[car fanatics]

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Photo credit: Ferrari
April 16, 2012
By: CF staff

Patent applications we’ve uncovered, however, show that Ferrari is planning a far more conventional hybrid system. Here are the differences:

KERS stands for Kinetic Energy Recover System. While most hybrid gas-electric systems in automobiles recover kinetic energy in some way, KERS typically refers to a system that uses the car’s brakes to spool up a flywheel; the flywheel, in turn, briefly holds the energy until the driver wants a short burst of added power. Typically, there’s no battery or transistor. In addition to Ferrari, Porsche and Volvo have experimented with KERS hybrid systems.

[REVolution]

I would love to have that system. Assuming it works properly. F1 teams have been having issues with it not working properly.

[McLovin]

Can't wait to see this system in operation. I wonder if they manage some decent stored energy, or just hybrid fluff marketing.