electric can make stupid torque & stupid power, it's just a matter of providing the energy to do it, so of course hybrids now are built to be as unconsuming as possible, think weak & anemic.

eventually there will be monster hybrids out there too, battery technology is the biggest drawback so far. when battery technology catches up, or a better way to produce & store the energy required, the day will come that gasoline cars will be a joke, they may as well have run on coal

ah, maybe not next year though

 

[Psiclne]

i cant imagine a car like the FX being a hybrid...whenever i think of hybrid i picture a prius, then a big bad FX next to it...WEAK

+1 Totally destroys the image of the FX. Offering a Hybrid version will turn all the JOTOS onto the FX

 

[gto]

How loud would my nismo get if I hooked up a couple o batteries to it

 

[JAB1]

Im not sure of what kind of hybrid, etc the lexus 400h is, or how it works, but im pretty sure it has better hp than all the other lexus suv's put out.