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About:Energy is one of the world’s leading battery technology modelling/sim companies.
Gavin White completed his PhD at Imperial College, London, in 2024, where he majored in measuring the thermal properties of lithium-ion cells. Simultaneously, in 2021, he co-founded About:Energy with Dr Kieran O’Regan. Their list of clients includes both Porsche and Mercedes-Benz.
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Virtue signaling.
"Road relevance" is a phrase I am glad has been avoided in recent years. If road relevance was important then make 250 bhp 4 seater F1 cars with cup holders. But people don't want to watch a motorway, they want an alien experience with loud, fast cars that make them draw breath. This is why N/A V10 engines are mentioned in so many social media comments on F1 posts. A real challenge would be to squeeze the most power from a 2.0 L n/a V10 engine mated to a small ERS. Give people what they want.
The reason F1 has tight technical regulations is because it creates diminishing returns, which reduces the benefit of having a huge budget.
But now we have a budget cap, so excessively tight regulations have become redundant. Isn't it time that the FIA started relaxing the regulations a bit and allowed the teams to become more experimental?
Let them run capacitors or flywheels. Give them some variation on powertrain design, fuel and energy storage. Relax the aero a little bit. Let them experiment a bit more.
It's an expression of the cultural meme "technological change equals progress".
It's how our current growth focussed capitalism functions.
It's the same reason why mobile phones include 4k video cameras and why Microsoft is making products that get worse year by year not better.