Surely the MGUK is the best energy to recover? By recovering under braking you lose nothing, but need less cooling on your rear brakes (improving aero). If you're relying more on the H recovery you'll be limiting your engine power more as well; backpressure is the enemy of power.godlameroso wrote:Then you create a better flowing turbine to manage that temperature difference. There's enough energy in the exhaust to run the MGU-H -> MGU-K at half power(60kW) and charge the batteries at the same time, it's believed Mercedes can do 80kW + battery charging.
And this actually makes a lot of sense. We all sing praises of Mercedes chassis, but there's something most people overlook. Relying less on the MGU-K to harness electricity has a big influence on chassis performance, particularly under braking.
I think a big part of their advantage is their chassis is designed around using less MGU-K and more MGU-H to harvest electricity.
*Merry Christmas everyone.
There's a lot of assertions in this forum without any real evidence behind them...