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The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LM P1 is, to put it bluntly, one of the craziest ideas to pull out onto a race track in decades. It's a front engined front-drive car that puts out over 1200 horsepower. Yes, you read that correctly: A front engined front-drive racecar. Let's take a look under the hood.

The Flybus consortium is set to start testing its prototype flywheel hybrid bus.

Volvo indulged in some odd behaviour overnight when it made a curious omission from a publicity release promoting the Kinetic Energy Recovery System development for which it has just received a US$1,000,000 grant from the Swedish Energy Agency.

Williams F1 has increased its shareholding in Williams Hybrid Power to 78% on the back of favorable racetrack results and growing confidence its hybrid technology will find application in cars, buses, trains, ships and wind power generation.

A mechanical KERS system fitted to a bus has demonstrated more than 30 percent fuel saving over the London bus test cycle, yet can package around an existing transmission at less cost than an electrical solution.