Hyundai/Kia Hybrid engines in the Tuscon/Sportage:
48V Mild Hybrid
Save fuel and reduce emissions with the 0.44kW battery 48V mild hybrid system. It supports the combustion engine with additional torque during acceleration and when starting from a stop reducing load on the engine. The 48V Mild Hybrid system is teamed with the 1.6T Smartstream petrol engine with 150PS or the 180PS 7 speed DCT transmission with 4WD on selected trims.
The 48V mild hybrid is really there just to help emissons with silight benifit in fuel economy. The 0-60 and top speed remain the same as the petrol version and as the same 150bhp that can acheive upto an extra 1.5mpg over the petrol engine only, so no real benifits.
The isg gear box has a drive by wire (fly by wire system), whilst it retains the gearstick it has no cluctch (semi automatic)
Electrifying efficiency HEV 230
The hybrid is powered by the new 1.6-litre T Smartstream petrol engine and a 44.2 kW electric motor, with a 1.49 kWh lithium-ion polymer battery for a combined total output of 230PS.
The HEV 230 is a proper Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle (FHEV), it has fully automatic DCT gearbox, it is by far more fuel effiecent than the 48V mild hybrid and can travel short distances on electrical power only. The 0-60 time is 7 seconds, 2.4 seconds quicker than its petrol nd 48V mild hybrid counter parts, overall a much more pleasing drive. Perhaps most importanyly, the HEV isn’t suffering from blocked PPF (similar to a DPF on a diesel) issues like the petrol and mild hybrid counterparts are, with Hyundai/Kia still trying to find a fix for. There a full thread on this on the Sportage thread and other forums.
At the time I drove noth the Tuscon petrol and 48V mild hybrid (same engine and hybrids in the Sportage as there the same company really) There was no difference in drive apart from the petrol version being fully manual transmission, they drove accelerated the same and I opted for the petrol only as the 48V mild hybrid was about £1,700 more in AP, which at only 1.5mgg extra I’d never recoup the difference over 3yrs and for once the salesman agreed. I wanted the HEV 230 but it wasn’t on the scheme with Hyundaiand the Sportage had not yet come on the scheme at the time I ordered.