Volkswagen Golf TDI Hybrid Concept Car

Volkswagen has make announcement that the premiere of the Volkswagen Golf TDI Hybrid concept will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show.

Powered by a diesel engine, an electric motor and a 7-speed DSG gearbox, the Volkswagen Golf TDI Hybrid concept only needs 3.4 liters of fuel to go for 100 km.

The Volkswagen Golf TDI Hybrid concept car is also designed to run on electricity only.

Press Release

With its Golf TDI Hybrid, Volkswagen demonstrates the kind of potential inherent in the combination of high-tech diesel engine, electric motor and 7-speed DSG technology. Exhibited for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show, the concept car consumes no more than 3.4 liters of diesel fuel per 100 kilometers. This powerful full-hybrid Golf TDI Hybrid can be operated either in internal-combustion mode only or in a combination mode of powerful yet thrifty TDI and electric motor. The car is also designed to run on emissions-free electric power only. Power transmission to the front axle is managed by 7-speed DSG technology. In city traffic, the vehicles automatic stop-start system will even automatically switch off diesel operations.

Golf TDI Hybrid

Volkswagen engineers rose to the challenge of creating a viable, highly-efficient family vehicle capable of emitting less than 90 g/km of CO2 by creating the Golf TDI Hybrid concept, a car which combines an advanced 1.2-litre 75 PS diesel engine with an electric motor and the very latest generation of seven-speed DSG gearbox. It is capable of achieving 83 mpg on the combined cycle and emits just 89 g/km of CO2 while around town the vehicle reverts to purely electric mode to be emission-free.