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Old 05-25-2021, 10:18 PM   #18 (permalink)
Isaac Zachary
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Avalon - '13 Toyota Avalon HV
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Originally Posted by Galvatron1 View Post
That’s incredible. Thanks for sharing, I hadn’t heard about this. Glad to see it implemented in humongous vehicles.

Brilliant solution to braking energy recapture. I hope it’s reliable and safe. Do you know how long UPS has been doing this? I might have missed that part, thanks.

Hope to see cars with a solution that is as efficient also. I’ve seen flywheels, but not sure it’s gained any traction.
It seems like there was a bit of attention drawn to hydraulic hybrids when UPS deployed their first HHV truck. After that there seemed to be a small amount of news about them until EV's started rolling out. Then the idea seems to have kind of been lost.
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