{"id":91479,"date":"2014-03-07T19:39:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91479"},"modified":"2014-03-07T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T02:39:57","slug":"porsche-le-mans-racer-is-attempting-to-use-the-energy-we-lose-from-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91479","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Le Mans Racer is Attempting to Use the Energy we lose from Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gasoline engines have gotten incredibly good at squeezing all the energy they can out of gas. The problem is that &#8220;incredibly good&#8221; still means about 37% efficiency. If my high school transcript is any measure, 37% still kind of sucks. The rest of that energy is lost as heat, but there are ways to reclaim it. Ask Porsche.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Porsche&#8217;s 919 Hybrid racer is using a pretty novel drivetrain: a 500HP 2L V4 engine (a first, if you don&#8217;t count their flat-fours as a 180\u00b0V) and an electric KERS system with an electric motor active on the front wheels. But what makes it interesting is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/porsche-lemans-racer-is-attempting-to-use-the-energy-we-1536368898\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gasoline engines have gotten incredibly good at squeezing all the energy they can out of gas. The problem is that &#8220;incredibly good&#8221; still means about 37% efficiency. If my high school transcript is any measure, 37% still kind of sucks. The rest of that energy is lost as heat, but there are ways to reclaim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91480,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91479\/revisions\/91480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}