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. He develops and supports electronic control systems for hybrid race cars, which feature combustion engines and battery-powered electric motors. and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Audi unveiled its redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for the 2016 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. The FIA WEC regulations have been providing automobile manufacturers with incentives to build increasingly efficient race cars since 2014. At the same time, the speed of the LMP1 race cars continually increases.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

At the heart of this is the AMG High Performance Battery (HPB) for the upcoming performance hybrid models. Development of the lithium-ion energy storage system began in 2016 and was inspired by technologies that have proven themselves in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team’s Formula 1 hybrid racing 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.

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