The Road to the 50% Thermally Efficient Internal Combustion Engine | Pat Symonds

Pat Symonds explores some of the techniques that have been employed on current Formula 1 hybrid power units to reach 50% thermal efficiency using examples from modelling work undertaken with Cranfield University. He discusses the fundamental rethink required when a racing engine is fuel limited as opposed to air limited and look to lessons that could be transferred to other high power density mobility systems, as well as considering how such an engine could develop in the future.