Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Military
It used to be that we couldn’t even find a picture of the U.S. Army’s Clandestine Extended Range Vehicle (CERV), but times have changed.
At the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, the Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) displayed the CERV, which uses a diesel-hybrid “Q-Force” powertrain from Quantum that Quantum says, “saves taxpayer dollars and – most importantly – saves Soldiers’ lives.”
With a top speed of 80 miles per hour and a “run-silent” range of eight miles (we assume this means all-electric range), the CERV prototype can produce over 5,000 pound-feet of torque and go up hills with up to 60-percent grades. It does all this while using 25 percent less fuel, which is critical when you have to pay up to $400 a gallon to use the stuff in theater.
The Army says that today’s soldier uses an average of 22 gallons of gasoline a day. In World War II, it was one gallon a day.
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U.S. Army’s CERV puts a machine gun on a “green” military vehicle originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:01:00 EST.