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Originally Posted by Arragonis
One of the teams bucked the trend on KERS and used a flywheel instead of batteries to store the extra power...
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See here, just a dozen or so threads down in this section:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ace-13310.html
The big advantage of flywheel storage, especially in a racing application, is that it's not really rate-limited. That is, with a battery you can only put energy in or take it out at a certain limited rate (which depends on battery chemistry etc), while a flywheel will basically take anything that doesn't melt the wires.