Four months ago, the LH4 from Lightning Hybrids was nothing but a mound of clay, but now the Colorado company has a running prototype and some video of it on the road. It’s brief, but you can tell from the video the Corvette-inspired, hydraulic hybrid is not your typical hybrid. It sounds like a British sports car with a bad muffler, but it doesn’t look too shabby.

Audi’s compact 5-door variation of the 3-door A1 project quattro car hybrid mode the car offers fuel consumption of 72.4 mpg

In hybrid mode the car achieves 0-62mph in 7.9 seconds with a 124mph top speed and miserly fuel consumption of 72.4mpg and CO2 emissions of 92 g/km. The engine delivers 240Nm to the front wheels via S tronic dual-clutch transmission (before the boost offered by the electric motor kicks in) and regenerative braking and an automatic start/stop facility further enhances the Concepts’ efficiency—an overall gain of around 30 percent compared to when it is running on the combustion engine alone according to Audi.

Via: Businessweek