As many of you may already know, Volkswagen’s BlueMotion engine technoilogy has been around in Europe for more than a few years now. BlueMotion vehicles are more fuel-efficienct and produce significantly less CO2 emissions than their traditional counterparts. Till recently,Volkswagen has offered its BlueMotion technology only in diesel-powered cars, which has both its advantages and disadvantages. While being more fuel efficient, and less emissions when it comes to CO2, BlueMotion diesel engines often cost more to fuel (compared to gasoline and depending in what part of the world you’re in) and spew more airborne particulates than gasoline which decreases air quality.
It was announced back in May 2009 that Volkswagen would be equipping a European version of the Passat with BlueMotion, but it turns out its new 2010 EOS 1.4 TSI is out the gate first. From autobloggreen.com:
Volkswagen has launched its first gasoline-powered Bluemotion model in the UK with the Eos 1.4-liter TSI. Bluemotion is VW’s badging for its line of low emissions technologies and, until now, has always been applied to diesel models. Going forward, Bluemotion will represent a range of technologies to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. The Eos Bluemotion will reportedly be powered by a 120 horsepower version of the 1.4-liter TSI (gasoline, turbocharged, direct injection) along with a six-speed manual gearbox.
The Eos gets automatic start-stop, hill-holding, an upshift indicator in the instrument cluster and brake energy regeneration. On the EU combined cycle, this reportedly drops CO2 emissions from 152 g/km to 144 g/km and yields mileage of 38 mpg (U.S.).
The Good: A much more fuel-efficient/reduced CO2 emissions gasoline powered car for the U.K.
The Bad: Still gasoline powered. Mileage is better than a comparable ‘non-BlueMotion’ model, but still not mind blowing. Available only in the U.K. where gasoline is extremely expensive.
The Bottom-Line: Though it continues to improve on the tried and true combustion engine, Volkswagen continues to resist widespread adoption/implementation of hybrid/EV/PHEV technology that would allow it to go well beyond the mpg range of most of its cars in its fleet currently.
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