Yesterday, at the Hungarian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton drove the first KERS car to win a Formula One race, 10 races after its baptism into F1. During winter testing most teams tried out a KERS ...

KERS of the hybrid car: Flywheels and ultracapacitors give you a 10-second jolt. Volvo eyes a 60,000-rpm kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) flywheel to improve performance and fuel economy.

Regardless of the storage system, all KERS systems are based on the recovery of energy by linking an electric motor-generator to the brakes such that it’s used to slow the car at first.

Sometimes F1 confuses me. Recent examples would be the recent steward interventions, the introduction of the winner takes all points system, and Max Mosley's recent assurances that F1 does not ...

In this car, a production turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engine drives the front wheels while the flywheel KERS unit drives the rear wheels. The operation is fairly simple.

KERS, as we've all explained to our grandmas, is the Kinetic Energy Recovery System that's in use on F1 cars to give them momentary bursts of power, like the TURBO button in a video game. The ...

From this season teams are allowed to use KERS to draw 60 Kw of energy from the rear axle on the car, which can be stored up to a total of 400kJ (111 watt hour) of energy per lap, to be reused in ...

The basics of the KERS technology is this: it stores the kinetic energy of a moving vehicle when braking and then releases it back into the car's drive train during acceleration.

British company Zytek is the driving force behind the KERS power-boost system used in McLaren-Mercedes' Formula 1 cars. But is it working on KERS for road-going cars?

This is the penultimate car launch of the 2013 season, the Marussia MR02. The fourth car built by the team that was known as Virgin in its first two Formula One seasons is said to be a ...