While most European car manufacturers are still discussing the pros and cons of a qualified electrified vehicles with and without combustion, has been traded at Kia already. The Kia Forte LPI Hybrid is on the market - at least in Korea. And it will not last for long, then it rolls to us also.
Already in early 2010 are the first models for a large scale project in Europe. Holland, Italy and Germany have already expressed great interest. For the Forte LPI is a mild hybrid, the engine is working exclusively with LPG - and the cost gas in this country now finds a growing acceptance.
When LPI Kia Forte, who shares the technology with the Hyundai Elantra LPI to combine the Koreans one 116-hp four-cylinder with a 20 horsepower electric motor, its energy from a self-developed 180-volt lithium-polymer battery exhausted.....
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