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Originally Posted by Steffen
Yes, that's interesting. Mind you, Toyota reckons the F1 KERS is five years behind the technology they have in the Prius, but I'm not sure those can be easily compared (somewhat different torque and power throughput).
The exhaust gas energy recovery is interesting, too, but don't they already have the turbo for that? Unless of course they inject some ions and run some kind of MHD generator there 
That said, the turbo can only feed the energy back at the time it is extracted, the electric detour allows it to be stored for later.
Cheers
Steffen. |
They said in the article, a turbo can only produce a certain range of boost and still consume less than 100kg of fuel an hour. To combat this a regular turbo has a wastegate, which lets the exhaust gas bypass the turbo to prevent over boosting. In this car they would be using that gas to drive another generator.
