Exhibition Tokyo Motor Show outline announcement of Fuji Heavy Industries of concept car of HV

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. announced on the 30th that they would exhibit concept car "Subaru hybrid Zarah concept" of hybrid (HV) of original development to Tokyo Motor Show. A newly developed horizontal opposing direct-injection turbocharged engine was combined with the hybrid system. The fuel cost performance rises by 50% compared with a past turbocharged engine. The mileage a fuel liter becomes about 20 kilometers in a simple calculation.

Opening the horizontally-opposed engine of an excellent direct-injection method in the fuel cost performance to the public is the first. The engine displacement is 2000cc. The hybrid system uses two of the output 10 kilowatts (reception desk) and 20 kilowatts (rear) motors. The lithium-ion battery is installed. When running, a rear motor assists the engine usually. It drives only with the motor when the fuel consumption is large and it is low-speed. The regulating system of the motor and the battery was originally developed.

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The monument is completed in the town in the 28th iron man Kobe of "Full-scale".

"Full-scale" plastron monument "The iron person No.28" that put the wish for the local revitalization was completed in the park in Kobe City Osada Ward that received damage because of the Great Hanshin Earthquake and a huge imposing figure of about 15 meters in height appeared on the 29th.

The iron man of 50 tons in weight is a powerful pose that straddles, and thrusts out the fist of the right hand to previous as for both feet. Work to remove the work stand and the seat etc. of work with which the iron man was covered started, and an ultramarine body appeared gradually on the morning of the same day.

"The iron man No.28" is cartoonist from Kobe City, and Mr. the late Yokoyama brilliance's most important work. NPO (incorporated nonprofit organization)"KOBE iron man PROJECT" made from the owner of retail stores of the same district planned , saying that "It can be vigor by borrowing iron man's power as for the town".