Citroen unveiled the C4 WRC HyMotion4, a hybrid rally car. Unlike most conventional hybrids that's complicated and costly to put into real production, Citroen and Peugeots Hymotion4 actually does the job efficiently and 'easily'.By allowing the conventional petrol engine to power the front wheels, and an electric motor coupled with 990 lithium ion cells (flexibility in adapting to different power needs) powering the rear wheels, this application could vary the drives of the car using a computer (or switches by the driver himself).
This way, the car could run entirely on electric power (RWD) or entirely on the combustion engine (FWD) or both (4WD). There's even an additional radiator used for cooling the batteries and the electric motor placed underneath the right side of the floor. Which we find brilliant as not only it serves its functional name as a cooling kit for the extra engine, at the same time it serves as an offset for the driver's weight for better weight distribution, the sucking of cool air at the underbody of the car also reduces air pressure, creating a suction that would keep the car stick to the ground, something from Gordon Murray's "1980s - How to win F1" we'd reckon, but perhaps they should take another from the same author themed "How to get ruled out once you won too much races, using new technologies"
It's such a contradictory approach for me when seeing automakers trying to appear green when in fact they're putting earth's resources to A&P use. However, unlike Honda's pointless F1 car covered in a globe livery, the Citroen C4 WRC Hybrid does actually apply technology resulting in cleaner emissions and burning less fuel, allowing for more distance. Kudos for the effort, but if the new car proved slower than the others, we might then retrieve our 'Kay-You-Dee-Oh'.
