Long-Distance Champion: The New Grandland Plug-in Hybrid

Absolutely charged and refuelled: New top-of-the-line SUV covers 1,115 kilometres
‘Electro’ SUV: Within the take a look at, the GS trim plug-in hybrid covers 380 kilometres domestically emissions-free with out recharging due to recuperation
Perfect for fleets and people: Drivetrain good for anybody who commutes absolutely electrically and needs to cowl lengthy distances in a very resource-efficient means

Mixed values for Opel Grandland Plug-in Hybrid based on WLTP1: weighted vitality consumption 21.9-23.4 kWh electrical energy/100 km plus 0.8-0.9 l petrol/100 km; CO2 emissions 19-21 g/km; CO2 class B. With discharged battery: gasoline consumption 6.8-7.0 l/100 km; CO2 class F.

Rüsselsheim. The brand new Opel Grandland impresses with its engaging styling, groundbreaking applied sciences, intelligent options, numerous area and utterly electrified vary of drivetrains. The ‘Golden Steering Wheel 2024’2 winner is out there because the absolutely electrical Grandland Electrical, the Grandland Hybrid with 48-volt expertise and the highly effective Grandland Plug-in Hybrid. The staff round Grandland chief engineer Dirk Kaminski has now put the intelligent plug-in hybrid drive idea to the take a look at – with astonishing outcomes that may impress firm automobile and long-distance drivers.

“The WLTP values3 are clear: In response to the official take a look at cycle, our new Grandland Plug-in Hybrid presents a mixed vary of as much as 897 kilometres, of which as much as 87 kilometres are purely electrical,” stated Dirk Kaminski. “However we thought to ourselves: Let’s see what the automobile can actually do. Our new top-of-the-range SUV will certainly break the 1,000-kilometre mark with a full tank and a full cost. In any case, the Grandland is ‘made in Germany’ via and thru and rolls off the meeting line within the ultra-modern Eisenach manufacturing facility. So we put it to the take a look at – beneath circumstances which can be worse than within the official take a look at cycle.”

From full to empty: 1,115 kilometres coated beneath adversarial circumstances

Whereas the WLTP values are decided at temperatures of round 23 levels Celsius, the brand new Grandland Plug-in Hybrid set off on a windy and wet January morning at a contemporary 11 levels Celsius. And – acceptable for the season – on 19-inch winter tyres as an alternative of summer season tyres with decrease rolling resistance and within the fully-equipped GS trim. The one requirement was: “The SUV has a full tank and the 17.9 kWh battery is absolutely charged. Now we drive till the gasoline tank and battery are empty.”

The plug-in hybrid accomplished typical commuter routes from the Rhine-Foremost space round Rüsselsheim and Frankfurt to the Rhine-Neckar space and again once more. The routes included motorway stretches with free-flowing visitors, with stop-and-go visitors and rush-hour visitors, in addition to nation roads and metropolis visitors together with visitors mild stops – a real-life take a look at that displays the true on a regular basis necessities of many firm automobile drivers.

The end result or the gap that the Grandland Plug-in Hybrid, which delivers 143 kW (195 hp) system output and 350 Newton meters of most torque, achieved with only one tank filling and battery cost, exceeded the expectations of the Opel staff: at a median pace of 80 km/h and a extremely environment friendly total common consumption of 4.6 litres of gasoline per 100 kilometres, the SUV coated a complete of 1,115 kilometres in 4 phases (interrupted by breaks to fulfill the authorized necessities to stick to driving instances). Of this, the plug-in hybrid drove a bit of greater than a 3rd of the full distance, or extra exactly 380 kilometres, purely battery-electric and due to this fact domestically emissions-free.

“The truth that the Grandland achieves such excellent values beneath these circumstances – on the finish of the take a look at temperatures had dropped to simply 4 levels Celsius – has as soon as once more confirmed that we’ve created a automobile that’s groundbreaking in each respect with a drive idea that’s utterly appropriate for on a regular basis use. The extremely environment friendly combustion engine and the electrical motor work in good concord,” stated Kaminski. “Greater than that: each time you decelerate, the powertrain switches to electrical operation. That is doable as a result of the recuperated vitality is used to energy the automobile electrically that means that lengthy distances may be coated at low and medium speeds with no native emissions.”

‘Greenovation’ à la Opel: resource-saving SUV and drive idea

The brand new Opel Grandland Plug-in Hybrid due to this fact shines as the perfect alternative for absolutely electrical commuter routes in addition to for long-distance firm automobile and leisure drivers who need to be significantly resource-efficient and depart vary anxiousness behind. Not solely using recycled supplies and the absence of chrome present what Opel means by ‘Greenovation’ and sustainability within the new top-of-the-line SUV. That is additionally impressively demonstrated by the outcomes of the take a look at.

Quite a few different qualities of the utterly new Grandland make day by day enterprise journeys in addition to lengthy journeys much more nice: the ergonomic seats licensed by Aktion Gesunder Rücken e.V. (AGR) guarantee relaxed driving pleasure. The patented Intelli-Seat ergonomic function is customary on all entrance seats. And with applied sciences such because the glare-free Intelli-Lux HD mild, the Intelli-HUD head-up show or the illuminated, translucent Pixel Field, Grandland drivers are completely outfitted.

On the finish of the take a look at, one remaining query stays: What distance would the brand new Grandland Plug-in Hybrid be capable of cowl with a full tank and full battery beneath preferrred take a look at circumstances –

for instance, in early summer season? “The insights that we as a staff have gained from the 1,115 kilometres we’ve now pushed is: Underneath optimum circumstances, much more would definitely be doable,” stated Kaminski.

The brand new Opel Grandland Plug-in Hybrid with 143 kW (195 hp) system output, 350 Nm of most torque and a prime pace of 220 km/h may be ordered from costs beginning at €40,150 (RRP together with VAT in Germany).

(1) A car’s values not solely rely upon the car’s environment friendly use of gasoline, however are additionally influenced by driving behaviour and different non-technical elements.

(2) Auto Bild Version 46/2024 and BILD am Sonntag Version 45/2024, Class ‘Finest Automobile Underneath € 50,000’.

(3) Vary decided based on WLTP take a look at process methodology (R (EC) No. 715/2007, R (EU) No. 2017/1151). The precise vary can differ beneath on a regular basis circumstances and relies on numerous elements, particularly on private driving fashion, route traits, exterior temperature, use of heating and air con and thermal preconditioning.

Contact:

Colin Yong
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colin.yong@opel-vauxhall.com

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