Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

Design a highly efficient, mobile electric flywheel capable of high-density energy storage that can supplement the power of internal combustion engines in hybrid electric vehicles during acceleration ...

Imagine how fast acceleration would be and how much lighter a motorcycle would be without a heavy flywheel. That’s the idea of American inventor Randy Moore of RK Transportation who has developed a ...

Pretty much every manufacturer is now at least experimenting with hybrid cars. The bulk of them use a high-voltage battery pack to store and deliver energy to supplement a gasoline engine. But in its ...

Porsche's 918 RSR's performance hybrid system relies on this giant flywheel — sitting where a passenger seat should be — to capture and release energy on command. It's a real-life turbo boost button.

Audi has disclosed some of the details of its forthcoming R18 e-tron quattro, revealing a turbodiesel, electric flywheel hybrid, all-wheel drive prototype, and ensuring that the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hour ...

One of the most exciting races of the year will be taking place this weekend, the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Circuit de la Sarthe near the French town of Le Mans. While the race is typically ...

Nissan engineers discovered a loophole that allowed them to use a second electric motor as a high-speed flywheel, storing ...

If the engine and/or manual transmission is coming out of your car or truck for whatever reason, you've probably considered giving the flywheel some attention at the same time. Similar to installing a ...