Geely has brought out the big guns at the Beijing Motor Show by launching many new vehicles. Among them, there was the FC-E, a hybrid-powered saloon which embeds an interesting technology.
Without a doubt, the Beijing Motor Show is devoted to electric and hybrid vehicles. However, while other motor shows didn’t favourise any technologies, the Chinese motor show put the emphasis on electric solutions. The Geely FC-E is powered by a 92bhp 1.6-litre petrol engine and a smaller electric unit which delivers a power output of 40bhp. The figures are similar to that of the Toyota Prius.
What’s interesting about the Geely mode is the batteries used to store the energy. Instead of the lithium-ion batteries, the Chinese carmaker has embedded lithium-metal-phosphate batteries, more secured and more stable than the lithium-ions. Those batteries had been invented by the university of Texas in 1997 and are currently being developed by A123 Systems in the US.
Geely has dubbed its electric solution EEBS, short for Electronic Equation Balance System.
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