Still, flywheels boosted Audis to a Le Mans three-peat. They whirred on the shotgun side of Porsche’s 911 GT3 R Hybrid, hoarding brake energy and spitting it out through front-axle motors.

Traditionally flywheels have also been big and bulky, but new materials mean they can be made smaller, able to spin faster. Crucially, ...

Instead, the flywheels are used to store energy trackside at each station, meaning there are fewer limitations on size, and the weight of the device does not have to be transported.

STEPHENTOWN -- A high-tech flywheel plant, touted as one of the nation's most innovative energy projects at its opening this summer, has had two massive, rapidly spinning underground flywheels ...

And flywheels. Some of you may have heard the story about the Hindu wise man who explained to a child that the earth rested on the back of an elephant. “But,” the child asked him, ...

Since flywheels are solid, unsprung components of a vehicle's driveline, a lightweight flywheel will decrease parasitic loss at a constant rate, improving a vehicle's horsepower and torque output ...

The flywheels are just the latest addition to the company’s impressive lineup of renewable energy systems. Roughly 76 percent of KEA’s electricity comes from hydroelectric energy, ...

Still, flywheels boosted Audis to a Le Mans three-peat. They whirred on the shotgun side of Porsche’s 911 GT3 R Hybrid, hoarding brake energy and spitting it out through front-axle motors.

Since flywheels are solid, unsprung components of a vehicle's driveline, a lightweight flywheel will decrease parasitic loss at a constant rate, improving a vehicle's horsepower and torque output ...