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HybridWho Says Hybrids Need Batteries?Who Says Hybrids Need Batteries?
While Formula 1 Teams Gear Up to integrate flywheel-based, mechanical-hybrid systems into their racecars for next year's season, the efficiency and simplicity of the energy-recovery technology is spurring interest in possible road-car applications. Pioneered by U.K.-based Torotrak plc and developed as the kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) with transmission specialist Xtrac Ltd. and engineering