Why can’t we use the heat from combustion to make cars more efficient?

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Can we use the heat to boil water to turn a turbine? Or would the water never cool enough to be used again?

What about using the heat to create pressure and then releasing the pressure to help move the fly wheel?

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It’s possible. Formula 1 cars use a component called the MGU-H to turn exhaust heat into electrical energy that can be deployed through the hybrid motor. The reason it hasn’t been adopted by scale is that it’s extremely expensive to do.

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