Hybrid?

Chris Lesperance

Chris Lesperance

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Not sure if we have any hybrid experts out there. I've begun early work on converting Vitor Souza Motorsports Modding's GTR2 Nissan ZEOD to rF2.
https://vsmodding.wixsite.com/home/nissan-zeod

It is very early days. I'm just trying to figure how to get the electric and ICE to work as described in the videos below. Currently if I have both motors built in the Physics Spreadsheet. ICE by it's self is at the right HP and performance. The electric seems to be built with the correct electric HP. The issue is with them together.

I'm not sure if rF2 allows for it. Based on the videos, I should be able to switch from full ICE to full electric and mix and match between. The video describes that the car doesn't have a starter motor. It runs on electric then bump starts the ICE. Similar to what the LMDH cars do today. I'm haven't been able to get the the car to run exclusively on electric. The ICE motor needs to be running.
I'm also running into CTD and odd issues if I have the ICE engine mixture to 0. If I get he ICE engine mixture to say 0.4, it will turn off the engine, but the electric power doesn't power the car.

Just wondering if anybody knows anything or have any thoughts. I know not many cars utilize the hybrid systems.


 
Don't think it's been made so you can switch between them. It's either one or the other, or both. However, what you have mentioned with essentially having a very low engine mixture could work as a workaround to have a feature where you switch between them. I've never tested making an only electric motor, so I can't really speak on if it works or not. From what I can see in the physics sheet, you turn off the ICE in Engine - B7.
 
We've made an only electrical Engine for our Palatov D2 by using the "old" Physics Spreadsheet.
In the latest Spreadsheet we have separated Tabs for the additional electrical Engine and we also have the usual Lack of Information about how it has to be set up.
At least i haven't found anything official about it.
And i also don't know if the necessary Code is integrated in rF2 already, that the Combination of the 2 Engines works as it does in Le Mans Ultimate.
In the latest Spreadsheet it looks a bit more like it has to be used in Combination with the Push to Pass Function, so that it is not a real Hybrid Engine Combination.
 
This is what I wrote on Forum in the last April 2025, when some people were asking for a “realistic” F1 hybrid engine, saying that was possible to use in RF2 electric engine together with the thermic unit.

No
You have no chance to have this system ( electric ) automatically shared for all the race….and in the real life, things are quite different….and anyway, drivers are not needed to push any button for the electric regeneration.
This system is controlled by an electronic unit from the pitlane. Drivers may modulate engine mapping….may also have a Pass button, increasing temporarily the power by this.
But surely there is no Push to pass button related to the Electric system.
In my opinion, it should be just a great result for realism if in RF2 it was possible to keep always working ( for all the practice, qualify and race ) the RF2 Kers without the need of a button…but I don’t know how to get it.
And probably this is the “key point” on which S 397 Team worked for LMU.
 
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