TOYOTA Supra HV-R hybrid wins Tokashi 24-Hour Race

Toyota had made history by winning the Tokashi 24-Hour Race with a hybrid car, i'm talking about the Supra HV-R hybrid race car. It's the first time ever that a Hybrid race car has won a competition. The Supra’s success follows an entry last year when Toyota was the first car manufacturer to enter a hybrid vehicle, the Lexus GS450h, into the Tokashi 24-Hour race finishing 17th overall. By entering hybrid systems into racing events, Toyota engineers hope to discover ways to make hybrid systems, such as those fitted to the Toyota Prius production car, more efficient and lighter. It needed only two years of competition to rise into the top.
This race car is based on the Japanese Super GT races using modified and equipped special racing hybrid system. To improve the system’s energy regeneration and operating efficiency during the race, two distinctive technologies were incorporated:

A four-wheel energy regeneration and drive system was adopted which includes in-wheel motors in the front wheels in addition to one 150 kW rear-axle mounted electric motor.
Thanks to this energy regeneration system with the 3 motors/generators, the vehicle could efficiently recover a greater amount of energy during rapid deceleration and breaking from high speeds.
In light of the fact that racing involves repeated acceleration and deceleration under peak performance, a quick-charging capacitor system was adopted instead of the usual rechargeable batteries.

The TOYOTA Team name is "SARD", and has for drivers the Portuguese Andre Couto, and 3 Japanese, Katsuyuki Hiranaka, Akira Lida and Tatsuya Kataoka. And they run a class GT/TP1 Engine Modified (Super GT version 3UZ-FE engine Enginedisplacement 4,480ccAir restrictor 29.6mm i2Maximum output 480ps min/6.800rpmMaximum torque 510 Nm at 5.600rpmElectric motor Front motor: 10kW i2 (in-wheel motor)Rear motor: 150kWVehicle weight 1.080 kg

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