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Corsa Motorsports Teams with Zytek to Field Hybrid with Li-Ion Pack in American Le Mans Series

Posted on August 29, 2008

The Zytek hybrid. Click to enlarge.Corsa Motorsports and UK-based Zytek Group have formed a strategic alliance to produce the first Le Mans Prototype car fitted with a hybrid powertrain. Corsa will compete as a works team in the LMP1 class of the American Le Mans Series. The car will be powered through a combination of a new ethanol-fueled (E10) internal combustion engine and a three-phase induction 35 kW electric motor with a Li-ion battery pack for energy storage and a rear wheel-fitted KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) for supplemental regeneration.(In August 2007, Zytek announced that ...

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