Two years from now a consortium of world companies led by the Jaguar Land Rover intends to demonstrate a new flywheel hybrid system, and I’m reliably informed it will be on a Jaguar Land Rover vehicle
The flywheel hybrid is not the conventional electric hybrid arrangement seen in current green cars it’s a purely mechanical arrangement that stores up the kinetic energy wasted during braking, and release it to get the wheels accelerating again. A typical hybrid flywheel may be about 250mm diameter by 100mm thick, and turn at a massive 60,000rpm.
Engineering company flybird system has developed such a flywheel energy storage and recovery system to meet next year’s Formula 1 similar technology into a road vehicle, giving potential fuel consumption and therefore emission savings of 20 per cent.
Other involved in the project include transmission specialists Torotrac and xtrac plus good old ford, and it’s all being managed on behalf of leader JLR by prodrive. And the whole project is funded by the Government established Technology Strategy Board.
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