{"id":2395,"date":"2010-02-12T07:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2010-02-12T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:05:07","slug":"williams-to-buy-more-of-own-hybrid-power-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-to-buy-more-of-own-hybrid-power-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams to buy more of own hybrid power company"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Williams intends to buy more of the company that has developed its flywheel KERS system.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It emerged on Thursday that, following FOTA&#8217;s 2010 KERS ban, the energy recovery unit will instead be fitted to Porsche&#8217;s new 911 GT3 R Hybrid road car, and raced by the marque at the Nurburgring.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Williams, already developing the system for Tata Motors&#8217; Jaguar Land Rover, said the technology will also be available to buses, trains, ships and wind power generation.<\/p>\n<p>The Grove based team bought a 40 per cent share in the British company Automotive Hybrid Power in 2008, relocating it to the team&#8217;s factory and renaming it Williams Hybrid Power.<\/p>\n<p>Team chief executive Adam Parr told the financial news service Bloomberg that Williams is now buying a majority stake in the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very hopeful it will turn into a great business,&#8221; he said, adding that it could provide &#8220;a significant contribution&#8221; to the F1 team&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams intends to buy more of the company that has developed its flywheel KERS system. \u00a0 It emerged on Thursday that, following FOTA&#8217;s 2010 KERS ban, the energy recovery unit will instead be fitted to Porsche&#8217;s new 911 GT3 R Hybrid road car, and raced by the marque at the Nurburgring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,702,703,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}