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From the new GM Authority photos...
The new mid-engine vette will be a hybrid, with a regenerative braking system installed on the rear disks.
On the rear brake assembly, the front (large) caliper is the normal brake, and the rear (smaller, at the 9 o'clock) caliper looking system looks like those normal used on the rear brakes of many hybrid/electric cars. This thing is gonna fly with hybrid support.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that is the electric parking brake caliper. The regenerative braking systems use the motor to generate electricity back to the battery as the car slows down.
However, I do think this is a possibility. The earlier pictures of some kind of **** on the fender does look like a kill switch for electricity. There are some supercars out there that are going this route to boost hp.
Lol that’s the parking brake. Also having it in the wheel would add unsprung weight which is bad for many things in addition to multiple other problems and downsides of having it in the wheel. It’s the same reason that in-wheel hub motors are never going to be a mainstream thing.
From the new GM Authority photos...
The new mid-engine vette will be a hybrid, with a regenerative braking system installed on the rear disks.
On the rear brake assembly, the front (large) caliper is the normal brake, and the rear (smaller, at the 9 o'clock) caliper looking system looks like those normal used on the rear brakes of many hybrid/electric cars. This thing is gonna fly with hybrid support.
The energy recovery is via the half shafts rotating a motor/generator not via the brakes. As a note my 2017 Model S 100D no longer has the parking brake caliper that earlier Model S cars were equipped with yet it still has aggressive regenerative braking.
That's a great idea. That 2.65 liter blower pulls a lot of power from the crankshaft.
Unfortunately the battery's weight might offset the power gain quite a bit.
Better to have turbos and partly use the battery to keep the turbos spun up to reduce lag.
The power unit is deemed to consist of six separate elements: the internal combustion engine (ICE), the motor generator unit-kinetic (MGU-K), the motor generator unit-heat (MGU-H), the energy store (ES), turbocharger (TC) and control electronics (CE).
04-11-2018, 04:32 PM
Mid-Engine Vette willl be a HYBRID
