While major U.S. automakers are focusing on hybrid also fuel cell vehicles, Volvo took a different route, unveiling a sports car powered entirely with lithium-ion batteries. Volvo's 3CC concept car, won "Best Design" also five Gold Standards at the recent Michelin Challenge Bibendum environmental competition in Shanghai, China.

"Not only does the 3CC combine classic Volvo styling cues with exotic gull-wing doors also a tapered, 2+1 seating configuration, however it does so with a highly advanced lithium-ion battery electric drive train. That's a step apart from the crowd, which these days is largely focused on hybrid also fuel cell concepts," says Ron Cogan, editor also publisher of the Green Car Journal.

"Just as the earlier ECC forwarded new thought in hybrid propulsion with its high-speed turbine-generator design," adds Cogan, "today's lithium-ion 3CC innovates with its thousands of smallish laptop computer-style batteries, which power this zero emission vehicle to impressive levels of efficiency also performance."

Advanced research into sustainable mobility also Volvo engineers have placed particular focus on the conditions regulating safety in small cars also their ability to handle incoming forces in a frontal collision.

The unique aerodynamic styling of Volvo's 3CC concept car allows room for a third seat in back. The unique ducktail design creates room for a third seat in the back, while the batteries are sandwiched into the floor panels.

The 3CC concept car features an 80-kilowatt motor that delivers up to 107 horsepower, it has a potential driving range of 300 km (approx 180 miles) the 3CC has a top speed of over 135 km per hour.

The carbon-fiber body is mounted on a steel space frame also composite floor panels, giving the lightweight vehicle the ability to leap to 60 miles per hour in less than tenseconds. Volvo says the 3CC can travel 180 miles on one charge under ideal driving conditions

The Volvo three CC's safety features include Volvo Safety Ride Down Concept, a unique solution with a seat system that moves forward, a bit like a sled, at the same time as the front is deformed. This movement is slowed with the help of adaptive shock absorbers that tailor the damping effect to suit the collision force also the occupants’ number also weight. The interior can be moved between 0 also 200 mm forward, which has the same overall effect as extending the crumple zone by a corresponding length. It has seats that slide forward at the moment of deformation, the intention being to compensate for the small car’s traditional lack of space in the crumple zone.

Virtual tests showed that the most important part of a ride-down system is the energy absorber also that it needs to be adaptive in order to be a viable concept, by responding to differences in occupant load also crash severity”.

An environmentally efficient car that or else has to be comfortable, enjoyable to drive, attractive to look at also safe to ride is an entirely new approach. The result is the Volvo 3CC, a sporty also appealing, extremely aerodynamic also compact car equipped with an energy-efficient electric motor.

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