| [GMCnet] Interesting how fast things are changing in the car business - no direct GMC content [message #292386] |
Thu, 17 December 2015 17:21  |
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Toyota recently released details on the 2016 Prius which is slated to be in showrooms in January. This blurb from one of the racing pubs a few months ago is indicative of this rapid change. Five or ten years ago production car engineers would likely not have even been allowed around the factory racing engineers and vice versa:
"It’s expected that carmakers will apply lessons learned on the track to production cars, but it’s hard to believe Toyota’s TS040 Hybrid Le Mans racer and the humble Prius could have anything in common.
Yet the upcoming 2016 Prius will use some components adapted from the racing program, Toyota Motorsport president Yoshiaki Kinoshita told Automotive News(subscription required).
The parts in question are pretty small, though. They include microcontrollers, semiconductors, and other electronics hardware used to improve the efficiency of the powertrain.
In addition, engineers working on hybrid road-car development were cycled through the racing program for six months at a time."
Jerry
Jerry Work
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Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
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