One of the most exciting races of the year will be taking place this weekend, the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Circuit de la Sarthe near the French town of Le Mans. While the race is typically ...

Design a highly efficient, mobile electric flywheel capable of high-density energy storage that can supplement the power of internal combustion engines in hybrid electric vehicles during acceleration ...

When it comes to performance, one option you might want to consider for your car is a lightened flywheel. By using a lightened flywheel, the energy that is normally used to turn your stock flywheel ...

As a means to store energy, power cars, or even ensure geopolitical survival, batteries suddenly rule our planet. Within the past two decades, however, racing minds briefly saw one of humankind’s ...

Since Ford sold Jaguar Land Rover to Indian carmaker Tata in TK, the luxury maker has stepped out a bit. Their green efforts have taken down several interesting technology paths that seem unlikely had ...

The flywheel plays a major role in how a car reacts, and choosing the wrong one for your application can make the car difficult to drive, or a sloth under acceleration. Often, a problem can be solved ...

While Toyota owners continue to be worried about “unintended acceleration” issues associated with faulty gas pedals, owners of other makes are eagerly testing the limits of their vehicles’ intended ...

When you pay good money for horse-power, you want that power to go to the wheels as planned. Cars with manual transmission have a virtual Twilight Zone of variables, so to speak, that can rob you of ...

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