Kia Ray Concept

Kia Ray Concept front angle view

Kia Ray Concept cockpit dashboard view

Kia Ray Concept front side view

Kia Ray Concept interior view

Kia Ray Concept rear side view

Kia Ray Concept rear view

Kia Ray Concept side view

Kia Ray Concept wheel view

To warm as environmentally friendly car wars continue, Kia has to work in secret to his own attack called “ECODYNAMICS.” With a fuel cell vehicle, a gas-powered model and a hybrid, which increased under his belt already, Kia’s fuel efficiency division’s game is a plug-in parallel hybrid called Concept Car “Ray”, the debut opens the 2010 Chicago Auto Show.

The Ray is a four-door, four-seat, plug-in hybrid based on the Kia Forte platform. Under the hood of a Ray Glass 153-hp, 1.4-liter direct injection four-cylinder engine coupled with a continuously variable transmission in combination with 78 kW electric motor is used. Power can be sent to the front wheels from Ray’s gas engine, electric motor or a combination of both. When running only on the energy in the lithium-polymer battery, Kia says the front-Ray drive 50 miles on a single charge can be stored travel.

All in all, says Kia is eye-ray 202 mpg (as opposed to reach slam GM’s claimed 230 mpg city rating for its upcoming Chevrolet Volt) and can travel up to 746 miles before he tanked.

Helping Ray, such high benefits are available to green and eco tricks, such as an intelligent alternator that only charges for deceleration and braking. Other tricks are the extensive use of lightweight composites and recycled materials, hexagonal cells in the all-glass roof, which may additionally reduce embedded lighting or air conditioning for temperature in the interior and drive-by-wire controls. Together with solar panels, the roof is also “cool glass of the heat in the interior of the Sun, supplemented by nano-laminate films to other parts of the body, to maintain reduce heat absorption.

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