Flywheel Hybrid Technology

Torotrak is a UK-based company that's developing a technology called a flywheel hybrid. Instead of using a big, heavy battery to store energy, the Torotrak system uses a spinning flywheel. It's simple and lightweight compared to traditional electric hybrids, and it's even going to be used in Formula One race cars. There's no word yet if any automakers are signing up, but if it starts winning races you can bet they'll be all over it.

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[ArashixArashi]

This is very informative but... 1:55 what is wrong with this man!

[LulJam]

i think he wanted the guy to put into english for his audience that didn't graduate highschool not for himself

[gogetitlady]

i dont get it

[AndreiMikhailovich]

@matthias2986 I'll surprise you this car was made in 1950 in the Soviet Union, Soviet scientists and worked until 1960, then in 1963 a new flywheel super flywheel. я вас удивлю такая машина была сделана в 1950 году в советском союзе, советскими учеными и работала до 1960 года, потом в 1963 на новом маховике, супер маховике.

[matthias2986]

point is i came up with more or less the same idea when i was 13 years old lol.. i was very happy to see somebody with the resources to create such a system brought my idea into reality. =D

[matthias2986]

i came up with this idea when i was in middle school... no im serious i even wrote about my idea in science class paper back in 2001 (not sure when this was actually invented), none of my friends fully understood what i was talking about. i remember showing it to physics teacher later on in life and he was very interested by the idea. my concept of course was more crude, basically it would "downshift" using a CVT into a flywheel that would be used in stop and go traffic to add to fuel economy...

[RW1LD]

I see this working in racing, not normal use

[MonogrammedMarxist]

This is shady. This guy (both of them actually) should be selling Sham-Wows.

[kokopelli314]

OK, 70% efficient, but I want to see this 80hp flywheel.

[ufoengines]

Really Cool!

[wtfzweb]

frikken smart

[cyberpine]

Thanks. Brake recovery without batteries! So.. When?