F-1 to Move over to Hybrids

20kg eguals 44 pounds, not sure how much hybrid technology you can make with that little weight. Of course everthing is light in F1.

So it is the TDI in Le Mans and Hybrid in the F1. War of the Fuel Efficiency lords :). Keep fuel longer for less refueling = faster finishing times. Really this could lead to some great technology improvements in the consumer versions.

kart1 - I seldom agree with you but your are bang on with this point. If they play the cards right, these two series can become technological showcases for the efficiency of the vehicles as well as just performance. Indy racing has seen this too and are moving to ethanol in the future. NASCAR is dragging their heels which suprises me, they always want to slow the cars down, give em ethanol and that ought to drop the HP a bit.

kart1 - I seldom agree with you but your are bang on with this point. If they play the cards right, these two series can become technological showcases for the efficiency of the vehicles as well as just performance. Indy racing has seen this too and are moving to ethanol in the future. NASCAR is dragging their heels which suprises me, they always want to slow the cars down, give em ethanol and that ought to drop the HP a bit.

No one can describe hybrids better than F1.
High performnce and at the same time fuel effecient.
This is what the F1 needs.This is what the world needs.

This thing alone the F1,describes the whole idea of hybridisation better than any advertisement,rewiew..etc.HYBRIDS.

I hope next time when toyota advertise an hybrid car or hybrid engine,they must include or name F1 in that advertisement.

Hybrids are the next big thing.
I hope it keeps on improving in both the departments (performance & fuel effeciency)in the not to distant future.

JUGNU----->THE CARMAN

LeMans & F1 should be open to which technology race teams want to use. Whether they use gas, gas-elect, diesel, diesel-elect, or elect, it shouldn't matter. These racing organizations should allow the teams to use whatever they want so the industry can properly compete at making the best performance-oriented fuel-efficient powertrain imaginable.

JUGNU

The next big thing huh? What about diesel? If you really want to be ahead of the curve, I would place an order for a new diesel car due out in about a year's time. These new high tech diesels have performance every bit as good as a gas engine with much better highway mileage compared with a "gas-electric" hybrid. I feel this is a much better short term solution than expensive and complicated Hybrid technologies which I see as a sort of band-aid approach to the current crisis.

The early adopters of hybrids were idealists or fanatics, who ignored the price premium and were blind to the real world fuel economy returns, which turned out to be far less impressive than the misleading government tests suggested.