🗣️'The question is how and when and what.' TRD president David Wilson says work towards reducing carbon emissions in the NASCAR Cup Series through efforts to introduce electrification 'continues to be a work in progress' ⬇️
Toyota Racing Development president David Wilson says work towards reducing carbon emissions in the NASCAR Cup Series through efforts to introduce electrification"continues to be a work in progress”.NASCAR took a big step in 2012, moving from engines with carburetion to electronic fuel injection, which followed a change in 2011 to the use of Sunoco Green E15 fuel, blended with 15% bioethanol.
Speaking in a specially-convened press conference ahead of this weekend's Daytona 500, which kicks off NASCAR's 75th anniversary season, Wilson was joined by counterparts from Chevrolet and Ford to discuss the future. “What I’ll say is all of us sitting up here have been working very closely with NASCAR on new technologies, on a focus towards reduction of carbon, but it continues to be a work in progress.”Jim Campbell, U.S. vice president of performance and motorsports for Chevrolet, said the OEM is working on “steps to hybridisation or testing” in every series in which it participates.
Mark Rushbrook, global director for Ford Performance Motorsports, agreed that an intermediate step could involve moving to a “low carbon fuel or a responsible fuel” while still utilising a combustion engine.
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