2017 Kia Optima Hybrid

2017 Kia Optima Hybrid

2017 Kia Optima Hybrid Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the 2017 Kia Optima Hybrid (HEV) on the 2016 Chicago Auto Show. The Optima HEV enjoys the equal complete redecorate - interior and out - as the conventional gas-powered version, the all-new fourth-era Optima sedan, bringing with it a new hybrid powertrain that goals a ten percent development in gas financial system over the outgoing version. The improved HEV blends modern styling and a top rate riding revel in with a fair more excessive cognizance on performance and is being added underneath the Kia Motors EcoDynamics environmentally pleasant sub-emblem.

"Kia is pursuing a formidable initiative to boom fuel performance by way of 25 percentage throughout our whole version line-up by using 2020, and new models just like the Optima HEV and PHEV can be essential to realizing that imaginative and prescient," said Orth Hedrick, vice president, product planning, KMA. "The brand's dedication to sustainability, coupled with our records of delivering premium facilities and cost, has by no means been greater evident than in these all-new hybrid automobiles, which might be world-class examples of green engineering, advanced era and design."

Enhanced Hybrid Performance

Targeting a 10 percentage increase in gas financial system, the Optima Hybrid replaces the preceding technology's 2.4-liter engine with an green and compact 2.Zero-liter GDI four cylinder - estimated at 154 horsepower - coupled with a hybrid starter generator and tied to an upgraded, easy-moving six-pace transmission. A 38 kW electric motor and seize replaces the traditional torque converter to provide strong off-the-line acceleration and electricity help to the engine while essential. Energy float is fast and seamless among EV mode and hybrid mode. Total combined output for the Optima Hybrid is estimated at a sturdy 193 horsepower at 6,000 rpm. Also adding to the equation is a brand new electric water pump and a new electric oil pump, which assist improve general gas financial system.

Giving lifestyles to the electrical motor is a extra compact, lightweight, excessive-density lithium-polymer battery % with a 13-percent boom in capacity to 1.62 kWh. With improved packaging, this stronger energy source now fits well underneath the trunk floor without encroaching into shipment space. The revised battery configuration effects in a larger, greater practical load area and permits the mixing of 60/forty break up-folding rear seats.

All-new Eco-DAS (Driver Assistance System) functions Kia's first application of Coasting Guide. This function ambitions at maximizing fuel economic system by way of essentially coaching the driving force on when to coast and brake via an icon within the Instrument Panel that blinks for 4-seconds and sounds a one-time audible alert.

The Optima Hybrid capabilities a uniquely engineered frame that mixes various excessive-tensile electricity steel alloys, creating a stiffer, greater long lasting chassis with more than 50 percent Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) construction. In addition, a full-size increase in warm-stamped components and greater use of structural adhesive improves NVH and contributes to structural stress. This new frame shape enables offer crash protection and higher riding dynamics and is the inspiration for a quieter journey.

Aerodynamic Form and Function

Although the brand new Hybrid boasts the equal formidable styling because the redesigned 2016 Optima, it gives special design capabilities and outside factors that differentiate it from the gas-powered fashions in the Optima variety, while also achieving a coefficient of drag that is the various lowest inside the phase at 0.24 Cd. Featuring an active grille, which mechanically opens and closes at excessive and coffee speeds, the Hybrid is able to improve aerodynamics whilst optimizing engine bay cooling. Numerous other styling variations include a version-particular front air curtain, a beveled rear bumper, a rear diffuser designed to streamline airflow through shrouding the exhaust tip, and an aerodynamic alloy-wheel design. These are complemented through cutting-edge LED lighting, satin finish accent trim and unique 'EcoHybrid' badging.

Intelligent Technology

The new Optima Hybrid makes wise use of generation to deliver a number of comprehensive driver assistance structures and convenience capabilities. The HEV now gives Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), which, below suitable situations, will convey the car to a whole forestall to doubtlessly avoid a collision or reduce harm. Other key driver help structures encompass Blind Spot Detection (BSD), Advanced Smart Cruise Control (ASCC), Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) and Front Collision Warning System (FCWS).

To make life on the road simpler and extra exciting, the Optima Hybrid brings comfort offerings which includes the Hands-unfastened Trunk Open characteristic with Smart Key, a Wireless Phone Charger and Surround View Monitoring (SVM) to resource parking maneuvers.

Kia's present day connectivity machine with cellphone-projected navigation, UVO3, comes preferred with UVO telematics, and is more desirable with Android Auto™ and Apple CarPlay®, which permit drivers to get entry to a suite of middle capabilities from their smartphones. There's also an upgraded AVN 4.Zero Navigation system combined with the Harman/Kardon QuantumLogic™ Premium Surround Sound Audio System, which includes 10 speakers, Clari-Fi™ generation and a 630-watt virtual amplifier. Clari-Fi is a patented tune restoration technology that rebuilds audio signals that are misplaced in the digital compression manner.