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Video on hydraulic hybrid BMW

For us performance minded folks, hydraulic hybrids offer a way to recover energy quickly under braking and use it to accelerate up to speed more efficiently than with battery power. It's been used on some city driven delivery trucks and now someone has put it on a (somewhat) performance car:

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