PSA puts weight behind hybrids

With their race and rally expertise, company leaders such as Christian Chehab, General Manager of Transmissions and Hybrid Projects, understand the importance of developing technologies to reach the environmental podium.

Christian Chehab's summary of PSA Peugeot Citroën's overarching technology priority is straightforward: “Our overall engineering philosophy is now everything that touches upon fuel efficiency-that's mainly powertrain, materials in body structures, and aerodynamics.”

It means that Chehab, General Manager of Transmissions and Hybrid Projects at PSA, is a very busy man. Although focused particularly on powertrain, he takes a strategic view of all aspects of reducing the carbon footprint of Peugeot and Citroën vehicles, including the auto industry's enduring challenge of weight reduction.