Confession - I learned driving on a Prius and loved it.
Hybrids are cool. In the same way that Macs are cool. However, people who get all evangelical about hybrids (or anything else) are profoundly uncool. Just like Apple fanboys (and linux people - except that linux people actually have a valid point or two). And regretfully, some of their uncoolness also reflects on the product that they adore. And guess what - that sucks! Hybrids are here to stay, and possibly change the wurlde for the better. If only people who dominate Priuschat did not come across as so blinkin' smug all the time. But they do.
However, there are hybrids and there are hybrids. All of them are not exercises in comfortable beigeness - and they are making their way into motorsports. First off, there is the obvious Formula1 push-to-pass battery system. And this potent stuff is making its way into endurance racing - from none other than what-is-it-nine-time Le Mans champions, Audi. But the stuff that makes me sit back and whistle, is of course from the masters are Zuffenhausen - the new GT3R hybrid from the 911 stable. Because this hybrid system uses a flywheel to store the braking energy - not some battery. I vote mechanical engineering over electrochemistry.
Hybrids are cool. In the same way that Macs are cool. However, people who get all evangelical about hybrids (or anything else) are profoundly uncool. Just like Apple fanboys (and linux people - except that linux people actually have a valid point or two). And regretfully, some of their uncoolness also reflects on the product that they adore. And guess what - that sucks! Hybrids are here to stay, and possibly change the wurlde for the better. If only people who dominate Priuschat did not come across as so blinkin' smug all the time. But they do.
However, there are hybrids and there are hybrids. All of them are not exercises in comfortable beigeness - and they are making their way into motorsports. First off, there is the obvious Formula1 push-to-pass battery system. And this potent stuff is making its way into endurance racing - from none other than what-is-it-nine-time Le Mans champions, Audi. But the stuff that makes me sit back and whistle, is of course from the masters are Zuffenhausen - the new GT3R hybrid from the 911 stable. Because this hybrid system uses a flywheel to store the braking energy - not some battery. I vote mechanical engineering over electrochemistry.
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