Peugeot and Total introduce the 208 Hybrid FE

Continuing years of commitment to improving vehicle energy performance, Peugeot and Total are combining their capacity for innovation once more in a breakthrough project: the 208 HYbrid FE.
The aim is to design a vehicle combining real driving pleasure and low emissions of CO2. This technological demonstrator will benefit from Peugeot and Total’s latest innovations in aerodynamics, weight saving and drivetrains.
The performance of this technological demonstrator will be achieved without the use of a top-up energy source and taking as its base an already very efficient production vehicle. This means halving the emissions of the most economical of the petrol engines, while obtaining acceleration worthy of a small sports car.
This hybrid vehicle uses a non-plug-in electric battery with a petrol engine to create only 49g/km of carbon monoxide. In addition, it takes only eight seconds for the car to accelerate from 0 to 100km/h.
The vehicle is based closely on the 208 1.0 VTi vehicle. The hybrid version is expected to have a more aerodynamic body, weigh about 440 pounds less, with a three-cylinder engine.
The 208 HYbrid FE is a major development in the partnership between Peugeot and Total. The two companies have been working together since 1995 to lower CO2 emissions and fuel usage in vehicles.
The Total group and several of its entities (Lubricants, Fuels, Hutchinson, CCP Composites, Total Global Polymers) are actively involved alongside Peugeot in numerous R&D projects permitting the production of more environmentally-friendly vehicles. Total provides Peugeot and its networks worldwide with FE (Fuel Economy) lubricants designed to reduce vehicle consumption by reducing friction in the engine. So, over 10 years, Total lubricants have contributed to a 5% reduction in emissions of CO2 on PSA engines.
In France, close to 250 researchers are working on developing future automobile fuels and lubricants.
In 2011, Peugeot and Total renewed their collaborative research and exclusive recommendation agreement. Today, the two companies are involved in a project to offer future generations with mobility that combines energy efficiency (Fuel Economy) and driving pleasure (Fun & Emotion). (February 20, 2013)