There was a time when the V8 reigned supreme. When “There’s no replacement for displacement!” was affixed to every chromed-out muscle car’s bumper. As Bob Dylan once said, though, “The times, they are ...

Unravel the mystery of the first production car with a factory-installed turbocharger, a rarity on the road and in ...

A supercharger is a rotating air pump that’s driven by the engine itself via a belt or chain run off the engine’s crankshaft. Related: What Happens When You Overfill Your Car With Oil? Although it ...

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To understand the benefit of a turbo, we need a refresher on the basics of the combustion process. In any four-stroke combustion engine, the intake sucks clean air through the filtered intake and into ...

For a few years now, Formula 1 engines have used electric turbochargers, with an electric motor attached to the shaft that connects the compressor and turbine wheels. The effect is virtually no turbo ...

Electric motors are undoubtedly becoming a larger and more important element of the automotive propulsion landscape with each passing year. Directly supplying torque to turn the drive wheels is the ...

November 18, 2005 The turbo-charger , which has dominated the development of the internal combustion engine for the last 30 years, turned 100 years old this week. On 16 November 1905 Swiss engineer Dr ...

Baden, Switzerland-headquartered Accelleron has received its ten-thousandth order for its A100-L/A200-L turbocharger series.

Cummins wants the turbo-hydrogen engine to replace the turbodiesel in the trucking industry—at least in Europe. The brand developed a turbocharger called H2 ICE specifically for engines that burn ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The concepts of turbocharging and supercharging are well-known to anyone who loves cramming things into other things, which, of course, is all ...