Porsche Examines Hydrogen Engines, Reckons V8 Could Deliver 590 HP, Lap The Nurburgring In 8:20 | Carscoops carscoops
, the turbochargers have to, on the one hand, provide around twice as much air mass as they do in gasoline engines,” said Bevilacqua. “On the other hand, however, the lower exhaust gas temperatures result in a lack of energy for their propulsion on the exhaust side.”to generate the pressure it needed and, after several tests, eventually landed on a system with back-to-back turbos.
To figure out how that performance would translate into a vehicle, the team used the “digital twin,” a simulated vehicle, with the engine in it to estimate how quickly it could get around. Placed in a “luxury-segment reference vehicle with a relatively high total weight of 2,650 kg” , which is about 220 lbs more than the hybrid Cayenne, the vehicle was capable of getting around the famed track in 8:20. For reference, that’s exactly the same time as a 2008 Chevrolet Camaro SS.
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