Miksi kuitenkin yksi KERS:n akku maksaa 70 000€ eli enemmän kuin 1 tavallinen Toyota Corolla? Oletko nyt ihan varma, että puhut samasta tekniikasta?
Puhuinko minä samasta tekniikasta? Minähän nimenomaan sanoin, että siviilipuolen tekniikka ei ole samanlaista, vaan kehittyneempää. KERS on kineettisen energian talteenottoa, ja siihen käy useampi tekniikka.
Minähän en asiasta mitään ymmärrä, joten uskon niitä, joiden luulisi ymmärtävän.
Toyotan Marmorini:
"The adoption of energy recovery leaves me rather perplexed because
the system chosen by the FIA is really primitive"
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(They are) extremely simplified compared to the system we have on the Toyota Prius road car, or even on the Toyota Supra HV-R that won the 24 Hours of Tokachi.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/65226
"If there is some know-how in a company it has to be an advantage but we do not expect this to provide us with much tangible benefit compared to the other teams as
KERS is not directly comparable to what is done on a normal road car.Formula One is a unique environment where weight reduction is vitally important. The way Toyota develops a road car is different and the aim is for efficiency in terms of fuel consumption.
The ideal version in a road car is more sophisticated than KERS in Formula One because it not only means you can downsize your engine, but also takes into account other conditions, it recovers energy from the front and the rear and there is no limitation on the time it is deployed.
KERS development will inevitably increase our understanding of hybrid systems but,
at this stage, we do not expect it to provide any major breakthroughs for road car development.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69502
Toyotan Yamashita:
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Honestly speaking KERS in F1 is very different from current production cars. From the beginning, I was against this idea for KERS, just on cost grounds. There are development costs, and learning costs, so even if Toyota are not the first team to utilise KERS in F1, I am sure we will not be blamed. We are confident that KERS and the hybrid system are very different, and I am proud of the production car first.”
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Some people have mentioned that through the development of F1 KERS, in the future production cars will have the same type of KERS. But I don't believe that."
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/toyota-consider-abandoning-kers-for-good-3436.html