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20-06-2016, 04:40 PM
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Yes! A hybrid race car impresses the crowd at world renowned Le Mans! A Toyota Hybrid does well. Good for Toyota. and also for hybrid engines. It looks good for greenies now that the hybrid engine has broken some ground in the world of motor-racing. Me favourite car has moved a notch up from being a gas sipper to a racing car as well! Great job Toyota!
Cheers!
http://driving.ca/toyota/auto-news/n...ty-to-build-on (http://driving.ca/toyota/auto-news/news/despite-le-mans-heartbreak-toyota-has-plenty-to-build-on)
Toyota's impressive hybrid-electric race car just a harbinger of things to come for the racing world
By Neil Vorano
12 hours ago
LE MANS, France – It was one of the most heartbreaking and shocking losses in the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans; the number 5 Toyota TS050 LMP1 car had been leading for almost the entire race here in France when, with just over three minutes left in the entire 24 hours, it slowed to a stop on a straight with a problem, handing the win to a very happily surprised Porsche team. It would have been Toyota’s first Le Mans win in its history, but it was not to be.
But the Japanese team will get over it and compete again, having come so close to victory. And when they do, it will no doubt be with another car powered by a hybrid electric powertrain. It really has become Toyota’s bread and butter, both on the road and the track.
No one will ever mistake this or future Toyota race cars with its ubiquitous green road car, the Prius. But the similarities may be closer than you think, as Toyota says the Le Mans car is a test bed for its road cars.
The TS050 is Toyota’s third new car since restarting its endurance racing program in 2012. It sports a 4.2-litre, twin-turbocharged V6 with electric motors front and back for all-wheel drive. But this powertrain is different than the previous cars in that, instead of having a capacitor to store energy for its hybrid system, it uses a lithium-ion battery just like – you guessed it – the Prius.
Traditionally, as Toyota says, race cars have developed technology that eventually trickles down to the cars we drive on the road: think disc brakes or dual-clutch gearboxes. But these days, says Vin Pham of Toyota Canada, that flow of technology is becoming reversed when it comes to hybrid technology.
Pham is the manager of product quality in Canada, but he also has a side project of his own; he competes in the FIA’s Alternative Energies Cup rally series, which puts less importance on performance and more on real-world speeds and fuel economy. He’ll be competing in another rally next week in Nîme in the south of France in a Toyota Prius. Coincidentally, one of Toyota’s drivers here in Le Mans, Stéphan Sarrazin, will be competing against him there.
The Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car, debuted in 1997 in Japan, but the alternative-energy powertrain has only recently been used in motorsports in the last four years. Pham sees the technology as becoming more and more prevalent in a sport that has traditionally been about all-out performance with no regard for emissions or fuel economy. It also means different driving strategies, as drivers will try to occasionally recover energy reserves by braking earlier for more electric power out of a turn.
“I think this will only grow,” he says. “With the Alternatives Energies Cup, it’s 50 per cent energy management. With F1 or World Endurance Championship (WEC), it’s not 50 per cent, but it’s gone from zero per cent to a lot more important.
“And as more road cars have greater technology in managing their energy, that’s having an upward trickle effect. Normally, motorsports has a trickle-down effect in terms of improving the product, but now the road car is having an effect on the top tiers of motorsport. It’s like, ‘You guys can’t just bomb around all day long, as fun as that is. We have a planet that we live on that we have to take care of.’ ”
The benefits of a hybrid system in motor racing are two-fold; one is that the car gets better fuel economy, which means fewer pit stops. Another benefit is the immediate torque an electric motor gives for powering out of turns. “The torque of an electric motor is far greater than a comparable gas engine, says Pham. “What racing driver doesn’t want that?”
It’s telling that Porsche’s Le Mans team also runs a hybrid electric car, while it offers hybrid versions of the Cayenne and Panamera, and its top-tier 918 road car has a hybrid powertrain, so other automakers are seeing the benefits of development of this technology. And Toyota is also going to run a Prius race car in Japan’s Super GT race series, complete with a V8 engine and hybrid system.
The world is slowly coming to accept that a hybrid powertrain can be not just environmentally friendly but also performance orientated, and Pham says motorsport can be not only the right format to demonstrate this but can also push the technology further for vehicles in our own driveways.
“It’s more about making sure that racing has the right idea behind it,” he says. “The technology has to be relevant to road cars.”
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?231609-Hybrid-engined-car-does-well-at-Le-Mans!!!&goto=newpost).
Yes! A hybrid race car impresses the crowd at world renowned Le Mans! A Toyota Hybrid does well. Good for Toyota. and also for hybrid engines. It looks good for greenies now that the hybrid engine has broken some ground in the world of motor-racing. Me favourite car has moved a notch up from being a gas sipper to a racing car as well! Great job Toyota!
Cheers!
http://driving.ca/toyota/auto-news/n...ty-to-build-on (http://driving.ca/toyota/auto-news/news/despite-le-mans-heartbreak-toyota-has-plenty-to-build-on)
Toyota's impressive hybrid-electric race car just a harbinger of things to come for the racing world
By Neil Vorano
12 hours ago
LE MANS, France – It was one of the most heartbreaking and shocking losses in the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans; the number 5 Toyota TS050 LMP1 car had been leading for almost the entire race here in France when, with just over three minutes left in the entire 24 hours, it slowed to a stop on a straight with a problem, handing the win to a very happily surprised Porsche team. It would have been Toyota’s first Le Mans win in its history, but it was not to be.
But the Japanese team will get over it and compete again, having come so close to victory. And when they do, it will no doubt be with another car powered by a hybrid electric powertrain. It really has become Toyota’s bread and butter, both on the road and the track.
No one will ever mistake this or future Toyota race cars with its ubiquitous green road car, the Prius. But the similarities may be closer than you think, as Toyota says the Le Mans car is a test bed for its road cars.
The TS050 is Toyota’s third new car since restarting its endurance racing program in 2012. It sports a 4.2-litre, twin-turbocharged V6 with electric motors front and back for all-wheel drive. But this powertrain is different than the previous cars in that, instead of having a capacitor to store energy for its hybrid system, it uses a lithium-ion battery just like – you guessed it – the Prius.
Traditionally, as Toyota says, race cars have developed technology that eventually trickles down to the cars we drive on the road: think disc brakes or dual-clutch gearboxes. But these days, says Vin Pham of Toyota Canada, that flow of technology is becoming reversed when it comes to hybrid technology.
Pham is the manager of product quality in Canada, but he also has a side project of his own; he competes in the FIA’s Alternative Energies Cup rally series, which puts less importance on performance and more on real-world speeds and fuel economy. He’ll be competing in another rally next week in Nîme in the south of France in a Toyota Prius. Coincidentally, one of Toyota’s drivers here in Le Mans, Stéphan Sarrazin, will be competing against him there.
The Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car, debuted in 1997 in Japan, but the alternative-energy powertrain has only recently been used in motorsports in the last four years. Pham sees the technology as becoming more and more prevalent in a sport that has traditionally been about all-out performance with no regard for emissions or fuel economy. It also means different driving strategies, as drivers will try to occasionally recover energy reserves by braking earlier for more electric power out of a turn.
“I think this will only grow,” he says. “With the Alternatives Energies Cup, it’s 50 per cent energy management. With F1 or World Endurance Championship (WEC), it’s not 50 per cent, but it’s gone from zero per cent to a lot more important.
“And as more road cars have greater technology in managing their energy, that’s having an upward trickle effect. Normally, motorsports has a trickle-down effect in terms of improving the product, but now the road car is having an effect on the top tiers of motorsport. It’s like, ‘You guys can’t just bomb around all day long, as fun as that is. We have a planet that we live on that we have to take care of.’ ”
The benefits of a hybrid system in motor racing are two-fold; one is that the car gets better fuel economy, which means fewer pit stops. Another benefit is the immediate torque an electric motor gives for powering out of turns. “The torque of an electric motor is far greater than a comparable gas engine, says Pham. “What racing driver doesn’t want that?”
It’s telling that Porsche’s Le Mans team also runs a hybrid electric car, while it offers hybrid versions of the Cayenne and Panamera, and its top-tier 918 road car has a hybrid powertrain, so other automakers are seeing the benefits of development of this technology. And Toyota is also going to run a Prius race car in Japan’s Super GT race series, complete with a V8 engine and hybrid system.
The world is slowly coming to accept that a hybrid powertrain can be not just environmentally friendly but also performance orientated, and Pham says motorsport can be not only the right format to demonstrate this but can also push the technology further for vehicles in our own driveways.
“It’s more about making sure that racing has the right idea behind it,” he says. “The technology has to be relevant to road cars.”
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?231609-Hybrid-engined-car-does-well-at-Le-Mans!!!&goto=newpost).