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Why now? Flywheels have been around for a hundred years... meanwhile, batteries have improved a lot. There have been long articles about flywheels every now an
by Gravityloss 12y ago
Why now? Flywheels have been around for a hundred years... meanwhile, batteries have improved a lot.
There have been long articles about flywheels every now and then, yet you never see them in buses.
http://discovermagazine.com/1996/aug/reinventingthewh842 http://discovermagazine.com/1996/aug/reinventingthewh842
- InclinedPlane 12y agoFormula 1 was changed recently to encourage development of high efficiency automotive technology. That change has apparently already started to pay off.
- Gravityloss 12y agoYes, that's possible. But no technical reasons are presented on why it should happen now - compared to all the false prognoses in the last fifty years or so.
- InclinedPlane 12y agoTechnical problems tend to fall rather more rapidly when billions of dollars in R&D spending is put into play. Just the top 10 Formula 1 teams spend something like $4 billion annually, and now a significant amount of that is being funneled toward research on highly efficient vehicles.
- Guvante 12y agoMy naive assumption would be that implementing flywheels in high performance situations without negatively impacting the engine is difficult. At least that would be my assumption given the trend of hybrid vehicles and lack of comparable change in larger ones. F1 uses much stronger engines so maybe the tech is more directly usable.