In the accelerating quest for greater fuel efficiency, boosting engines--with turbos or superchargers--is one way to pull more power out of a given displacement. Traditionally, superchargers have been ...

The ever-growing need to make smaller, more efficient engines has forced car manufacturers to rethink the traditional turbos and superchargers. On road cars, the traditional way to get more power out ...

Toyota is working on a forced induction system that has an electric supercharger and a turbocharger. We know Toyota has been developing electric superchargers from a previous patent application for a ...

A few years ago, Volvo created a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that made 450 hp with the help of two conventional turbochargers and one electric turbo. It hasn't yet gone into production, but it's ...

When it comes to boosting engine performance, car enthusiasts often debate between superchargers and turbochargers. Both ...

Electrification and advanced transmissions could bring the blower back. Turbocharging has taken over the world. Automakers ...

When Kawasaki strapped a supercharger to a Ninja, everyone went wild for the most powerful production motorcycle ever put together. Now, with a new EICMA release, it seems Honda wants to update that ...

Audi’s upcoming RS5 might be the first gasoline-powered model from the four-ringed brand that receives a 48-Volt electric system. The technical solution we are referencing debuted on the SQ7, which is ...

The system uses an electric motor that helps get the turbo impeller up to speed quickly and keep it there even when not under load for peak responsiveness. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally ...

Every fortune-teller in the car biz knows that the engine downsizing, down-speeding, and boosting efforts expended to date are but the tip of a metaphorical iceberg that's expanding even as the ...

Earlier this month, Mazda announced plans to put a revolutionary Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) gas engine into production by 2019. Dubbed Skyactiv-X, this engine won't use its spark ...