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(Image credit: Jaguar)
(Image credit: Jaguar)
I recently visited the impressive new headquarters of Jaguar TCS Racing at Kidlington in Oxfordshire. It’s where the team’s very successful electric Formula E racing cars, now in their third generation, are engineered. All the talk was about how racing developments will help improve the company’s future roadgoing electric Range Rovers, Defenders, Discoverys and Jaguars.
(Image credit: Jaguar)
(Image credit: Jaguar)
According to Jack Lambert, Jaguar’s Research and Innovation Manager, their racing engineers, in partnership with Wolfspeed, have created improved silicon carbide semiconductors that boost the performance of the inverter, a component that converts direct current from the battery into alternating current that powers the motor.
Other advances include heat conducting materials, developed in conjunction with Dow Chemical, that are new to automotive applications and improve the all-important business of EV thermal management. Meanwhile, new gearbox oils that can be re-refined, cutting emissions in half, have been developed with Castrol. The recycled lubricants achieve performance parity with virgin oils in the most demanding conditions. All these developments will help improve the company’s electric road cars.
Hydrogen is also being explored in a competitive environment. The Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the organiser of the Le Mans 24 Hours, has announced that it will allow hydrogen-engined vehicles to compete in the legendary endurance race in 2026. Renault’s sporting brand, Alpine says it’s developing a fuel cell hydrogen-powered car for the event while Toyota has shown its GR H2 Racing Concept, which burns the fuel.
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It’s all very exciting. We could be on the brink of a creative and exhilarating new era of motorsport-inspired road car tech. Pop the champagne corks - we will all be winners!
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