fuck that looks so damn good, and surprisingly close to the original rendering
This is incredible more so than the way it looks :tup:
nside that ominous nuclear-reactor dome resides a carbon-fiber flywheel, which revolves inside a stator. Because the flywheel’s in a vacuum (no drag) and been loaded with magnetic material, it acts just like a electric motor/generator. When the current generated during braking reaches the flywheel, it increases the flywheel’s rotation speed from an idle state of around 20,000 rpm up to a maximum of 36,000 rpm, in the process storing electrical energy as kinetic energy.
The current generated from the flywheel powers those front-wheel motor/generators for an eight-second boost of 150kW (201 hp). The system can also initiate torque vectoring, distributing torque to each of the front wheels as needed to enhance traction.
thats what hybrids should be like
is that reactor thing theory or a work in practice?
It works right now :tup:
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That is most sick.
I think flywheel stored energy is going to be big news this year.
I was just reading this:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/efficiency/4337758?click=main_sr
And while searching for that to post came across PM explaining how the Porsche system works.
When this thing hits 88mph you’re gonna see some serious shit.
Meh, not a Mercedes.
hah. well played.
This system has been used and tested and banned in F1 over the last few years. I’m surprised to see this in use in a passenger car but maybe this doesn’t really count. Pretty cool technology but I think it’s going to be something like laser disc. Something similar but much more efficient will probably follow this very soon.
shot-gun
awesome, f1 technology at work.
haha “The 36,000 rpm flywheel sits next to the driver of the 918 RSR”
It was not banned in F1. The teams just agreed they did not want to use it for a season, it’s back as of this coming season (which starts in 60 or so days). Porsche also used this same setup, which was developed by Williams, in their GT3RSR Hybrid which has been running the VLN 24 hour as well as Petit LeMans last year.
It’s not a flywheel in the traditional sense that it’s going to somehow disconnect and slice though the driver like a buzz saw. But maybe it could explode;
I stand corrected.
887 HP, 85 to 94 MPG
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Wasn’t this car supposed to be the underdog compared to the P1 and the LaFerrari?
Looks like Mclaren and Ferrari have some serious work cut out for them… Wow
this looks night and day better than the BMW I8