BMW 7 Active Hybrid a star vehicle

This software is a difficult thing. Toyota now has 15 years experience writing software and the hybrid drive is not going to their hard-won knowledge.
But changes in the flow of energy between the combustion engine, one or more electric motors, regenerative braking and high voltage batteries mix in a way that is imperceptible, or at least bearable for drivers and passengers, it is much harder than it looks.

Which brings us to the 2011 BMW 7 Active Hybrid, a mild hybrid the company's first hybrid car and the fastest. "The first Toyota Prius in 1997, was a star vehicle, and frankly,it does not
It is still 7-series BMW, of course, meaning that a large, fast, solid and luxurious. It may be just around the world hybrid electric raise and lower the head, for example. And it is certainly fast as your foot on it, with a 0-to-60-km / h takes just 4.7 seconds.

Like all BMW handling is exemplary. And it's a great car that is comfortable to drive fast, just right on the narrow roads and predictable cornering. Also a heads-up display, with sharp writing in different colors, it is perhaps the best we've seen so far.

But if ActiveHybrid 7 hybrid, may be less slippery than many 7-series models. Not at high speeds, while charging the battery at the crossing of the engine is all but unnoticeable. Most of the time, you should look at energy flow display to see if the engine battery and if it is not.

It's annoying, low-speed travel behavior within 7 ActiveHybrid. Within 25 miles per hour, took a regular car is an attempt to wipe until the driver brakes or accelerates.

But the rate picked up to 7 in hybrid kicks in the hotel, instead - and the car begins to slow noticeably, as if driven into the mud to pull him down.