Williams Hybrid Power Ltd (WHP) has developed a novel, patented electromechanical composite flywheel system that provides a high-power, cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for mobile or stationary energy recovery and storage.
The company’s first application of the technology was in the highly competitive and extremely harsh environment of Formula One racing. Through development of a flywheel for Williams F1’s Kinetic Energy Recovery System, WHP has proved its world-class engineering capabilities in the composite flywheel field as well as radically improving aspects of the technology in the process.
Building on the Formula One project, the company is now making the technology available to meet the high-power energy storage needs in a variety of applications including hybrid passenger vehicles, hybrid buses, construction & off-highway vehicles, electric trains, rapid transit systems, intermittent renewable energy generation and smart grid infrastructure.
- Very high continuous symmetric power density
- Sufficient energy capacity
- Long charge/discharge cycle life
- Insensitive to ambient temperature
- Manufactured using mature mass-production processes
- Non-toxic construction resulting in low-cost recycling at end of life