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Hybrid Technology - In A Race Car?

May 30, 1:08 PMBusiness ExaminerDarrell Proctor
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Formula One car According to The Wall Street Journal, BMW AG is developing a hybrid race car to run on the Formula One circuit in 2009. 

It's apparently a nod to rules changes in Formula One that will allow teams "to boost the power of their cars using fuel-saving technologies."

Many folks don't know that much of the technology in today's passenger cars - for that matter, in passenger cars from 100 years ago - is developed at the race track. The first rearview mirror on a vehicle? Ray Harroun's Marmon Wasp car in the 1911 Indianapolis 500 (incidentally, the first Indy 500 - and Harroun won).

It will be interesting to see this idea come to fruition.

For more info: Want to learn more about hybrid technology for vehicles? Check out hybridcars.com, including the site's historical timeline. Did you know the first electric car is traced to Scotland in 1839?
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