Volvo 3CCC

Description:

It has just been a few years since hybrid cars were introduced. These cars are planning to reduce the fuel emissions of a car by constraining its fuel usage. Such cars run on electric current provided by rechargeable batteries when they run at lower speeds. The electric power supplied to the electric motors of these car easily permit the user to complete their day to day neighborhood chores without using a drop of gasoline. However these cars still require gasoline when they are shooting through the highway, thus polluting the earth’s atmosphere with their CO2 emissions. Basically speaking these cars have managed to cut down the usage of natural fuels to a great extent, but not completely.

On the other hand there are cars that run on biofuel and do not pollute the atmosphere of the earth. The problem of driving such cars is the lack of sufficient number of biofuel outlets. This will be increased in the future and then there will be adequate supply of biofuel. Car manufacturers are quite smart and a few of them have married together both these technologies and have taken the best of them and put them in a single fuel saving, environment friendly package. These cars will do away totally with conventional fuels. The Volvo 3CC concept car is such a vehicle. Having a seating capacity of 3 persons, this vehicle can accommodate electric, hybrid, bio-fuel and traditional gasoline too.

This is the car of the future that can also run in present times. According to the director of Volvo Cars of North America, this car should be available within a decade. This car will derive its electric power using 3000 lithium ion cells, the same as those that are used in laptop computers, providing the car with 105 horsepower. The current generations of hybrid cars are facing problems with the traditional lead acid cells and Ni-MH (nickel metal hydride) cells. The costs of lithium ion cells are expected to fall down to 30 cents by 2015 from its current price of $3.50 per cell. The coefficient of drag of this car is just 0.26 and this combined with the lightweight (just 2,300 pounds) carbon fiber and steel structure of this car.

These features permit the batteries to accelerate the car from standstill to 60 miles per hour speed under 10 seconds. If this is awesome, just consider the 180 miles per gallon this car will provide, and you will understand why people are waiting eagerly for it. The four-point harness of this car provides additional safety to its occupants. Volvo has reduced the size of this car by 2 inches from the S40 Sedan, with the size of the 3CCC being just 153.5 inches. Even the height of the roofline has been lowered by 4 inches. Volvo has managed a feat by trimming the width of this car by 4 inches with the widest point of the 3CCC being just 64 inches. This car can accommodate 2 adults in the front and 2 kids in its rear single seat, making it an ideal car for a small family.