Does pressing the pedal mechanically/hydraulically move spinning magnets on the hub nearer other magnets to create electricity?
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You have electric motors connected to the wheels, they don’t do anything, just sit there.
When you apply pressure to the breaking pedal, you reverse the motors aka you turn them into generators which then use the wheel rotation to create electricity (basically as any other way we create electricity)
This created electricity is then send to a battery to be stored.
When you release the breaking pedal, you reverse the system again from generators to motors, then if you want, you can deliver power stored in the battery to the motors which then deliver it to the wheels which makes you go faster.
KERS Is pretty outdated in F1 and it’s not used anymore. Though they use something similar called MGU-K (and MGU-H which operates in a different principle and F1 is anyway ditching it, if not already have, haven’t followed up with F1 in years.)
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