{"id":4833,"date":"2010-04-28T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:43:09","slug":"williams-buys-more-of-own-kers-flywheel-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-buys-more-of-own-kers-flywheel-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams buys more of own KERS flywheel company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams on Wednesday announced it has bought more of the company that developed its flywheel KERS system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We reported in February that, because FOTA has banned the energy recovery technology for now, Williams&#8217; system will instead be fitted to Porsche&#8217;s new 911 GT3 R Hybrid road car.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of its Nordschleife debut in May, the Porsche debuted in Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s hands last Friday, with the German praising the flywheel as &#8220;fascinating technology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is also developing the system for Tata Motors&#8217; Jaguar Land Rover and it will be available for use in 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>Chief executive Adam Parr said in February that Williams will buy a majority stake in the company because it can provide &#8220;a significant contribution&#8221; to the F1 team&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Williams issued a statement confirming that its shareholding has increased to 78 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams on Wednesday announced it has bought more of the company that developed its flywheel KERS system.<\/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":[1451,5262,5261,5340,118,1450,155],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833"}],"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=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}