Key takeaways:

Gearboxes will have 6 gears instead of 8.

The cars will have to use 30kg of fuel only to generate electric power.

The wheelbase will be shortened by 30 cm

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but, it’s very inefficient to have a gas generator instead of just using the gas to run the motor, right?

    In Toyota road hybrids it’s actually more efficient because charging the battery at constant lower revs burns less fuel than increasing revs to accelerate but that’s just road cars, no idea about 2026 F1 cars.

    Burning fuel is definitively less efficient than generating electricity under braking from the front axle.