Toyota answers: "Meet you at the track!"
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Toyota answers: "Meet you at the track!"
http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0...-21822,00.html
The best place to evaluate a technology is on the track and Toyota has thrown down the gantlet. This is great and I look forward to seeing more hybrids on the track.
Bob Wilson
Supra hybrid wins race
21 November 2007
Stuart Innes
Engineers have developed hybrid technology into a winning formula for long-distance racing.
. . .
The 360kW, V8 race car that had been retired from Japan's Super GT series was converted to the electric-and-petrol hybrid system. Entered as the Denso Toyota Supra HV-R, it took pole, led most of the way with a comfortable gap and then opened out the lead over the closing stages to a formidable 19-lap margin.
The Supra HV-R's 4480cc V8 engine generates 360kW of power at 6800rm and 510Nm torque at 5600rpm.
But then a small, 10kW electric motor was fitted to each front wheel and a third, main electric motor delivering 150kW to drive the rear wheels. The whole car weighs just 1080kg.
. . .
21 November 2007
Stuart Innes
Engineers have developed hybrid technology into a winning formula for long-distance racing.
. . .
The 360kW, V8 race car that had been retired from Japan's Super GT series was converted to the electric-and-petrol hybrid system. Entered as the Denso Toyota Supra HV-R, it took pole, led most of the way with a comfortable gap and then opened out the lead over the closing stages to a formidable 19-lap margin.
The Supra HV-R's 4480cc V8 engine generates 360kW of power at 6800rm and 510Nm torque at 5600rpm.
But then a small, 10kW electric motor was fitted to each front wheel and a third, main electric motor delivering 150kW to drive the rear wheels. The whole car weighs just 1080kg.
. . .
Bob Wilson
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