Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4 review - Telegraph
A decade after Toyota and Honda started selling petrol-electric hybrids, European manufacturers keep insisting you're better off with a conventional diesel engine. True, open roads don't show hybrids in their best light, but in urban running you can't beat them.
So why not do a diesel hybrid? Mostly because of cost. Diesel engines are more expensive than petrol units in the Japanese hybrids and when you add the hybrid parts – electric motor, electronics and battery – it's a big burden.
Peugeot thinks it has a solution. Its diesel hybrid system provides some extra advantages which will, Peugeot believes, make it attractive enough for customers to pay the likely £2,000-plus premium. We can't be sure of that figure because the system is only a prototype, being prepared for production launch about a year hence.
Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4 review - Telegraph
So why not do a diesel hybrid? Mostly because of cost. Diesel engines are more expensive than petrol units in the Japanese hybrids and when you add the hybrid parts – electric motor, electronics and battery – it's a big burden.
Peugeot thinks it has a solution. Its diesel hybrid system provides some extra advantages which will, Peugeot believes, make it attractive enough for customers to pay the likely £2,000-plus premium. We can't be sure of that figure because the system is only a prototype, being prepared for production launch about a year hence.
Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4 review - Telegraph
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