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Today, high-performance clutch design is so sophisticated, and manufacturers' claims often so conflicting, that it's difficult to know just what type of clutch is best for your particular application.

The flywheel plays a major role in how a car reacts, and choosing the wrong one for your application can make the car difficult to drive, or a sloth under acceleration. Often, a problem can be solved ...

After years of being billed as the next great revolutionary means of propulsion, flywheels may finally be ready for prime time. Aside from a few modest successes, flywheels have not lived up to this ...

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Back in March 2005, I admitted being no fan of organized motorsports. The context was a report from the SAE Motorsports Engineering Conference and Exhibition on a move to add energy efficiency as a ...

As a means to store energy, power cars, or even ensure geopolitical survival, batteries suddenly rule our planet. Within the past two decades, however, racing minds briefly saw one of humankind’s ...

Christoph Thetard has developed a mechanical flywheel drive to power a set of kitchen appliances for his Diploma in Product Design at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The kitchen machine, coffee ...

Publications ranging from Wired Magazine to Discover described them as the next major source of clean power. Enthusiastic inventors claimed flywheels could be the primary power source for a variety of ...