Sunday 11 September 2011

All-electric F1 could boost electric car research

Paul Marks, senior technology correspondent
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(Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features)
The success of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), the battery-assisted speed booster introduced to Formula One cars this season, has motorsport executives believing that an all-electric version of the F1 competition could spur development of longer range electric road cars.
"We'll definitely see an electric F1 one day," says Nick Fry, the influential chief executive of the Mercedes grand prix team, and who previously ran Brawn, the 2009 F1 championship winner. "To start with it'd be in parallel with regular F1, like the electric version of the Isle of Man TT motorbike race runs alongside the TT. Everyone thought an electric TT a bit of a joke to start with but now it's being taken very seriously."
KERS comprises a combined motor/generator fixed to an engine's drive shaft and a tray of lithium-ion batteries slung beneath the car. During braking, the generator converts kinetic energy to electricity to charge the batteries. Once a lap, the driver can get a 6.6 second speed boost by dumping that charge into the motor, gaining a power boost of 60 kilowatts (80 horsepower in old money).

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