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24-hour car race helps automakers design your next hybrid vehicle

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by JimboPalmer, Oct 24, 2013.

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    24-hour car race helps automakers design your next hybrid vehicle | Ars Technica

    Reasonably technical article, even the comments (so far) tend to be technical.
     
    #1 JimboPalmer, Oct 24, 2013
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    Makes for nice reading!

    And this... wow... (for those not wanting to read the whole article, other cars always had engines of about double that capacity or more...)
     
    #2 R-P, Oct 25, 2013
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    Good reading. I remember when racing was all about pushing technology. Now they literally throttle it back and have a bunch of rules in place. Nice to read about racing that gets back to the roots of racing.
     
    #3 GBC_Texas_Prius, Oct 27, 2013
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    one of the reasons the deltawing race first at LeMans is that the rules allowed it to.
    deltawing - Home
     
    #4 JimboPalmer, Oct 27, 2013
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    ACO's efficiency focus isn't a recent innovation. Going back to the 1920s, in addition to the overall race winner, the Le Mans 24 Hours always crowned Index of Performance and Index of Thermal Efficiency winners, which tended to (but not always) favor the smaller engine classes.
     
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