More exotic solutions include flywheel energy storage (converting mechanical to electrical energy, and vice versa).
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It converts kinetic energy gathered while braking into electrical energy and stores it in a flywheel.
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Flywheel charges just 60 cents for each ride and drivers get all of the metered fare.
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Flywheel now has more than 2, 000 taxis nationwide and one-third of the taxis in San Francisco, he says.
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The key is to make the flywheel as light as possible and to encase it in a vacuum chamber.
Flywheel also plans to move into international markets, where taxis generally operate similarly.
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For a city where spinning devotees battle over spots in SoulCycle and Flywheel classes, this is something of a surprise.
By helping people find cabs, Flywheel increases the usage of the cabs on it system by an average of 20%.
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Porsche North America CEO Detlev Von Platen says the flywheel technology used in both represents the future of Porsche.
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Companies like Intuit, jetBlue, American Express, Cintas and many others have discovered the power of what we at Bain call the Promoter Flywheel.
Flywheel technology uses two electric motors at the front axle to supplement the engine (in this case, a 480 horsepower rear-mounted engine).
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The V8 engine gets 767 total horsepower using flywheel technology at the wheels and a six-speed racing transmission with paddle-shifters at the steering wheel.
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The other flywheel system, developed by Automotive Hybrid Power, also in Britain, for the Williams F1 team, runs at 100, 000 revolutions a minute.
The Flywheel change comes as large changes are affecting the industry, and Flywheel may be feeling the pressure from the many competitors in the space.
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Site speed reduces the momentum in the flywheel of network effects.
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Your correspondent has long been a fan of flywheel storage systems.
At least two companies have developed flywheel-based regenerative-braking systems for cars.
Asked about others such as Uber, Sidecar and Lyft, he says taxis already have a market that is large and will be big enough for Flywheel.
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The GT3 R Hybrid's flywheel device was built by Formula 1 constructor Williams as part of F1's pursuit of Kinetic Energy Storage Systems (KERS), which began in 2009.
Cabulous, the mobile cab-hailing app, is rebranding as Flywheel and opening up its platform to allow rides from cars other than taxis, such as licensed black cars.
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The carbon-fibre flywheel in the KERS produced in Britain by Flybrid Systems , in conjunction with transmission specialists Xtrac and Torotrak, spins at 60, 000 revolutions a minute.
Flywheel works with taxi fleets, integrating to their dispatch systems.
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All that was needed to make a mechanical energy-storage system was a good enough rotational seal, so the flywheel could spin freely inside a vacuum chamber with no air resistance.
With a wheel off design and super flywheel, the iPhone connected bike trainer is engineered to produce an ultra-realistic road feel, equivalent to the inertia of an actual rider on the road.
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To be successful at a high level, and to do so with an uncanny consistency as Boise State does, an organization must prevent the proverbial flywheel from stalling once it has gained momentum.
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Primitive flywheel-powered buses appeared in petrol-strapped wartime Europe.
The startup is still focusing primarily on taxis, but is adding other types of rides in case there are no taxis available or in case people want a different type of ride, says Flywheel CEO Steve Humphreys.
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While I am a strong believer in the flywheel principal as a general practice, there are also times when radical change is in fact the critical element needed to move a company to the next level of success.
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Williams are testing a flywheel kinetic energy recovery system - the device that stores energy under braking - and have set up a company to develop the technology both for Formula One and further applications outside the sport.
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