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Are they abandoning all forms of endurance racing? Batteries have made incredible advances in the last decade...likely to the tipping point for consumer cars an
by darksaints 7y ago
Are they abandoning all forms of endurance racing? Batteries have made incredible advances in the last decade...likely to the tipping point for consumer cars and even some forms of racing. But they don't have the ability to compete on range, and due to physics limitations, likely never will.
Fuel cells are likely going to fill that gap in commercial and industrial markets, but I can't see them taking over in racing. You can either get high power density PEMs running on complex systems to support pure hydrogen fuel requirements, or low power density SOFCs running on simple hydrocarbon fuels. Neither is going to work well for racing.
- ummonk 7y agoWhat about hydrogen ICE? Very green on the consumption side and probably can have decent power density. (Though hydrogen obviously requires somewhat larger fuel tanks than hydrocarbon for the same energy).