Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2024

Engineers who support race teams also need to work at a breakneck pace to fix problems, and that’s something Aakhilesh Singhania relishes. Singhania is a senior applications engineer at Bosch Engineering , in Novi, Mich. He became friendly with the Bosch team that worked on electronics for race cars.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Hitzinger was technical director of the Porsche 919 hybrid race-car project before joining Apple as head of product design for its special projects group, a position he held from 2016 to 2019 before returning to the Volkswagen Group, where he worked on autonomous driving and an Audi EV project. manufacturing.

BYD 52

BYD Battery Batteries Hybrid Racing 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The energy required for this comes from a high-voltage battery, which can be charged as required while driving via an energy converter in the form of a highly efficient TFSI engine. In 2012, Audi achieved the first victory of a hybrid racing car in the Le Mans 24 Hours.

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Audi Hybrid 2017 Hybrid Racing 269

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Ogiso—who earlier in his career had been the chief engineer for the Prius, chief engineer for the Prius family, and chief engineer, product planning—made the remarks at the “2013 Toyota Hybrid World Tour” event the company staged in Ypsilanti, Michigan. —Satoshi Ogiso. qdash;Satoshi Ogiso.

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Prius Hydrogen Toyota Plug-in 277

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Audi Sport has been giving its name to the current Formula E team since the inaugural 2014/2015 Formula E season, and has made one of its factory drivers, Lucas di Grassi, available in the course of this cooperation. With quattro drive we revolutionized rally racing and subsequently set standards in circuit racing as well.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Among the new features in the R18 are a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell; a Li-ion battery replacing the flywheel energy storage system; and a revised V6 TDI diesel engine. The FIA WEC regulations have been providing automobile manufacturers with incentives to build increasingly efficient race cars since 2014.

Audi 150

Audi 2016 Hybrid Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Porsche has presented the second generation of its Le Mans Prototype 919 Hybrid race car. The new racer will compete in the 8 MJ category (8 MJ of recovered energy per race lap)—the highest of the current four energy categories in the LMP1 class. Different requirements apply to the other WEC racing venues—i.e.

Porsche 150

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