If you are an automotive enthusiast, there’s a good chance you already know what a turbocharger is and how it works - you may even own a turbocharged vehicle. However, not all enthusiasts are created ...

Electric power isn't just for driving the wheels of a car. Audi uses electric turbochargers to defeat dreaded turbo lag and make engines more responsive. Here's how it works. Conventional ...

How does it work? Like supercharging, turbocharging is another method of developing more power from an engine without increasing displacement. The key difference between the two technologies is how ...

It used to be that turbochargers were mostly used on high-performance sports cars. They still give go-fast cars an extra boost of power, but increasingly, automakers use them on smaller engines to ...

The Turbo gurus at Garrett Motion, once known as AiResearch, have figured out how to harvest the energy in a fuel cell’s hot water-vapor exhaust stream. Legacy auto industry suppliers of mechanical ...

Turbochargers are one of the best methods for extracting more power out of an engine with less total displacement. Unlike a supercharger, which compresses air at the intake stage and runs off a belt ...

Find out about the multi-million-dollar technology that runs today's Formula One cars. It’s generally understood that the more cylinders you have in your engine, the faster your car will be. However, ...

The turbocharger has been around in rallying for a couple of decades now, and years spent honing the art of recycling air back into the engine has led to today's World Rally Cars being some very ...

A 1.6-liter V6 turbo revving at 15,000 rpm with unlimited boost that turns small drops of fuel into 600 horsepower aided by an electrical system that pumps out another 160 electron-charged horses.