thats the way, small capacity, lightweight and cheap battery packs. good strong electric motors and a decent petrol punchy engine to keep things in order. i approve.
this is where the technology needs to be for 10 years to develop and for the prices to come down, not in mass market medium to small family cars.
i'm for the KERS type effect seen in F1 this is how i think the development should go, and extra 80bhp on tap for short intervals is all that any driver needs on public roads. even for the boy racer in us all when we give it full beans on empty country roads we only need that power for say 5 minutes at a time, only tiny battery packs are needed for this short duration power shots, the rest of the time we can make do with very small output petrol engines which are very efficent. which can recharge the capictors/battery pack with some assitance for kinetic energy recovery.
i am disappointed F1 is standardising KERS and not allowing a technology war, this is where the money needs to be researched. hopefully the £40 million budget cap will come in and them the regualtions will change.
