Saturday, May 28, 2011

Red Bull Racing To Tap Nissan`s Battery Tech Experts


Battery tech experts ?ver at Nissan will be tapped t? boost the performance ?f vehicles fielded by the w?rld champion F1 Red Bull Racing team, acc?rding t? What Car? Having recently signed a two-year sp?nsorship deal with Infiniti, Red Bull is n?w seeking a c?llaborative agreement ?n technical projects with Japanese aut?maker Nissan. According t? reports, members ?f Red Bull Racing have already met with pers?nnel at Nissan's UK technical center and will RBR engineers will soon g? t? Nissan's research and development facility in Japan.

W?rd is that the Red Bull Racing team has struggled t? make its KERS system work and will likely turn t? Nissan for assistance with the perf?rmance-boosting setup. It's als? believed that Nissan, with its extensive lithium-i?n battery know-h?w, may assist with developing a m?re powerful pack f?r the Red Bull Racing team.
Red Bull F1 b?ss, Christian Horner, t?ld What Car? that:
Our budget int? battery technology is minuscule c?mpared with Nissan's and they are working ?n developments a l?ng way in advance ?f what's commercially available today. H?pefully, they can help us, and then we can help them by effectively testing their prototypes in extreme c?nditi?ns.
S?, it looks like it's a tw?-way deal, with Nissan gaining valuable time testing its pr?t?type vehicles.

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