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Next Nissan GT-R to get Williams F1 Hybrid Technology?

Benji Jerew — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:18:15 +0000

Currently, the Nissan GT-R is a 3.8ℓ V6-powered gas-guzzling supercar, rated at 545hp and fun-level 10.1, but it won’t be that way for long, with emissions regulations becoming ever stricter. Instead of dialing the Nissan GT-R fun-level back to 8.2, Nissan engineers have decided to hybridize the car, which will reduce emissions and increase fuel […]

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What Can Kinetic Energy Recovery [KERS] Do for a Volvo S60?

Benji Jerew — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:33 +0000

You might associate the Kinetic Energy Recovery System [KERS] with high-end Formula 1 race cars, but Volvo isn’t leaving it just for the track. In fact, many track-tested technologies find their way into production vehicles, such as dual-overhead camshafts and tire technology. Volvo’s S60 KERS engineering prototype is one way that Volvo is approaching performance […]

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Volvo’s Kinetic Energy Recovery System Tested: 25% Fuel Savings

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:42:44 +0000

Volvo has been working since 2011 to implement this technology in street-legal cars, and it has now been confirmed that the KERS system they will use in future alternative hybrid cars (these have come to have alternatives, too) will provide fuel savings of about 25 percent to owners, while decreasing emissions. High performance motoring like […]

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Gyroscope and KERS, 50 Years Old – Alex Tremulis’ GyroX to be Restored

Benji Jerew — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:39:31 +0000

We may marvel at the two-wheel enclosed motorcycle balanced by twin gyroscopes, as well as by a hybrid electric vehicle’s regenerative braking system which recovers the energy normally wasted during deceleration. While regenerative braking in a hybrid electric vehicle stores the energy electrically, well, chemically. Would you believe the regenerative braking system used in Formula […]

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Audi Unveils R20 Diesel Hybrid Hypercar… Eventually

Benji Jerew — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:36:22 +0000

For much of the last ten years or so, Audi turbodiesel race cars have dominated the World Endurance Championships at the Le Mans. One technology new to the circuit, hybrid technology, or Kinetic Energy Recovery System [KERS], wasn’t necessarily designed for fuel economy. While adding KERS to a 3.7ℓ turbodiesel race car does help to […]

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