C7 Corvette Frame Spotted At GM Battery Lab Fuels Hybridization Rumors
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General Motors may not have hidden everything out of plain sight during a recent tour of its 85,000 square-foot battery lab in Warren, Michigan.
During the standard-issue tour, Car Advice spotted something peculiar: a C7 Corvette‘s frame sitting within the lab. According to the report, no other non-hybrid vehicles were seen in the facility. The body shell was stamped with the correct coding, too, “Y1BC”, which is indeed a C7 Corvette’s bones.
Obviously, this lends itself to the idea of a hybrid Corvette in the future. GM also moved to trademark the “Corvette E-Ray” and “E-Ray” names in 2015, leading to speculation over a hybrid-powered Corvette in the future.
However, most of the hybrid speculation has been saved for the C8 Corvette, which has been pegged as a mid-engine successor to the C7 Corvette. It’s been thought the upcoming 2018 C7 Corvette ZR1 would serve as the swan song for a front-engine, rear-wheel drive Corvette before the icon makes the switch to a mid-engine configuration.
But, maybe the Corvette team has a surprise up its sleeve before the C7 is whisked off. Only time will tell.
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No matter if it is a C7 or 8 nearly all performance cars will have to have some hybrid system to retain their V8 with future CAFE,
The high end cars are not adding these systems to save trees. It is a matter of survival of the models they build.
As long as they can keep the weight down. The best sport cars have very low weight unless all you care for is going in a straight line.
C8 corvette me hybrid system chassis that’s what’s being seen and tested.
Testing a new hybrid system on these c7 chassis for these c8 me corvette?
More I think about these new DOHC V8 engine will not be in these C7 ZR1 corvette it will have a revised sc twin-intercoolers LT4 v8 engine.These C8 corvette me will have, Base:: 500+hp, 500+ Na LT5 DOHC v8 6.2 liter engine, TT LT8 6.2 liter DOHC 800+hp/800+torque, hybrid plug in TT DOHC 3.6 liter V6, E-AWD system 900+hp/900+ torque.