就像时尚跑道在他们的行业中开创了风格的先例一样，商业汽车比赛平台在汽车行业中也做着同样的事情。这些最先进的高性能引擎的研发花费了数百万美元。市场效益超过了投资。这些价值数百万美元的赛车是夸大了汽车引擎发展的新趋势。到目前为止，大多数投资完全集中在速度和性能上，没有有意识地提高效率。出于这个原因，国际汽车联合会(Federation international de l'Automobile)于10月24日在巴黎宣布“全面冻结”发动机研发。该组织管理着世界上大部分的赛车赛事。此举旨在推动f1社区在混合动力和替代燃料系统方面的快速创新。本田的f1车队已经将环保意识作为其形象的核心。仅本田F1车队每年就在引擎研发上花费2.5亿美元。即使只花其中的一小部分来开发混合动力和替代燃料技术，也会带来惊人的进步。 Advancements are already being made on this front. "Energy Efficient Motorsports", a division of Britain's Department of Trade and Industry has begun development of their patented "Kinetic-energy recovery systems", which will make it's F1 debut in 2009. These systems use a flywheel in the transmission to capture the energy generated during braking and store it for use during acceleration. It improves the current technology used in hybrid cars, which rely on heavy batteries to store recovered energy. Re-focusing the Formula 1 racing investments on greener alternatives is paving the way for efficient technologies to be financed and developed. Hopefully in good time, these fashions will trickle down to the mass production level and not stay on the theoretical “runway.” Reuse…Save up to 90% off list price and save the environment too when you shop atUsedCisco.com从《连线》杂志作者:Joshua Levitt UsedCisco.com电子商务销售和市场经理通过电子邮件注册接收Green Your Network博客
