Originally Posted by
SpeedJunkie
It says it stores the wasted energy in a flywheel, keeping the energy kinetic. Not that the gets the energy from the flywheel.
Er, you can't "keep" KE unless you keep something is moving, but it can be converted into a different form of energy and be stored such as in this system. Another example would be your brakes. Your car converts the KE from the car into heat energy. In this hybrid system, I was curious of what the wasted energy was. Since there is barely any clutch disengaged time, I'm thinking maybe its on deceleration or braking.
Originally Posted by
buugiewuugie
just out curousity. Why dont they have a system that works off of the wheels turning. The wheels turning would make plenty of static electricity. It would only need an inital charge then after that it would run on its own.
static electricity? You mean like make an electric generator from the wheels spinning? By adding a generator powered by the wheels, there will be resistance on the wheels, making the car require more energy to accelerate. Your taking energy away from the performance just to add it back on and end up exactly where you were before, possibly even less due to losses in the system, which there always are. But who knows, maybe the conversion works out to the car's advantage.