ToroTrak fka LSE:TRK

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For once I’ve started to get excited by something that Torotrak has done. On first reading I took this to be an application in a small (if prestigious) niche market. I’m sure the license fee per box would be considerably higher than that for road cars, but then there wouldn’t be that many of them.

Then I read the following article:

http://www.tbm-f1.de/articles.html

and it becomes clear that this could be very big indeed. Here is a system that would do away with all those silly electric motors and batteries that make the Toyota Prius so expensive to build and heavy to lug around. I can quite imagine that the weight of the total package for a road car would be a fraction of that used in F1, which in itself must be light enough not to hinder performance.

The only query I have is that of the gyroscopic effect going round corners, but then again, if it works in F1 it’s got to work on the road.