DDFlyTrain flywheel hybrid technology to deliver around 10% fuel savings, rapid ROI

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By mmillikinJun 17, 2015, 6:00 am153 pts
The DDFlyTrain research project, conducted by Ricardo, Artemis Intelligent Power (a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy) and Bombardier Transportation, (earlier post) has projects a fuel savings of around 10% based on the use of high speed flywheel brake recovery technology retrofitted to Diesel Multiple Unit…

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